If you've had to rebarrel a Springfield, Enfield, or M-1, you know it takes planning, technical expertise, and some tender loving care.

But moving the barrel on a battleship is a whole other matter. My neighbor went on a midshipman cruise to Englandicon and Spain aboard the USS New Jersey, one of the four Arizona class battle wagons (New Jersey, Arizona, Missouri and Wisconsin)

"We fired six salvos from each of these 18" monsters. Quite an experience!" he exclaimed, and sent me this post of the Gun Barrels Memorial.

"You can appreciate the size of these Guns by the Equipment required to move them. You don't think the barrels are that big when they were on the battleship, but when you see them hauled down the road you really see how huge they are."

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