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RTSigma · « **Reply #1 on:** April 16, 2005, 01:41:17 AM »

Well, its not Joe Nameth, but is it a 4.5cm Deck gun on a destroyer?

I think they may be British.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 16, 2005, 12:48:05 PM »

5" 25 caliber deck gun.

Furball · « **Reply #3 on:** April 16, 2005, 04:11:25 PM »

what you dont want to see as you surface your u-boat...

Blooz · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2005, 09:24:12 AM »

8 inch naval gun?

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2005, 11:04:15 AM »

"mine is bigger"

brady · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2005, 12:11:28 PM »

It is, 4"/50.

It is, USS Ward.

frank3 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2005, 04:10:35 PM »

Nice one (as usual) Brady

Amazing how often people can guess these things, I wouldn't have a clue!

'euhm, tiger tank?'

MiloMorai · « **Reply #8 on:** April 17, 2005, 05:19:33 PM »

USS Ward (DD-139)

"A Shot for Posterity -- The USS Ward's number three gun and its crew-cited for firing the first shot the day of Japan's raid on Hawaii. Operating as part of the inshore patrol early in the morning of December 7, 1941, this destroyer group spotted a submarine outside Pearl Harbor, opened fire and sank her. Crew members are R.H. Knapp - BM2c - Gun Captain, C.W. Fenton - Sea1c - Pointer, R.B. Nolde - Sea1c - Trainer, A.A. De Demagall - Sea1c - No. 1 Loader, D.W. Gruening - Sea1c - No. 2 Loader, J.A. Paick - Sea1c - No. 3 Loader, H.P. Flanagan - Sea1c - No. 4 Loader, E.J. Bakret - GM3c - Gunners Mate, K.C.J. Lasch - Cox - Sightsetter." (quoted from the original 1942-vintage caption)
This gun is a 4"/50 type, mounted atop the ship's midships deckhouse, starboard side.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.