In one of Bremerton's parks there are two actual anti-aircraft gun platforms from a World War Two era ship. Each platform was operated by two gunners.
For a few moments, I tried to imagine what it must have been like during a battle with the guns blasting away and your shipmates depending on you to destroy the enemy aircraft before they could damage or sink the ship.
It must have taken tremendous courage for the gunners to stay at their posts while enemy planes beared down at them at 400 miles an hour.
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