During our visit to Battery Townsley today, we thought, "What this place really needs is a 16" gun!"
Well, as it turns out, that canon pad won't be empty too much longer. A 16 inch gun that originally graced the USS Missouri was saved from the scrapheap and it will be making the trip from Hawthone NV to the left coast later this month.
The 120 ton barrel will be making the trip on a rig smaller (?!) than the one that hauled
Michael Heizer's 340 ton rock to the LA MOA earlier this year. But the gun's road trip will be three times as long. (311 vs 105 miles). Any way you look at it, that's one helluva road trip.