DN-SC-88-01042: An Iranian oil platform, Rostam, is set afire after being shelled by four US Navy destroyers during Operation Nimble Archer. The shelling was a response to an alleged recent Iranian missile attack on a reflagged Kuwaiti super tanker. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/sahMzG
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Read More →A port quarter view of the guided missile frigate USS STARK (FFG 31) listing to port after being struck by an Iraqi-launched Exocet missile, May 17, 1987. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives: Online Public Access. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/siWPLi
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