USS Arizona
he other two turrets have interesting histories.
Turret 2 was not completely salvaged like turrets 3 and 4. Only the turret roof and guns were removed, and the side armor remains just barely above the waterline. The three guns were refurbished and placed in the reserve stock. In late 1944,
Nevada had just returned from fire missions off Normandy and Southern France and needed her guns relined. The standard process was to replace the guns outright, relined the old guns, and install them on the next ship, so
Nevada's Turret 1 recieved
Arizona's guns. She used these to great effect off Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and had Operation Downfall gone forward she would have used them on the beaches of Kyushu.
Turret 1 is also rather odd. If
Arizona lay intact on the bottom, Turret 1's barbette would be as high out of the water as the barbette of Turret 3 is today, the highest point on the wreck. The explosion was so powerful that today it can't be seen from the surface. When the National Park Service took over the wreck, the Navy told them all 12 guns had been removed. It was quite a shock when divers found Turret 1 and its 3 guns intact on the wreck!