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Turret
This first image is of the crew of the Studio Sea standing in front of the forward turret, note the protrusions on the back of the turret, the interior of course was white because of the low light environment.
The gunners with, "oven mitts" would catch the spent, hot shell casings as they were ejected from the non-recoiling guns and then they in turn would simply drop them down a rear shoot onto the deck behind the turret, they would then roll off of the deck and into the sea.
This particular ship dropped over 11,000 spent, brass casings into the sea off of the coast of Vietnam. (a scrapper's paradise!)
The last photo is the one that I REALLY wanted as all I had were profile views and the flight deck was not visible, when the Museum is opened to the public, the fully restored, DASH drone will be prominently displayed on the flight deck.
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