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  USS Mullinnix DD-944 - Armament
The Mk 42 mount was a shielded, base-ring-type mounting consisting of a gun house and carriage with rotating structure, a fixed stand for mounting the base-ring, and the gun loading system.
The mounts could be rapidly trained at a rate of 40 degrees/second, elevated from -15 degrees to 85 degrees at 25 degrees/second, and loaded at any angle of elevation.
mount and the twin for a quadruple 40-mm.
www.ussmullinnix.org /armament.html   (1367 words)

  
 ALNAVCO => WARSHIPS
Mount a single 20mm AA gun which had been removed from the top of the 16" turrets, where each of the 4x40mm which had been located forward of the "A" turret were previously located.
Mount three 20mm AA guns where the 4x40mm mounts on the main deck forward of the "Y" turret had been.
Mount the platform between the legs of the tripod about half way up with the ear extending aft and mount the rangefinder on the ear from item #2.
www.alnavco.com /c_conversion_corner.htm   (5333 words)

  
 Mount Did You Mean mount?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A mount is a point where additional equipment, such as a weapon, camera, winch and telescope can be attached to a vehicle so that the vehicle itself supports the weight of the equipment, rather than the operator.
A mount in gymnastics is the maneuver of going from the ground onto a gymnastic apparatus, such as the balance beam or parallel bars.
To mount a file system, in computer science, is to make it ready for use by the operating system, typically by reading certain index data structures from storage into memory ahead of time.
www.did-you-mean.com /Mount.html   (615 words)

  
 Gunma Prefecture - Cassiopedia, The True Encyclopedia
When Mt Haruna erupted in the late 6th century Japan was still in pre-history, but the Gunma Prefectural archaeology unit in 1994 was able to date the eruption through zoological anthropology at the corral sites that were buried in ash.
On March 27, 2006, the towns of Agatsuma and Azuma from Agatsuma District merged to form the new town of Higashiagatsuma.
The city of Takasaki is scheduled to merge with the town of Haruna from Gunma District on October 1, 2006.
www.cassiopedia.org /wiki/index.php?title=Gunma_Prefecture   (1016 words)

  
 Bell II
Meanwhile, Bell continued to mount guard over the carriers of her task group, though with Japanese airpower in the immediate vicinity decimated and his submarine threat more apparent than real, the nature of her chores bordered on the routine.
The two task groups mounted a third attack in the early afternoon, but it did not add to the score.
Arriving off the objective on the 7th, she spent the next three days supporting the minesweeping operations, an extensive effort mounted as result of recent experience with the mines encountered at Tarakan, and bombarding enemy positions on shore.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/b4/bell-ii.htm   (6363 words)

  
 Japanese battleship Haruna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
up to 118 × 25 mm AA Haruna (榛名) was a Kongō class battleship laid down by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kobe on 16 March 1912, launched on 14 December 1913 and completed on 19 April 1915.
Haruna on the bottom on 8 October 1945
This page was last modified 08:26, 18 October 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_Haruna   (132 words)

  
 Mount Haruna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Haruna' (Japanese: 榛名山) is an active stratovolcano in eastern Honshū, Japan.
The mountain is where the main character, Takumi Fujiwara, delivers tofu everyday to a hotel uphill, using his Toyota Sprinter Trueno (AE86).
The battleship Haruna was named after the mountain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Haruna   (138 words)

  
 Why have we abandoned Honorouble Haruna Yerima?
This is very depressing though not surprising in the sense that it accounts for kinds of abandoned or shabbily done jobs all over the country.
Out of N230million to be disbursed to a foreign contractor recently he confided that over N80m was for all forms of settlement and yet the Minister for Finance will mount the rostrum all over the world that corruption is abetting when in the actual sense it is now being legalized through unwritten legislation.
If we allow him to be ridiculed and intimidated to the point of apologizing for being honorable then I wonder what will be the fate of the dishonorable members.
www.kwenu.com /publications/uchendu/haruna_yerima.htm   (1213 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When Godzilla rose from the smoking mouth of Mount Mihara in 1989, DDH-142 Haruna Destroyers, along with DD-122 Hatsuyuki Class Destroyers and the Super X-2 were deployed to intercept Godzilla as he swam toward Japan.
With the DDH-142 Haruna Destroyer’s massive amount of firepower, the JSDF and the Japanese Navy seems certain that it would be able to stop Godzilla.
However Godzilla, merely angered and annoyed by this attack, retaliated with his radioactive heat ray and upon impact, the ships instantly exploded as their fuel was ignited by the monster’s intense ray.
www.kaijuhq.org /ship2.html   (310 words)

  
 Gunma prefecture - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - Gunma Prefecture (or Gumma) (群馬県, Gunma-ken?) is located in the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Some of the main mountains of Gunma are Mount Akagi, Mount Haruna, Mount Miyogi, Mount Nikkō-Shirane and Mount Asama, which is located on the Nagano border.
On October 1, 2006, the town of Haruna from Gunma District merged into the city of Takasaki.
Gunma District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
www.palmspringscaus.com /section/Gunma_prefecture   (1353 words)

