A gunner's mate applies a coat of grease to the slide cylinder on one of the Mark 28 5-inch/38-caliber guns aboard the battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) during Operation Desert Storm
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD
Country: Persian Gulf
Scene Camera Operator: PHC(Nac) John Kristoffersen
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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gunner
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coat
grease
slide
cylinder
slide cylinder
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guns
battleship
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operation desert storm
persian gulf
high resolution
desert shield
john kristoffersen
us navy ships
us navy
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us national archives
Date
08/08/1991
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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