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Post by T2 on Aug 9, 2018 6:36:16 GMT 8
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Post by T2 on Aug 9, 2018 6:42:16 GMT 8
If you recall the Canon is laying in the position under the south east corner of the QM Machine shop
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Post by T2 on Aug 9, 2018 6:45:15 GMT 8
In this capture you can see the rail goes right into the QM machine shop so therefore the cannon would have been brought down by rail and gone no further than its present day position.
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Post by oozlefinch on Aug 13, 2018 14:03:30 GMT 8
With respect to the gun tube located at Bottomside, we will probably never know why it is there. It could be that it was taken from one of the batteries to be sent back to the U.S. to be relined, and the war interrupted its trip. There are a number of extra gun tubes at various batteries, e.g., Hearn, Crockett, Wheeler, Grubbs and Morrison, and this could have been another. Maybe one of our other members who has a collection of gun cards, can tell us to which battery this one was originally assigned. As to being an old gun tube, I doubt it is much older, if any, than any of the other gun tubes on the island. We can only SWAG as to why the breech block is not attached, but, it could have been removed prior to shipment and was in the Ordance Repair Ship. As to why the Japanese didn't scrap the gun tube, it weighed over 100,000 lbs, or 50 tons. It's one thing to cart away a 155 GPF, or a 3" gun, quite another to try and move a monster like that. That, plus the Japanese were using POW's to collect all of the scrap so their ability to collect large pieces was probably limited. Personally, I've always wondered why more of the heavy artillery shells were not taken away and recycled. While heavy, they would have been much easier to transport.
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