When USS Missouri bombarded Saddam Hussein's forces in Kuwait in 1991, high-explosive 16-inch shells were chalked with messages of revenge for USS Tripoli and USS Princeton. The two ships had been damaged by Iraqi mines the previous week. #FirepowerFriday
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@NavalInstitute I was there too; USS HAWES (FFG-53); I had 2 beer days on that deployment and we killed a couple of mines that we almost hit 😳