Collection Guide:
Subject matter includes:
- A completed gun, its manufacture and assembly, circa April 1918
- Views of the gun car in various stages of manufacturing, construction, assembly, and completion
- Views of supporting cars, including ammunition car (inside and out), box car for berthing and shops (inside and out), 3”/50 twin A.A. gun car, gondola car, and crane car
- Naval barracks at St. Nazaire, France that housed the Battery’s personnel, including exterior and interior views
- Assembly of 14” MK I railroad guns, with supporting locomotives and cars at St. Nazaire, circa July – August 1918
- Gun en route to the Front, crossing a bridge
- VIPs with the Battery, including Assistant SecNav Franklin D. Roosevelt and Battery Commander RADM Charles P. Plunkett, USN
- Gun under test at the Sandy Hook Proving Grounds, NJ
- Gun camouflaged
- Gun in action on the Western Front
- Damage at the Laon Railway Yards, targeted by the gun
