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Bombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945
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Bombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945 |
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| Description |
English: USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16/45 guns at the Kamaishi plant of the Japan Iron Company, 250 miles north of Tokyo. A second before, USS South Dakota (BB-57), from which this photograph was taken, fired the initial salvo of the first naval gunfire bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. The superstructure of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. The heavy cruiser in the left center distance is either USS Quincy (CA-71) or USS Chicago (CA-136) . Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. |
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| Depicted place | Kamaishi | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 14 July 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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80-G-K-6035 |
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| Source | https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/indiana-bb-58/80-G-K-6035.html | ||||||||||||||||||||
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