"It was very confining in the gun mount. If it
was on automatic, the mount was never steady.
It was always shaking, especially when you were
trying to line up the sight."

William McGee
Cook & Baker 3C
1957-58

The CASSIN YOUNG has five of these guns, the largest on the ship. They fired on aircraft, ships, and shore targets. They could hit a surface target nine miles away, or an air target six miles away.

As many as nine men worked inside this mount, loading, aiming and firing, as fast as every four seconds. Below is a handling room where men passed ammunition to the gun crew above.