File:USS Helena (CA-75) firing 8-inch guns.jpg

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English: The United States Navy heavy cruiser USS Helena (CA-75) bombards enemy forces ashore on the w:Korean Peninsula with her 8-inch (203-mm) 55-caliber guns during the w:Korean War.
Date August 1950
Source Scanned from Utz, Curtis A., Assault From the Sea: The Amphibious Landing at Inchon, w:Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington , D.C., 2000, ISBN 0-945274-27-0, p. 15. Additional descriptive information from Alexander, Joseph H., Fleet Operations in a Mobile War: September 1950-June 1951, Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington , D.C., 2000, ISBN 0-945274-45-9, p. 8.
Author United States Navy photo 421462

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