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Aerial View of USS Manchester in Cloud of Smoke

2015-0431 (untitled)
Accession Number
2015-0431
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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Related Collection
Parks, Lewis S. Papers
Keywords
Korean War, 1950-1953
Ships
Rights

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Credit:
U.S. Navy

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Original caption: Clouds of smoke hang over the USS Manchester as its rapid firing main and secondary batteries blast enemy installations along the Eastern coast of Korea. The picture was taken at the peak of a three day bombardment in which over 3,000 rounds of high capacity projectiles were fired from the ships heavy batteries.
Date(s)
January 1951