The ten meters and over 27 tons "state of the art" optical piece gave the feared pocket battleship and its powerful gunnery an all weather precision edge over the other navies of its time.

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Back when Battleship North Carolina was commissioned in 1941, the ship was thought of as "the world's greatest sea weapon," and it turned out to be just that by participating in more than a dozen ...