Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/USS Vincennes launching missile

USS Vincennes launching missile

Original - A missile departs the forward launcher of Vincennes during a 1987 exercise.

Reason

The picture illustrates an important part of US-Iran relations and is one of the best quality pictures taken from the Iran Air Flight 655 incident.

Articles this image appears in

Iran Air Flight 655, William C. Rogers III, Iran-Iraq War

Creator

Dual Freq

• Support as nominator --Secret Saturdays (talk to me) 18:58, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support I'm going to support this, regardless of the major flaws, due to the immense EV it provides Iran Air Flight 655. — raekyT 14:22, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support per Raeky. -- Jack?! 01:26, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support excellent picture of an event most people will never get to witness live. Canada Hky (talk) 21:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support Best --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 13:34, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
• Support per above comments and high EV. Nev1 (talk) 18:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:USS Vincennes launching SM-2MR in 1987.jpg --Elekhh (talk) 22:58, 3 August 2010 (UTC)