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HMS Belfast: Part One

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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The Royal Navy Turrets Have Spare Generators

The turret would have been operated by steam driven electrical generators. The only thing they were there to do were to feed those shells into those guns and keep fire ing until the order came to stop. Not a single one of them is alive now, it's so sad. They'd be well versed and well practised in those emergency procedures or all that othing. It was like clockwork at full speed and firing eight shells out of each gun per minute.

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