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[StartQuote] For sometime now I've been trying to resolve PT-59 armament configuration, and just by chance I found my self on a webpage from the NARA JFK Library some time back. As I viewed the page I noticed they had a small image of PT 59, but more importantly this image was much clearer then any of printed versions of this typical shot which could be found in several books. I contact the library by email and about five or six weeks later I got a reply, after several more emails back and forth about the photo(s) of PT 59, I finally had a copy of the image. The photo clearly shows the four gun position on the 59. We could always see the first three single 50 calibre machine guns per side (from the aft to forward), but the image quality near the front of the cabin in the previous images were always very dark and little could be seen. This new image finally gave clues what was there. In the front position are dual 50's in (as Al Ross describes to me, I didn't see it a first) a MK-17 mount and instead of being single guns, were actually duals. I had always assumed there was a gun position but could never resolve the issue, until now. Below is the photo and also a isometric line drawing I had first drawn in 1998, modified in 2007, and now modified again with the twin 50's. Dick . . .
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