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

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 ww2dbase
Photographer    Unknown
Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
Identification Code   BuAer 238848
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Iowa   Main article  Photos  
Photo Size 1,879 x 1,319 pixels
Photos on Same Day 13 May 1943
Photos at Same Place Chesapeake Bay, United States
Added By David Stubblebine
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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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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