Description of 20 mm guns and mounts deployed on U.S. naval vessels, on merchantmen, and at many shore stations in WWII fromNaval Ordnance and Gunnery, NAVPERS 16116, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Training Division, May 1944. 20 MM. GUN AND MOUNTS 7C1. General.The 20 mm. gun assembly, ...
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Replying to a question Conseil asked me as to the time these colossal barriers took to be raised, I astonished him much by telling him that learned men reckoned it about the eighth of an inch in a hundred years. Towards evening Clermont-Tonnerre was lost in the distance, and the route ...
The Smith & Wesson Model 18 is a 4-inch barreled, double action revolver, with adjustable open sights. It is chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge and holds six cartridges in its cylinder. It is essentially a .22 caliber version of the M15 "Combat Masterpiece" revolver. It was popu...
which resulted in the building of the Leander-class of light cruisers. Despite the use of welding in their construction when completed these cruisers actually emerged about two percent overweight. With their eight 6-inch gun layout and an effective anti-aircraft battery they were easily recognizable...
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While the head of the Presidential detail, Roy Kellerman, told the Warren Commission he'd observed an entry wound about the width of a "little finger" in Kennedy's "hairline" an inch and a half to two inches below the hole on the back of the head on display at the end of the autop...
Bernie then went out to the cruiser located just offshore and helped them spot the entrance to the cave where this gun was lo- cated and the Naval guns quickly shut down that heavy MG. Bill McKenna and Joe Froelich (who represented Austria as a downhill skier in the 1932 Olym- pics)...
In this class of warship it is probable that the 12-inch weapon will be abandoned in favor of the new and heavier gun that has been projected. The recent gunnery trials with the "Dreadnought" have confirmed the prevailing theories that it is impossible to render this class of warship more ...
Themachinegun,capableoffiringupto600roundsaminute,wasincommonuse.Itwascapableofinflictingheavycasualtiesontheattackers. Warfareatthebeginningofthecentury:atsea Armour-platingproducedvesselsprotectedbysteelmorethanafootthick. Battleshipshadrotating,armouredgun-turretsand15inchguns. HMSDreadnoughtwascompletedin1906.It...