From the March 20, 2012, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "USS Pennsylvania, damaged at Pearl Harbor, may be gone but her guns survive" by Torsten Ove.
After the battering the battleship USS Pennsylvania took at Pearl Harbor, it was repaired and took part in battles at Guam, Saipan, Palau, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. It ended its career being scuttled in the South Pacific in 1948.
Two of its 14-inch diameter main battery gun barrels had been at a Navy depot since the ship's 1944 refit.
The guns now will be going to a Centre County museum is volunteers can raise $50,000. The gun barrels, weighing 66 tons each will be mounted on a concrete cradle outside the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg with $200,000 in state money.
So far, the Friends of the Pennsylvania Military Museum have raised $50,000.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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