From the October 1, 2012, Huffington Post, San Francisco "WWII Gun in San Francisco" Weapon Finds New Home in Marin Highlands."
A 16-inch gun from the USS Missouri which was on the ship when the Japanese surrendered is to be installed on a cliff at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
The 68-foot-long, 236,000 pound gun will be painted and displayed at the Battery Townsley fortification in the Golden gate National recreation Area. It made a two-day trip from the naval weapons station at Hawthorne, Nevada.
The gun was one of three on the turret that have long since been removed. It could fire a 2,100 pound shell to a 25-mile distance.
The battery and another one like it at Fort Funston became models for other ones planned for defense on the east and west coasts of the United States during the war.
Battery Townsley fired its guns for the first time in 1940 during practice.
--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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