  
 Imperial Cruisers
Admiral (Fleet Admiral, posthumously) Koga Mineichi (former CO of ISE), CINC, Combined Fleet, remains at Truk with the fleet's flagship, the MUSASHI with BatDiv 2's FUSO and BatDiv 3's KONGO and the HARUNA.
The torpedoes miss the HARUNA, but head toward the YAMATO whose crew spots their tracks to starboard.
During the action, the YAMATO is hit twice by bombs and the HARUNA also receives several near misses.
www.combinedfleet.com /noshiro_t.htm   (2414 words)

  
 Accra Daily Mail - Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kanga, was briefing the media on the forthcoming District Level Elections at Koforidua; he observed that it was better to allow aggrieved people to talk than to restrict them only for them to react violently.
He said candidates contesting the elections had no right to mount their own political platforms to campaign for votes but could only campaign on platforms mounted for them by the EC.
Kanga said the candidates could undertake house-to-house or inter-personal campaigns and explained that though it was the responsibility of the EC to organize elections in the country, it had no mandate or responsibility to mobilize people to vote in the elections.
www.accra-mail.com /mailnews.asp?id=17923   (376 words)

  
 Museum - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
Kelly posthumously received the Distinguished Service Cross based on the belief that he damaged or destroyed the Haruna, and also because he stayed with his plane until his crew could bail out.
Monticello resident and U.S. Marine Sergeant Ernest "Boots" Thomas led the patrol that planted the first American flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi during the ferocious battle of early 1945.
In the center of the photograph is Monticello native Sergeant Ernest I. "Boots" Thomas, Jr.
dhr.dos.state.fl.us /museum/mfh/exhibits/wwii/panel.cfm?panel=4_8   (337 words)

  
 ARUSHA TIMES Weekly Newspaper, Arusha, Tanzania.
Mount Meru Hospital which is the referral health facility for both Arusha and Manyara regions has run out of supply of human blood for transfusion...
Biennial Scientific Assembly and Second General Assembly of Malaria Researchers held at Mount Meru Hotel in Arusha between February 24 and 27.
Haruna Farage, UN ICTR: 0744 - 262 965
www.arushatimes.co.tz /2004/8   (237 words)

  
 Imperial Cruisers
Captain (later Rear Admiral) Nabeshima is reassigned as the Chief of Staff of the Fourth Fleet at Truk.
Her No. 3 200-mm (8-inch) 200-mm turret is removed as are her twin-mount 25-mm AA guns, 120-mm (4.7-inch) HA guns, twin torpedo tube mounts and the seaplane hangar.
Four Type 92 quadruple torpedo mounts, loaded with 16 Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedoes, are also fitted as is a Type 22 surface-search radar.
www.combinedfleet.com /maya_t.htm   (2997 words)

  
 Math Forum - POW Solutions, October 2-6, 1995
It may also leave a path with the sequence: square, rectangle, square, rectangle, etc. The third path it might leave is diamonds connected by line segments.
It would leave a long path resembling a rectangle when the cylinder is removed.
The End *************************************************** Courtney Piper and Colleen Cusick Grade 10 Mount St. Joseph Academy Problem of the Week We were able to form two different patterns with the parallelopiped.
mathforum.org /pow/solu37.html   (4818 words)

  
 25ID-cc
With the departure of the 1st Marine Division, no large scale offensives could be launched until the troops of the 25th arrived.
Millard Harmon, commanding U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific, determined that a limited offensive against Mount Austen, the high ground which dominated the American positions around Henderson Airfield and Lunga Point, was necessary for further advance.
The 161st turned west to clear the Japanese stronghold on Mt. Haruna, near the Balete Pass, on 22 May. The soldiers of the 161st continued north over the Haruna ridge to reach the Villa Verde Trail, west of Santa Fe.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/matrix/25ID/25ID-cc_htm.htm   (8176 words)

  
 UNUJS1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A rare complete set of stereoscope photographs taken by the well-known American firm of photographers, Underwood and Underwood.
Each pair of photographs is mounted on a card, numbered 1-100, and there is a full descriptive text in English of the depicted scene on the back of each card with captions in English, French and other languages.
The photographs are in a cloth case that resembles a book.
www.hanshan.com /u/UNUJS1.HTM   (347 words)

  
 1984 Toyota Trueno - Flaco's Toyota "El Trueno"
Haruna is the real name for the Akina mountain.Mount Akina is a hill located in eastern Japan.
On the lake, you can enjoy boating, skating, and anazuri fishing of pond smelt, and you can also enjoy cycling around the lake.
why they called it Akina in Initial D? but perhaps it was to reduce the number of rev-heads flocking to Haruna to wreck their cars or kill themselves.
www.cardomain.com /ride/859995/6   (547 words)

