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Unread 03-07-2012, 08:32 PM   #16
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If I'm not mistaken, the number of bags of powder varied with the intended range. I think that the displays showed 3 or 4 of them.

When you tour the battleship, you can go right into the guns, and into the power and shell magazines below decks. The metal surrounding the magazines was steel about 3 feet thick...

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