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Topic: Two names my dad told me from PT331 |
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Wayne Traxel |
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Posted on: Dec 12, 2013 - 8:20am
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Remember reading about an alternate mounting base for the 40 mm from a deck gun many years ago. Located the info in Volume 2 of Allied Coastal Forces of WW-2 by John Lambert & Al Ross in 1993, Page 224. "US 40mm Mark 3 gun". The first part of the article notes the lower height of the 40mm's installed on 77'er gunboats PT's 59,60 and 61 + the later bow 40mm mount on PT-174. The article, by Al Ross, I believe, describes the Mark 3, as a single 40mm navalised version of the standard manually-operated US Army M-1 anti-aircraft weapon. Al also went on to mention the this mount could be directly bolted to a standard 3 inch/50 deck gun foundation. I'm researching Ron 21's PT-323 and believe it's 40 may have the same base.
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