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6' gun on NEW YORK (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Kilted Cowboy said:

  Perhaps there was some fudging to intimidate potential enemies, all sources I find list these as 5 inch guns, she would have had 21 of them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%22/51_caliber_gun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_(BB-34) www.acepilots.com/ships/new_york.html

• Andrey Timofeev said:

  wow!

WYOMING in dock (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Kilted Cowboy said:

  BB=32, one of the many ships that took part in the Vera Cruz operations we have seen recently here. The markings on her stern seem to indicate she is under construction still in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1912. www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-w/bb32.htm