Inside the Five Inch
Turret
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The four operator's
positions in the turret.
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Again, the five inch turrets were manpower intensive. I don't know
how many loaders were required, but there are positions for four
operators. The left and right positions seemed comperable to those of
the pointers on a quad 40. Both have spotting scopes, gear computers,
and could likely target manually in elivation and azimouth should
contact be lost with primary fire control. I won't pretend to have
figured out the center two positions.
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The right side targeting
computer.
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The Breech of one of the
guns.
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Salt air and tourists are a bad combination.
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