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Massive 5 Inch Gun Mount! LTC Eugene Chu Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Kim Patterson Maj (Join to see) MAJ Ken Landgren CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana Capt Dwayne Conyers MSG Stan Hutchison MSgt Michael Bischoff SSgt Richard Kensinger SSG Robert Mark Odom PO1 Tony Holland PO1 Brian Austin SP5 Dennis Loberger SFC Jo Ann Klawitter SPC Nancy Greene SrA John Monette A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney SPC Kevin Ford
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When I got a tour of the USS Missouri the inside of those gun mounts probably impressed me more than anything else.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen We still have 5 Inch Guns but they are fully automated therefore just enough room to put hands into them for maintenance. I do remember when I started there was still One Man 5 inch Guns but that and I are Ancient History!
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MSG Thomas Currie
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - there are some of us who still remember the 5"/38 and the later 5"/54 although I was fond of the 3"/50
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Those 5"/38's were used on everything from battleships down to destroyers. On a Destroyer those were the big guns, on a battleship they were "Secondary" armament and a giant step down from the 16" guns.
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