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| Caption | Top view of USS Drum's conning tower, showing her twin 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft weapons, 1940s ww2dbase | |||||||
| Date | 1943 | |||||||
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| Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
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Info above photo: Twin mount 20mm Oerlikon cannon, many subs even mounted 40mm Bofors cannon's subs also carried the fifty caliber machine-gun. The weapons would be brought on deck, and used for specifie use the .50's being brought in before diving. Also carried was the 3inch deck gun.