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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 99641

Twin 4"/50 Gun Mount


View of the mount's breech end, showing the guns' breech blocks open, circa the 1920s.
Location is probably on the midships starboard side of USS Hovey (DD-209) or USS Long (DD-209).

Donation of Ronald W. Compton, from the collection of his grandfather, Chief Machinist's Mate William C. Carlson, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 October 2004