Did the turret shown in this picture belong to a German battleship?
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I don't know anything about the gun or turret but the landscape looks the Idaho Falls Nuclear Laboratory which was originally a heavy naval gun testing/register range. The range was edged out after the war by the nuke people needing a vast space to set up labs for test reactors and research. An interesting item is that several inherited large naval guns in storage were cast radioactive free and were invaluable in use for various experiments requiring radioactive free metal. It seems that all metal cast after the Trinity test, bombs in Japan, tests in the Pacific, the Hanford Site "Green Run" (you should research that! Woohoo!), the Nevada Test Site tests, and whatever radioactivity Russia was spewing into the air, they couldn't find any radioactive free metal. There was at least a slight trace of it in all metal cast. The naval cannons left there were free of it. (to read more-Google: "Proving the Principle") I suspect there is a slight trace in everything since then.
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No, it is a US style gun turret, and hence does not come from a German ship, but a US one.
This picture is most likely of USS Salt Lake City or USS Northampton, taken March 25 1941 in Brisbane. Both used this type of turrets. It was used on the Pensacola class, the Northampton class and the Portland class.
Here is a picture of USS Pensacola in 1945:
As comparison, here is a page with pictures of some German warship gun turrets.
There is absolutely no doubt that the turret in the picture is a US type turret.
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