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| British cruiser HMS Belfast alongside American light carrier USS Bataan off the coast of Korea, 27 May 1952; note Bataan's 40mm twin guns in foreground | USS Archerfish off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 28 May 1952 | USS Sea Cat, circa Jun 1952 | Carrier USS Philippine Sea, destroyer USS Barton, and battleship USS Iowa in the Sea of Japan, 1 Jul 1952 |
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| Decommissioning ceremony of USS Bluegill, 7 Jul 1952; note USS Rock berthed next to her | F9F-2 Panther fighter flying over carriers USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Essex, and USS Princeton off Korea, 1 Aug 1952 | F4U-4 Corsair fighter of US Navy squadron VF-871 being prepared for a mission aboard USS Essex, off Korea, summer or fall 1952 | USS Iowa bombarding communist positions, Korea, 1952 |
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| USS Iowa bombarding communist positions off northern Korea, 10 Sep 1952 | USS Blackfin arriving at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 1952 | USS Blackfin underway, 1952 | USS Iowa underway, circa Oct-Nov 1952 |
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| USS Iowa firing off Koje (now Geoje), Korea, 17 Oct 1952 | USS Iowa entering Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii with her rails manned as she prepares to pass the sunken USS Arizona, 28 Oct 1952 | American cruiser USS Des Moines and French cruiser Montcalm in exercise, Mediterranean Sea, Nov 1952; seen in Jan 1953 issue of US Navy publication All Hands | Tugboats escorting USS Iowa in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Nov 1952 |
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| USS Iowa off Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Nov 1952 | Vice Admiral J.J. Clark escorting Republic of Korea President Syngman Rhee and First Lady Francesca Rhee on the deck of USS Missouri off Pusan (now Busan), South Korea, 20 Nov 1952. | USS Tirante underway off Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 26 Nov 1952 | Beached Type XXVIIB5 submarine, Castricum, Netherlands, 2 Dec 1952, photo 1 of 5 |
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