  
 USA 5"/54 (12.7 cm) Mark 42 Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Greasing a gun mount on USS Hull DD-945
Note that the AA fire-control domes have been removed and the basket for catching cartidge cases
Note the cartridge case being ejected from front of mount
www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNUS_5-54_mk42_pics.htm   (129 words)

  
 161st Infantry "First Washington"
On 10 January 1943 the offensive was launched and successfully completed by 21 January with the seizure of Galloping Horse by the 27th Infantry and Mount Austin and the Gifu strongpoint by the 35th Infantry.
On 22 May the 161st turned west to clear the Japanese off of Mount Haruna and then continued north over the Haruna ridge to reach the Villa Verde Trail, west of Santa Fe.
Except for mopping up actions in support of the clearing of the Old Spanish Trail by the 27th and 35th Infantry, there were no further major combat actions conducted by the 161st Infantry before the campaign for Luzon was officially declared ended on 4 July 1945.
www.25thida.com /161stinf.html   (3961 words)

  
 Hiroshige - Stewart Guide to Japanese Prints
View from the terrace of a tea-house looking down the pass across a wilderness of conical hills to the sea beyond ; tea-houses on either side of the road as it mounts the steep incline up to the terrace.
In best impressions the foreground should be a light colour, the hills green, and not a blue-green, in greater contrast to the blue of the sea.
A small red bridge joins two snowy cliffs across a blue stream, the fantastic crags of Mount Haruna under a thick blanket of snow, all white against a dark wintry sky.
www.hiroshige.org.uk /hiroshige/stewart/chapter_18.htm   (3451 words)

  
 Akina
Mount Akina is a hill located in eastern Japan.
It is also where Takumi raced his first few races.
Pictures from real Mount Akina and also here (Japanese page)
www.knowledgefun.com /book/a/ak/akina.html   (83 words)

  
 View of Mt. Haruna Holiday Cards - japan, japanese, mount haruna, ando hiroshige, christmas, snow landscape, fine art - ...
View of Mt. Haruna Holiday Cards - japan, japanese, mount haruna, ando hiroshige, christmas, snow landscape, fine art - Galison/Mudpuppy
Everyone loves this crystalline View of Mt. Haruna under the Snow from Sixty Views of the Provinces by Japanese print master Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858).
Hiroshige was the last great printmaker of the Ukio-e (popular style) of printmaking in Japan.
www.galison.com /View-of-Mt-Haruna-Holiday-Cards-P597C207.aspx   (87 words)

  
 View of Mount Haruna Under the Snow (Print) Framed Canvas Art by Ando Hiroshige 20 in. x 27.8 in. Framed - SHOP.COM
View of Mount Haruna Under the Snow (Print) Framed Canvas Art by Ando Hiroshige 20 in.
*Artist: Ando Hiroshige *Title: View of Mount Haruna Under the Snow (Print) Framed Canvas Art *Frame: Gilded Dark Brown and Antique Gold-2.25" *Image Dimensions: 15.46 in.
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www.shop.com /op/aprod-p48786664   (227 words)

  
 TIME.com: Again the Red Army -- Aug. 18, 1975 -- Page 1
The Red Army, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea.
Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo.
The 14, who had been tortured and left to die of exposure in freezing winter temperatures, had apparently been purged for displaying "bourgeois symptoms."
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,917724,00.html   (760 words)

  
 Initial D - China-related Topics IM-IP - China-Related Topics
Having driven the mountain pass every morning to deliver tofu (for five years before his first race), Takumi's driving skill is highly developed.
They often prefer to race on other team's home course and have a rule about not racing on their home course.
One of the more highly skilled drivers in the series(he is the Red Sun's fastest member as well as their leader); he and his younger brother Keisuke have been featured in racing magazines and is regarded highly by other drivers.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Initial_D   (4497 words)

  
 how to get to akina from tokyo - DRIFTING.com
Why is it that drive through ATM's have braile on the keys??
n ill make sure to remember that haruna part.
yes, someone did post pics of mount haruna on this forum, it was a while back though.
www.drifting.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3597   (396 words)

  
 This big piggy went to market | Screen | The Observer
Coming from Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, the Hong Kong duo who co-directed the Infernal Affairs trilogy, Initial D: Driftracer is desperately disappointing.
It's based on a Japanese animated series about young men indulging in illegal roadracing around the hairpin bends on Mount Haruna, an active volcano in eastern Honshu.
The hero is 17-year-old Takumi (Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou), who has learnt his art driving a souped-up Toyota Sprinter, delivering tofu from his father's shop.
observer.guardian.co.uk /screen/story/0,,1774209,00.html   (1217 words)

  
 View of Mt. Haruna Holiday Cards More Details
View of Mt. Haruna Holiday Cards More Details
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