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Close up view of the main guns in USS Iowa’s number 3 turret flanked by 20mm Oerlikons while at anchor in Chesapeake Bay, United States, 13 May 1943 [Colorized by WW2DB]

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Caption     Close up view of the main guns in USS Iowa’s number 3 turret flanked by 20mm Oerlikons while at anchor in Chesapeake Bay, United States, 13 May 1943 [Colorized by WW2DB] ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Chesapeake Bay, United States
Date 13 May 1943
Photographer    Unknown
Colorization Note   This photograph was originally a black and white photograph; the colorized version presented here was a derivative work by WW2DB. The colors used in this version were speculative, and could be significantly different from the real colors.

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Colorized Date 24 Feb 2023
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
Identification Code   BuAer 238848
 
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Photos on Same Day 13 May 1943
 
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Licensing  Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government".

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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 1,879 x 1,319 pixels



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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Steve Voorhees says:
28 Oct 2015 03:04:30 PM

The captioned should be revised to indicate a main turret number other than 4 since Iowa had only 3 main gun turrets. It looks like the aft turret.
2. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
28 Oct 2015 05:18:24 PM

Mr. Voorhees:
I rechecked my original source (The Nimitz Library at the Naval Academy) and they caption this as the Number 3 turret. This was entirely my error in transcription. Thank you for calling attention to it and good catch!

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