400 TONS OF GUN—Biggest piece of mobile artillery on Pacific Coast rode in dedication parade of Los Angeles' new Union Station. Gun and carriage weigh 400 tons and can move only en a flatcar. It's 95 feet long and fires a 14-inch shell. Based at San Pedro.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 132, 6 March 1940, Page 3
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47400 TONS OF GUN—Biggest piece of mobile artillery on Pacific Coast rode in dedication parade of Los Angeles' new Union Station. Gun and carriage weigh 400 tons and can move only en a flatcar. It's 95 feet long and fires a 14-inch shell. Based at San Pedro. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 132, 6 March 1940, Page 3
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