12-INCH BATTERY MENDELL IN COLORBattery Mendell, a 12-inch gun emplacement at Ft. Barry on the Marin coast was caught in action by a coast artillery officer during April 1941. Using his personal movie camera, the enterprising officer shot 8mm movie sequences of this battery during a firing practice.
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ACTION AT THE BREECH
The loading detail places the powder charge and closes the breech in preparing to fire the armament. |
ACTION ON THE GUN AIMMING PLATFORM
As the 12-inch barrel rises before firing, the gun aimmer makes a final check of the range and azimuth. In practice, the actual aimming data is acquired by artillery spotters miles from the gun battery. The data is phoned to a plotting room where aimming calculations are computed. |
ARTILLERY AT THE GOLDEN GATE Find out more about Battery Mendell. The story of the big guns and the troops that manned them in wartime San Francisco is recounted in this 170-page, 170-photo soft-cover book which can be ordered directly from the publisher: $12.95 plus $3.00 postage and handling
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