godefroybourbonnais

Main canons

From the deck of the Missouri, the three main canons pointing forwards. The sheer size of these 300mm canons makes it impossible to imagine the life onboard su...
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From the deck of the Missouri, the three main canons pointing forwards. The sheer size of these 300mm canons makes it impossible to imagine the life onboard such a vessel. With this picture, I tried to reflect the power of the main and center canon that can shoot near 27 miles away, a small distance compared to todays technology, but when you step aboard this ship for the first time, you go back some 70 years and just then, in a moment of your life, you start to grasp how huge and powerful this vessel was at the time. Then you realize that it took a huge workforce of dedicated men to fire the 9 canons aboard this ship and the hell they must have gone through. My only hope with this picture is to translate an emotions of that time.
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