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Photo #: NH 104520
USS West Virginia (Armored Cruiser # 5)
One of the ship's 6"/50 Mark 8 broadside guns, with a shell
in the left foreground, photographed circa mid-1910.
Photo from the 1909-1924 album of Vice Admiral Olaf M. Hustvedt,
USN (Retired), who was a Midshipman in USS West Virginia
at the time this image was made. Courtesy of Rick Hauck, 2006.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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