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USS Iowa (BB-61)
DN-ST-85-05379 (Color) -- Fires a full broadside of nine 16" /50 and six 5" /38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984. Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.
Photographed by PHAN J. Alan Elliot.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Naval Historical Center -- Online Library of Selected Images of USS Iowa

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