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JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....Volunteers man phone lines in a crisis center set up to arrange lodging for relatives and friends attending the memorial service in honor of the 47 crew members killed in an explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61). The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....GEN. Alfred M. Gray, commandant of the Marine Corps, and William L. Ball, secretary of the Navy, console family members of some of the 47 crew members killed in an explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61). The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....CMDR. Robert Kissinger, executive officer, and CMDR. John Morris, weapons officer, take part in a press conference several days after 47 crew members were killed in an explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61). The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....GUNNER's Mate 3rd Class Kendall Truitt, a crewman of the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61), takes part in a press conference several days after 47 crew members were killed in an explosion aboard the ship. The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....CAPT. Fred P. Moosally, commanding officer of the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61), attends a memorial service for the 47 crew members killed in an explosion aboard the ship. The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and GEN. Alfred M. Gray, commandant of the Marine Corps, stand by as William L. Ball, secretary of the Navy, speaks with the parents of one of the 47 crew members killed in an explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61). The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....GUNNER's Mate 3rd Class Kendall Truitt, a crew member aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61), speaks during a press conference several days after 47 crew members were killed in an explosion aboard the ship. The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....A crew member from the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) is reunited with his family upon the ship's return to home port following an explosion in its No. 2 16-inch gun turret which killed 47 crew members on April 19th. The explosion occurred as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....Members of the media attend a press conference regarding the explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) which killed 47 crew members. The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

JOSN Oscar Sosa Norfolk, Va....Volunteers man phone lines in a crisis center set up to arrange lodging for relatives and friends attending the memorial service in honor of the 47 crew members killed in an explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61). The explosion occurred in the No. 2 16-inch gun turret as the Iowa was conducting routine gunnery exercises approximately 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico on April 19th. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

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Rumsinteriör, familjegrupp sju personer vid bordet. En del av familjen Pettersson, från vänster: Eva Sofia Pettersson (givarens farmor), ej namngiven kvinna, Ingrid Pettersson (givarens faster), Anders Johan Pettersson (givarens farfar), en pojke, Ester Pettersson och Kerstin Pettersson (givarens fastrar).

Two crewmen examine one of the five-bladed inboard screws of the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) while it is in Dry Dock No. 4

Familjeporträtt, nio personer. / Länsmuseet Gävleborg

Chapel services are held on the deck of the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61). During good weather services are held on deck rather than in the ship's chapel

Familjegrupp tre personer. Byggnader i bakgrunden. Aronsson Hallsberg, Örebro, Sverige

Text till bilden: "H. D. Hansson Fossum m. familj".

An aerial port beam view of the Pegasus class patrol combatant missile (hydrofoil) USS ARIES (PHM 5) underway. The ARIES is accompanying the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) en route to San Cristobal, Panama

Oscar Anderson House, 420 M Street, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK

Crew members aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61) wait for motor launches to take them ashore to participate in a civic action program in Puerto Cortes, Honduras

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

The Mark 8 fire control computer in the aft secondarybattery plotting room of the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61)

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