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Details on the guns coming to the Museum.
On the fateful day of December 7, 1941, the battleship gun 22 (L3) was the left hand gun on turret 1. (The lower turret in the photo below.) On that same day, gun 28 (L2) was the right hand gun on turret 2. (The upper turret in the photo.) Both guns were left on the ship during the overhaul in 1942 but were replaced in the 1945 overhaul. The guns were relined and sent to the gun barrel storage yard in Dahlgren, VA, where they have rested for the past 50 years. They were "rediscovered" during a recent inventory, and the Museum contacted about acquiring them for display.
The photo below shows the guns in storage in Dahlgren, VA. The gun second from the left is 22 (L4) and the fourth from left is 28 (L3).
Note: The designation of the gun number followed by the parenthetical references the gun and the number of times it was relined. So, 22 (L4) indicates that gun #22 was relined four times.
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