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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Just Mortars
Summary: i be confused
Message-ID: <8799@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 13:06:23 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <8753@cbnews.ATT.COM>, Dave Cameron (Consultant writes: 

=In article <8481@cbnews.ATT.COM> welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) writes:
=>12" sounds a bit high.  4.2" was very common.  the only 12" seacoast
 [stuff deleted]
=>at Ft. Desoto park, just south of St. Petersburg, Florida, a 4.2"
=>battery of mortars has been preserved in fairly good condition.
 [stuff deleted]
=>the 4.2" coast defense weapons had no particular
=>provision for recoil, and the stress on the mounting and the
=>concrete foundation underneath must have been tremendous.
 [stuff deleted]
=>are there any mortars with
=>special provisions for recoil, or is this considered an
=>unnecessary frill?

=Well i live here, picnic here, and the mortars [howitzers?] I saw
=were a lot bigger that 4.2" in diameter. 8" ?? 

apparently i got confused somewhere along the line.  i have
been convinced that these suckers really were 12".

(i used to live there -- grew up in st. pete fl.  haven't
seen the installations at ft. desoto in a long time)


richard
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