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American 4in/50 cal deck gun and crew on the USS Ward,credited with being the crew which fired the first American shots of WW2 when they fired on and sunk a Japanese 2 man sub at Pearl.
This is the #3 gun..

ORIGINAL: m10bob

American 4in/50 cal deck gun and crew on the USS Ward,credited with being the crew which fired the first American shots of WW2 when they fired on and sunk a Japanese 2 man sub at Pearl.
This is the #3 gun..

[X(][X(][X(][X(] How in the world can you know all these stuff!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Amazed[&o]

Obviously he made it up....... OR he has the picture and the caption that goes with it )

I don't know, guys, but that looks a lot more like a 5"51 than a 4" gun. It sure looks like a four-piper though.

No, that's a 4-incher. This was actually a pretty well-known photo back in the day. "A Shot for Posterity -- The USS Ward's number three gun and its crew-cited for firing the first shot the day of Japan's raid on Hawaii. Operating as part of the inshore patrol early in the morning of December 7, 1941, this destroyer group spotted a submarine outside Pearl Harbor, opened fire and sank her. Crew members are R.H. Knapp - BM2c - Gun Captain, C.W. Fenton - Sea1c - Pointer, R.B. Nolde - Sea1c - Trainer, A.A. De Demagall - Sea1c - No. 1 Loader, D.W. Gruening - Sea1c - No. 2 Loader, J.A. Paick - Sea1c - No. 3 Loader, H.P. Flanagan - Sea1c - No. 4 Loader, E.J. Bakret - GM3c - Gunners Mate, K.C.J. Lasch - Cox - Sightsetter."

and thats how they looked back in the late 90´s:

4in/50 cal, it is[:)]

USS Ward, it is[:)]