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Just back from the East Coast

omahagreg

omahagreg

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Wife and I just returned from our 30th anniversary trip! Went to DC last Saturday, rented a car, drove to Richmond VA to see my sister and her husband. Wife had never seen an ocean, so the BIL plotted us a route back to DC on Monday where we would see the Atlantic. Ended up going on/thru the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel. Just on the north side is a NWR marshy area. Stopped and took a walk. Found out that this was a defensive position to protect the Bay during WW2. Serious guns in play here! Still had one for display!





We walked and walked all over DC from Tuesday thru Friday, coming home today!
 
The projectile in front of the barrel provides some perspective. The projectile if fired from where I live, conceivably, would land across the state line, into Vermont. Something hard to imagine given the weight. Nearby Watervliet Arsenal may have made that barrel as they did make the 16" variety there.
 
Sounds like a fun trip. Someday I would
like to go east and see some of the civil
war battlefields and the ocean also. My
wife is supposed to go to North Carolina
to visit her sister later this year but
that's just a girls weekend so the boys
and get to play unsupervised lol.
 
Saw the same kind of defense bunkers that were in place on the
North Sea in Holland in the area of The Hague.Built by the Germans
for the same purpose.

Kind of a chilling site.

Vito
 
I"ve been across the bridge a few times. The time I crossed at night, looking out to sea, the water at the horizon was a dark blue, while the sky at the horizon had a, neon, blue glow to it. Easy to forget you are so close to the cesspools of DC and Baltimore when you"re running up the peninsula.

It"s a nicer ride if you go to the south end of I295 and run 460 over to 17 instead of taking I64.
 
Sounds like a fun trip. Never knew we had ground
batteries here.

My bucket list includes a trip to
the Smithsonian one of these years...

BTY, just got back from a tour of the Battleship
Texas. They let us see just how those guns were
fired! Amazing feat of training and timing to fire
them! If all were working together, a 1500 lb.
(those are 14") projectile and four 105 lb. bags
of powder could be brought from the lowest level
of the ship, loaded, aimed, and fired every 45
seconds! If all weren't working together... Well,
things could go terribly wrong for all! An OSHA
inspector would have had the BIG ONE! LOL
 
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