Battery of the Battleship USS California

The shining 14-inch 50-caliber main guns, “sentinels of security,” form the forward main battery of the USS California (BB-44). The USS California was sunk on Battleship Row in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but the ship was salvaged and reconstructed to serve in the Pacific for the remainder of WWII.

Source: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, November 1942.