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280mm Heavy Motorized Gun M65 Marker detail - left photo
Photographer: Lee Hattabaugh
Taken: November 15, 2011
Caption: 280mm Heavy Motorized Gun M65 Marker detail - left photo
Additional Description: The mushroom cloud formation from history's first atomic artillery shell rises in background after being fired from this 280-millimeter gun at Frenchman's Flat, Nevada, on 25 May 1953. The atomic shell burst in the air with precision accuracy.
Submitted: November 5, 2012, by Lee Hattabaugh of Capshaw, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p225465
File Size: 0.280 Megabytes

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