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Old November 26th, 2005, 04:08 AM
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Bill I did read that they incorporated some guns from the Arizona and possibly other battlewagons that were sunk on Pearl Harbor Day into shore batteries. They also said that they were salvaged after the war for their metal. Maybe one of the military museums here will have something about it.
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