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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