Thanks for serving brother. I have always felt we should have at least ONE battleship kept in service, we keep the Constitution on the books, seems we should do the same for a battleship. US ARMY Combat Engineer

I would disagree for one simple reason. The Battleships are old and worn out. The Iowa leaked about 5 gallons of hydraulic fluid A DAY on the electrical decks. The replacement parts were no longer made and she could not be fixed. A secondary reason is the powder is all old and in unusable condition. I do not think anyone makes that kind of powder anymore. We had powder on the Iowa from the 1930's. It was old, breaking down and was quite possible the reason why we had out accident on 4/19/89.

Remember in WW2: The majority of the Pacific Island bombarding was done by the older battleships and cruisers for the newer battleships were used to screen the aircraft carriers. My dad was on the USS Louisville CA 28 and here is a list of some of her bombardments along with the older battleships: Not the USS Iowa: USS LOUISVILLE CA- 28 Heavy Cruiser 1944-45 1 - Extensive shelling Island of Wotje in Marshalls. 2 - Bombardment Roi & Namur Islands. 3 - Led gunfire support Eniwetok Island. 4 - Bombarded Palaus Island. 5 - Bombarded Truk & Sawatan. 6 - 11 days of continued fire support Siapan. 7 - Bombarded Tinian & Guam. 8 - Enter Leyte Gulf - support major allied invasion force & shelled shore installations for 7 straight days. 9 - Battle of Surigao Strait - Flagship for Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf. 10 - Support landings at Lingayen Gulf. Hit by (2) kamikaze & killed Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler & many sailors. 11 - Fire support for Okinawa. Hit by another Kamikaze. 12 - Delivered Bull Halsey’s officers & staff - (150) to USS Missouri. 13 - Continued fire support duties. 14 - War ends. 15 - Escorted surrendered Japanese ships from Tsingato, China to Jinsen, Korea.

Theokolese The Shadow Of Death what ship is the video showing like the name of it example uss nc

And thank you for your service sir ooorah

I'd Imagine that the 8"/55RF was more useful against Torpedo bombers than anything else, they flew low, slow, and on predictable courses that the 6 second loading time for each gun could take advantage of.

Proximity fuses on rapid fire 8" shells under radar fire control = devastating wall of metal.

the Yamato's 18 Inch Monsters had an AA Shell that they could fire too (although, apparently it wasn't very succesful)

Yamato's shells were like giant shotgun cartridges, not at all similar to a proximity fused AA shell. As far as anyone knows, they never killed any aircraft with them. Proximity fusing was one of THE greatest factors responsible for the differences in AA performance (and arty for that matter) between the Allied and Axis forces in WW2.

Actually apparently Yamato did shoot down planes with the Type 3 shells. They were A6M Zeros.

it's a fantastic piece of engineering. huge respect

I been wanting to look up the Texas, but I don't want to get upset....again.

@@ramairgto72 Hang in there, Texas is getting some TLC. The museum's spent the last while torching out rusted framing and pretty much rebuilding her keel and ribbing to get her stable enough to move to drydock to have her hull plating replaced. From what I've seen and read, it was a LOT, a lot, of hot, unpleasant hard work down in the bowels of the hull welding in new steel here there and everywhere to shore up the ship's structure.

Maintaining a 700 foot heavy cruiser is expensive

My BB captains probably have PTSD after fighting enough Des Moines and Salems. I even received a citadel in my Vladivostok from a Des Moine at close range :)

and watch how the us army used the 8" gun on a tracked vehicle

lol

never a fan of these silk bags, 'cause the germans have put them in messing cartridges, before the loading cycle.

its not one specific narrator, voice actors and narrators were cast and trained differently back then - If you listen to smth like the History channels some of the voices there will be quite similar, barring advances in microphone technology

@@nosteponsneek4616 aha. Im poor English. Sry and thank you so much

When they were first introduced, the closest thing to an anti-ship missile had much shorter range than the 8" or even 5" guns. Of course, that was no longer true by the time they took USS Newport News out of service in 1975. If the class had hung around any longer they likely would have been refitted with SRBOC, Phalanx and possibly either Sea Sparrow or Standard.

One of them rolled into my bedroom..... I actually threw out my back putting the case in the back seat of my car. What a brutal piece of brass. Its the king of my collection.

@@kimmer6 cool

Amis sind halt ein bißchen psychisch zurückgeblieben, da sie so gerne die eigene Schwester bzw. Mütter ficken.

Ts, ts.

Interesting indeed. Thank you very much. What does DKM mean? I know of the ship simply as "Admiral Graf Spee".

I did a bit of research. Some non-german Authors use this prefix for "Deutsche Kriegsmarine", but originally, the ships of the Third Reich had no prefixes at all. I guess these Authors do it to fit in with all the "USS", "HMS" and so forth.

Most probable.

These rounds are semi fixed, the powder is carried in the separate case, then mated with the shell on the loading tray.

The case IS the powder. Unlike earlier guns, especially the big naval rifles (12" and up), these ones had powder in a fixed case instead of bags that were destroyed when fired.

@@steeltrap3800 Correcto!

Byron King the classic Navy "Boondockers ".

they are wearing jeans too. all just for this film

The boondockers I wore in the Navy had steel toes.

Did steely toe boots exist in the 1940s?

those are Navy dungarees, standard issue - the leg is straight-cut, but looks bell-bottomed -- the shirt is called a chambray, and is a light blue cotton fabric.

They feed a mouse crack cocaine, stuff it in at the last moment.

It's a casing, so it's got the primer built into it. Firing pin on the breech ignites the primer, which ignites the charge.

Basically a 45 Long Colt cartridge (sans projectile, of course!). It's an electronically controlled firing pin but the gun captain also has a lanyard in case of a misfire or hang fire. A VERY tense few minutes for those of us in the gun room on the few occasions it happened off the coast of Vietnam. We all new about the explosion on our ship (the Saint Paul), the result of a hang fire, about 15 years earlier. Still not something the US Navy likes to talk about. Google it.

The length of the barrel in 'Diameters' of the Round fired. 8" x 55 = about 37'

+Stephen Keebler:Thank you.

Link?

I have read that when they fired the 18" guns sailors shouldn't be on the deck as it would turn them into protoplasm.

That would be the now retired M110 8" self propelled howitzer. The MLRS replaced them.

thank swaghauler... better keep both military vehicles services... MLRS must use it with 8 patriot missiles or another missiles... M110 howitzer gun with a tank keep use it... no retirement = no stoppable

The M110 was retired for a variety of reasons, least of which was that the smaller 155mm guns could do the same job but far more efficiently and are far more mobile when either used as towed and self-propelled guns.