USS Arizona gun turret
May 4, 2023 18:02:34 #
Taken from the Arizona Memorial in 2008. The original image was very small and had to be upsized quite a lot just for this.
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jackm1943 wrote:
Taken from the Arizona Memorial in 2008. The original image was very small and had to be upsized quite a lot just for this.
May 4, 2023 19:30:44 #
Actually this is a turret barbette with ring on the stern that the #3 turret rested and rotated on. Weight is what held them on the barbettes.
The turrets with guns, except the #1 turret & guns and wreckage of #2 were removed and used as coastal defense guns or replacements on other ships. The smaller gun turrets and other parts and gear were also removed and made use of during the war. Basically they cut the ship down to the water line in the process. 1 turret and guns are still on the hulk, #2 turrets guns were refurbished and used to rebuild the USS Nevada, #3 and #4 became coast defense mounts and were scrapped after the war. The smaller guns/turrets were put to similar uses.
Here is what the ship looked like before the salvage operations. That complete turret with guns is the #3 turret.
I hope I am not offending you, but as a retired history teacher I often feel obliged to comment on things like this.
The turrets with guns, except the #1 turret & guns and wreckage of #2 were removed and used as coastal defense guns or replacements on other ships. The smaller gun turrets and other parts and gear were also removed and made use of during the war. Basically they cut the ship down to the water line in the process. 1 turret and guns are still on the hulk, #2 turrets guns were refurbished and used to rebuild the USS Nevada, #3 and #4 became coast defense mounts and were scrapped after the war. The smaller guns/turrets were put to similar uses.
Here is what the ship looked like before the salvage operations. That complete turret with guns is the #3 turret.
I hope I am not offending you, but as a retired history teacher I often feel obliged to comment on things like this.
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robertjerl wrote:
Actually this is a turret barbette with ring on th... (show quote)
Thank you very much for that information Robert. I had assumed this is what the actual turret was sitting on but didn't know the correct names of the equipment. I didn't know that the guns were salvaged and used. Thanks again, definitely not offended. I toured the USS North Carolina many years ago and we actually got to go inside one of the big turrets. I couldn't believe the number of sailors they crammed into that thing.
JackM
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jackm1943 wrote:
Thank you very much for that information Robert. I had assumed this is what the actual turret was sitting on but didn't know the correct names of the equipment. I didn't know that the guns were salvaged and used. Thanks again, definitely not offended. I toured the USS North Carolina many years ago and we actually got to go inside one of the big turrets. I couldn't believe the number of sailors they crammed into that thing.
JackM
JackM
Yes the Navy has experience at cramming in lots of people and the Army also. My company went to Vietnam on a fast attack transport built for WW II, about 2500 of us between Army and Marines. The crew considered it to be a light load. The trip to Vietnam before us they hauled over 5000 South Korean troops to Vietnam and even that was not a max load, close, but not max. We got a generous 10 minutes per shift to eat, the Koreans had 5 minutes.
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