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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
The one you pictured is Canadian in design and manufacture; we made a sum total of 24 of them early in the war, primarily for west-coast defence against an imagined Japanese invasion.
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Only in Canada you say? Pity!
Hmmm, you've given me a great idea for a possible future resto.
The much feared Jap invasion of the West Coast (John Belushi, 1941) never materialized. Other than I-26 shelling the Point Estevan light house and the odd Fire Balloon drifting over, the war on B.C.'s coast was relatively quiet. By the way, Jefe, did you hear the conspiracy theory about how the shelling of the lighthouse was actually done by a U.S. warship in order to bolster P.M. MacKenzie-King's bid to implement conscription? Good theory until you realize that the Yank's didn't land 5.5in. guns on their ships. However the Japs did and after the war the captain of I-26 admitted to shelling the lighthouse.
Now, onto the Lusitania!