Chuck wrote:
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The 4th picture above, looking back over the quarter deck from port side superstructure, shows the last 40mm Bofor on the aft end of superstructure numbered 12. The one immediately behind it on the quarterdeck is numbered 20.
This suggest the numbering on each side is not sequentially odd or even.
Once again, I have to disagree - this photo confirms the numbering is all EVEN on the port side (and would be odd on stbd). The only question would be
how the individual mounts were numbered. This would be possibly answered if we had a deck plan of the ship where the mounts are actually numbered.
Going back to the small clipped plan Jim Slade provided several posts ago, Turret 2's 40mm mount is #3, The port side 40mm is #4, the stbd. side 40mm is #5. I am going to guess that the (2) 40mm mounts up forward of Turret 1 are #1 (stbd. side) and #2 (port side). Working aft from 40mm mounts #4 & #5 we could probably with
some degree of accuracy determine the remaining 40mm mount numbers.
Edit - I have just retrieved my packed up TFD MISSOURI Plan Book and can verify that SOME of the 20mm and 40mm mounts in the drawings are numbered, but not all of them. In a couple locations the numbering includes in parenthesis - "(BB62-BB64)", indicating that IOWA had a different numbering scheme. One note is labeled "(BB61-BB64)" indicating similar numbering on all 4 ships. Unfortunately, the Plan Book does NOT include an overall plan view of the ship showing all the gun mounts, etc.
Hope this helps,