From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 16:39:27 PST
Watervliet, NY, still very much in business!
Word has it that the Air Force wants to open a new
operation somewhere in NYS soon.
Joe
--- EUGENE PANTANO <TRUKS1@msn.com> wrote:
>
>
> Watervielete ?? Not sure of the spelling...something
> like that --in upstate
> NY...was a famous arsenal for manufacturing cannon
> barrels for over a
> century.. All the big guns were at one time made
> there. When I was on
> Corregidor (where MacArthur said his famous line -
> "I shall return")...All
> the big guns there were made at Watervellete...and
> so marked on each
> muzzle...even the huge seige mortar...
> They are still there today...although we (the US)
> have had our butts kicked
> out of the Philippines... Look up the history of
> that Arsenal..and you
> should find how the barrels were made.. While at
> SUBIC Bay..on the base..the
> spare set of BIG Guns for USS New Jersey were on the
> base...!!! One of them
> had come from USS Arizona...!!
> Gene
>
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