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80-G-14940: Battle of the Atlantic: Weapons: K-Gun

<p>80-G-14940: Navigating USS PC-556. Depth charges onboard. As the orders come over the earphones, a Coast Guardsman takes his wrench and sets the “ash can” on the K-Gun which weighs 465 pounds and carries 300 pounds of deadly TNT, October 8, 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/20).</p>
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Caption: Battle of the Atlantic: Weapons: K-Gun. Navigating USS PC-556. Depth charges onboard. As the orders come over the earphones, a Coast Guardsman takes his wrench and sets the “ash can” on the K-Gun which weighs 465 pounds and carries 300 pounds of deadly TNT, October 8, 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/20).
Accession #: 80-G-14940
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