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Website

I found a website dedicated to this ship.

http://www.usscolorado.org/History/history.htm

Might it be of any use to the article?

96.243.206.236 (talk) 04:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

5 inch guns

Friedman, on p 368 of US Battleships says the 5in/25 were not replaced by 5in/38 but only shielded. The photographs on that page seem to bear this out. Anyone have a definitive answer?

Subspace1250 (talk) 06:49, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]