NEW BATTLESHIP GUN
TREMENDOUS HITTING POWER LESSON OF TARAWA (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 12. A new secret battleship gun capable of smashing an 80-ton reinforced concrete block eight feet thick into a crumbled mass with one shot was demonstrated to press lepresentatives. Rear-admiral George Hussey, Chief of Navy Ordnance, explained that the marines who died at Tarawa last year because the navy’s big guns were unable to reduce the enemy’s concrete fortifications, were responsible for the new development. He added: '• We began experiments after Tarawa, and had the answer when we invaded Kwajalein. Now we have even more surprises prepared for the Japanese. They cannot be described, but they include a ‘gun package’ about the size of a 5001 b bomb carried under the wings of an aeroplane on both sides of the fuselage. Each ‘ gun package ’ shoots two machine guns, thus radically increasing the plane’s firepower. The packages may be jettisoned whe nammunition it exhausted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25560, 13 June 1944, Page 5
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