Steve
I do not know what happened to the guns, but I spent three hours listening to Harold Diffenderfer who was stationed on Hawaii during the war and was involved in the shore defense gun installation. He said they used the turrets from the Arizona and mounted them on the coast. When they test fired the guns, they would receive bills from the local hotels for broken glass and china. They would shoot at targets towed about a quarter of a mile behind a power boat. He said one time a shell hit the tow cable and ripped the transom out of the tow boat and subsequently sank it. Harold is still around and I may be able to give out his E-mail address if he OK's it. I will ask him if he knows what happened to the guns.
Dave Fillman
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---- you wrote:
> At 11:11 AM 7/2/00 -0700, Gary Pavone wrote:
> >The Arizona's superstructure was removed because it was a hazard. The deck
> >guns were removed because it was thought that they could be used as shore
> >defense weapons. This was never done.
>
> Not quite true; the new batteries made up of salvaged guns were in fact test
> fired right at the end of the war. My question is: what happened to them?
>
> Steve Allen
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