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sandpebbels wrote:

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Roger that. With the BBs, none of the mounts were on Centerline, so I've never seen any reference to how forward port mount would be numbered. For example, if forward port mount was Mount 52, what was aft mount on port side numbered? 52, 54,56,58 would have already been used.

It was called 510 (pronounced five-ten).

Would it help if I explained that 20 mm and 40 mm mounts were numbered the same way? For example, New Jersey had twenty 40 mm quad mounts. Again, port mounts are evens and starboards are odds. The two mounts on the bow were 41 and 42 (starboard/port) and the last two next to the aircraft crane on the stern were numbered 419 and 420. Again, these are normally pronounced four-nineteen and four-twenty, and not as four-hundred nineteen and four-hundred twenty.