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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 100447 Coast Battleship No. 4 (ex-USS Iowa, Battleship # 4) Maneuvering under fire by battleship guns, while in use as a radio-controlled target during Fleet gunnery practice off Panama, circa 22 March 1923. Note projectiles hitting the water on either side of the target. The ship was sunk as a result of damage received in this exercise. Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 470 pixels

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8 April 2003