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Good point. That's a bit too poetic for an encyclopedia. I have seen writers describe buildings as having "witnessed" events in history, but we should avoid getting that literary. I changed it to the more prosaic "was present for".
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And oddly both sourced to Friedman - I don't have the book in front of me at the moment (and likely won't have time for a couple of days) but I'll double check. Maybe he said 5"/25 guns in 1943?
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14 inches is 356 mm (not 360 mm), 5 inches is 127 mm (not 130 mm). best,
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