Mr. Fillman,
I would sure be interested in talking to him since I have been in the
Batteries ARIZONA and PENNSYLVANIA salved from the after 14 in turrets of
USS ARIZONA.
Thanks -
S/F,
Stew Rayfield
Major USMC (Ret)
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From: fv74@altavista.net [mailto:fv74@altavista.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:08 PM
To: mil-veh@skylee.com
Subject: Re: [MV] USS Arizona and the Belgrano
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
45 MB
---- 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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