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USS Iowa (BB-61) 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 ef- fects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.]
Of? cial U.S. Navy Photograph, from the the Department of
Defense Still Media Collection;
Photographed by PHAN J. Alan
Elliott.
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