Image: USS Indiana bombarding Kamaishi 14 July 1945

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Description: Bombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945: The U.S. Navy battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16"/45 guns at the Kamaishi plant of the Japan Iron Company, 400 km north of Tokyo. A second before, USS South Dakota (BB-57), from which this photograph was taken, fired the initial salvo of the first naval gunfire bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. The superstructure of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. The heavy cruiser in the left center distance is either USS Quincy (CA-71) or USS Chicago (CA-136). Due to the Measure 22 camouflage, the cruiser is probably Quincy, as Chicago is only known to have been painted in Measure 21.
Title: USS Indiana bombarding Kamaishi 14 July 1945
Credit: Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-6035 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author: U.S. Navy
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Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II

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