File:USS Epperson (DD-719) off Korea in 1951.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Epperson (DDE-719) off Korea in 1951. Epperson sailed from Pearl Harbor, Hawai (USA), on 1 June 1951 for service in the Korean War. She screened the carrier task force off Korea, patrolled and bombarded the coast, and joined in hunter-killer exercises off Okinawa before returning to Pearl Harbor on 14 November 1951.
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Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS New Jersey (BB-62) 1950-1951 cruise book available at Navysite.de
Author U.S. Navy. The photo was taken from a Sikorsky HO3S helicopter, assigned to the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62).

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