PA State Military Museum

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Went here last week. Took me a bit of time to organize photos. Not a lot there but some things really interested me. They have the only two surviving barrels from the USS Pennsylvania Battleship on display. The third was converted into a test barrel for firing nuclear warheads of all things. I thought these were lost when they sank the battleship after the Bikini atoll test bombings, but those barrels were off the Oklahoma. These barrels were on the ship until her last refitting near the end of the war when they were replaced with those of the Oklahoma as they were shot out. They also have one of the ships two bells which surprised me because the other is at Penn State University outside the ROTC building. I had to go there to make sure it was still there. I passed it every day going to class.