14-inch/50-caliber gun
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The 14"/50 caliber gun was a naval gun mounted on New Mexico and Tennessee-class battleships. These ships also featured the first "three-gun" turrets, meaning that each gun in each turret could be "in
New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) in 1920, showing six 14"/50 caliber guns
The 14"/50 caliber guns on USS Tennessee (BB-43) fire in support of the invasion of Okinawa
14-inch/45-caliber gun
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The 14-inch/45-caliber gun,, whose variations were known initially as the Mark 1, 2, 3, and 5, and, when upgraded in the 1930s, were redesignated as the Mark 8, 9, 10, and 12. They were the first 14-i
14-inch/50-caliber gun
…guns were more powerful than the main gun mounted on the previous three classes of US battleships (the New York, Nevada and Pennsylvania classes), the 14"/45 caliber gun. A newer version known as Mark B was proposed but ultimately not used for the North Carolina-class battleships. The 14-inch (356mm), 50 caliber gun was…
Crewmen aboard USS Texas pause to have their picture taken on top of one of the twin 14-inch/45-caliber gun turrets, 1918.
14-inch/45-caliber guns aboard the battleship Nevada fire at Utah Beach during Operation Overlord in 1944.
The single 14-inch gun turret of a British Abercrombie-class monitor during World War I.
14-inch gun formerly on USS Arizona, displayed near the Arizona State House, Phoenix, Arizona