Re: [MV] Slightly OT but some MV content - Gunnery range finder from WW II Cruiser

From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 16:01:22 PDT


--- rertman@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> CAlling all black shoe Navy historians.
>
> OK, folks time to dig into old archives.
>
> Looking for the mounting stanchion for a gunnery
> optical range finder from a WW II cruiser.
>
> The range finder is a Bausch & Lomb Coincidence
> Range Finder Mark 57, built in 1943.
> It was mounted on the USN cruiser U;.S.S. Phoenix in
> 1943.
+++++++++++
Go down to Argentina and wait by the shore, maybe
she'll rise again,....... from her ashes?

The Graf Spee is down in that location somewhere, too.

Joe

        
                
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