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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 80528

USS California (BB-44)


View of the battleship's forward superstructure and 14" gun turrets, in 1938.
Note gunfire concentration dial just below the fire-control top, rangefinders atop the pilothouse and conning tower, and two .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine gun mountings just forward of the armored conning tower.

Courtesy of Howard F. Ailes, 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 June 2000