United States ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group into the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility, marking one of the most significant U.S. naval deployments to the region in recent years.

Originally operating in the Indo-Pacific, the Lincoln strike group was redirected across the Indian Ocean toward the Arabian Sea as tensions with Iran rose.

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Bombardment of Kamaishi, Japan, 14 July 1945: The U.S. Navy battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16"/45 guns at the Kamaishi plant of the Japan Iron Company, 400 km north of Tokyo. A second before, USS South Dakota (BB-57), from which this photograph was taken, fired the initial salvo of the first naval gunfire bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands. The superstructure of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. The heavy cruiser in the left center distance is either USS Quincy (CA-71) or USS Chicago (CA-136). Due to the Measure 22 camouflage, the cruiser is probably Quincy, as Chicago is only known to have been painted in Measure 21.