Sixteen Inch
Guns
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A sixteen inch AP
Projectile
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The boy is touching a fragment of a projectile the
Massachusetts fired in anger, recovered from the Vichy French
Battleship Jean Bart. The "wall" behind the shell is Turret 3.
Note the cable wrapped five times around the bottom of the turret,
not quite the thickness of the boy's leg. This was used if the
Massachusetts had to tow another ship, or if she needed to be towed
herself.
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Projectile and
gun
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Another 16 inch shell, shown just beneath the aft turret's right
gun.
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Turret three again, from
the rear.
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