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Title: Name This...(1055)
Post by: brady on April 16, 2005, 01:07:06 AM

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(http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_348.jpg)

Title: Name This...(1055)
Post by: RTSigma 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.

Title: Name This...(1055)
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on April 16, 2005, 12:48:05 PM

5" 25 caliber deck gun.

Title: Name This...(1055)
Post by: Furball on April 16, 2005, 04:11:25 PM

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

(http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_348.jpg)

Title: Name This...(1055)
Post by: Blooz on April 17, 2005, 09:24:12 AM

8 inch naval gun?

Title: Name This...(1055)
Post by: spitfiremkv on April 17, 2005, 11:04:15 AM

"mine is bigger"

Title: Name This...(1055)
Post by: brady on April 17, 2005, 12:11:28 PM

It is, 4"/50.

It is, USS Ward.

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Post by: frank3 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?'

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Post by: MiloMorai 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.