FIRST SHOT WILL BE ON TARGET—Ranging their giant guns on those points round the coast at which an invader might attempt a landing, the gunners of Britain’s coastal defences periodically do practice shoots. In this way the gun-crews get to know these particular ranges almost to an inch, and an attempted landing by an enemy would be met with a fire of deadliest accuracy. One of the 9.2in. guns during a shoot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 7
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72FIRST SHOT WILL BE ON TARGET—Ranging their giant guns on those points round the coast at which an invader might attempt a landing, the gunners of Britain’s coastal defences periodically do practice shoots. In this way the gun-crews get to know these particular ranges almost to an inch, and an attempted landing by an enemy would be met with a fire of deadliest accuracy. One of the 9.2in. guns during a shoot. Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 7
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