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Great photo of a 16 inch projectile ! 😎
It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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If it didn't suck you right off the deck, you would have all the suntan you needed for the summer.
There it goes over the horizon
That's gonna leave a mark!
The U.S.S. North Carolina firing on Okinawa.
Crew members cleaning those guns. "Hey Joe, grab another 55 gallon barrel of that Hoppes 9 will ya??"
Shooting the tiny little 5" gun.
Today they set about 5 miles from me just across the Cape Fear River.
Ain't she pretty??
This is a short video of WWII footage of BB55, "The Show Boat" The U.S. North Carolina Fast Battleship. She was 729 feet long and 108 feet wide and her 121,000 H.P. engines could push her 26 knots.
(81) Sleeping Giant - Battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) - YouTube
Local pawn shop has a large version of this picture behind their counter. USS Missouri He thinks it's from the Korean War I always thought was a cool picture . You can see six of them in the upper right
This last picture is from the North Carolina cleaning a 16" barrell
I've done the tours on the Alabama,Texas and North Carolina they always amaze me how that much steel floats. lf the New Jersey was in a better location I would like to tour it
Ricci.Wright -
Those are really great photos !
Thanks 😊,
George
i live about an hour from the Alabama, and have toured the North Carolina several times on my visits to
Wilmington. i think they still store the bullets in the hold.
When I was in the Signal Officer Basic course ( fall '72) they were trying to teach brand-new 2LT's how to call for artillery fire.
Told us the story of an LT who spotted a line of lights coming down a hill out of range of anything he had locally so he got on the fire control net and put out his call for fire.
Unknown voice with unfamiliar call sign came up, everything checked out so he gave them the target coordinates and ended with the standard line of "stand by to adjust fire."
Voice replied, " that won't be necessary." and about that time the whole grid square around the target jumped up in the air.
He later had time to sort through the code books and discovered the New Jersey had take the fire mission.