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Fort Story coast defense. A tough job for soldiers: shoving the breech block of the giant howitzer into place. The screw threads help the block to withstand millions of foot pounds of pressure caused by the exploding charge

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Fort Story coast defense. A tough job for soldiers: shoving the breech block of the giant howitzer into place. The screw threads help the block to withstand millions of foot pounds of pressure caused by the exploding charge

Fort Story coast defense. It takes plenty of muscle to swab out the inside of one of Fort Story's giant guns after a charge has been fired

Fort Story coast defense. It takes plenty of muscle to swab out the inside of one of Fort Story's giant guns after a charge has been fired

Fort Story coast defense. It takes plenty of muscle to swab out the inside of one of Fort Story's giant guns after a charge has been fired

Fort Story coast defense. It takes plenty of muscle to swab out the inside of one of Fort Story's giant guns after a charge has been fired

Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech on one of Fort Story's sixteen-inch howitzers

Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech on one of Fort Story's sixteen-inch howitzers

Fort Story coast defense. Projectile being loaded into an interrupted-screw type breech at Fort Story, Virginia. With a quarter turn, this breech gives the same sealing effect as twelve turns on a regualr screw

Fort Story coast defense. Soliders of Fort Story, Virginia, load a sixteen-inch howitzer for target practice

Fort Story coast defense. A tough job for soldiers: shoving the breech block of the giant howitzer into place. The screw threads help the block to withstand millions of foot pounds of pressure caused by the exploding charge

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01/01/1942
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