At 11:11 AM 7/2/00 -0700, Gary Pavone wrote:
>The Arizona's superstructure was removed because it was a hazard. The deck
>guns were removed because it was thought that they could be used as shore
>defense weapons. This was never done.
Not quite true; the new batteries made up of salvaged guns were in fact test
fired right at the end of the war. My question is: what happened to them?
Steve Allen
BTW, all of the completed Iowa class were laid down BEFORE Pearl Harbor,
having been funded two years previously.
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