USS Wisconsin BB 64 - "Big Whiskey"
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2 ай бұрынWarship Guide - USS Wisconsin BB-64
USS Wisconsin is a legendary warship that entered service after the traditional role of the battleship had evolved. Built to slug it out with ships of the line such as herself, Wisconsin, or Big Whiskey as she’s affectionately known, instead found herself protecting the vitally important carriers of the US Fleet off the coast of Japan during the final year of the Pacific War. She then spent the rest of her career providing accurate and dependable gunfire support whenever she was called upon, and now, she resides on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk as a museum ship open to the public. She earned five battle stars for her World War II service, one for the Korean War, and she also received a Navy Unit Commendation for her service in the Persian Gulf.
For more on her sisters in the Iowa class check out the videos below!
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US National Archives (video), Navsource (photos), Naval History & Heritage Command (photos)
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@harrycurtis6045 2 ай бұрын
Very good video. She was my last ship, I retired off of her on 1 Dec 1988.
@TheValorVault 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your service
@user-nj7bo3rc8v 24 күн бұрын
May we have a moment of prayer for you and all of our heroes who have served our country with honor and distinction. Thank you for your service my fellow American, my brother, and protector.
@RetiredSailor60 2 ай бұрын
I attended the memorial service for the USS Iowa explosion victims in 1989. I heard USS New Jersey's guns off the coast of San Clemente Island in 1985. I toured USS Missouri while a museum in Bremerton WA in 1984. I toured USS Wisconsin in 2002. My brother served on USS Missouri during the first Gulf War.
@LastCall359 25 күн бұрын
I work with a guy who saw the Iowa explosion.
@jameshall1300 2 ай бұрын
My Grandfather served on Wisconsin during the Korean war. I grew up hearing stories about it.
@Rob.DB. 2 ай бұрын
Lucky
@Wyomingchief 2 ай бұрын
The Iowa's were pretty badass ships, but the Alaska class Heavy Cruiser (aka battle Cruisers) we're damn near as big. In fact I believe they were bigger than the South Dakota class that preceded the Iowa's too bad we didn't save any of them
@tommcglone2867 2 ай бұрын
So was he a witness to the legendary Temper Temper Incident?
@randyvars6095 Ай бұрын
My Dad was on the Wisconsin... He served in the Pacific...
@robertshore266 Ай бұрын
My dad served on her during the Korean War. He always had stories. He was there when she got hit off North Korea. Heard that story many a time. Other stories too. My grandfather helped build her in WW2. We was an electrician in the Phila Navy Yard. He also worked on New Jeresey.
@timf2279 2 ай бұрын
She is the only Iowa class I haven't been on. Bucket list. Grand Gray Lady.
@Backwoods_870 Ай бұрын
It's very impressive..you can see her big guns while driving downtown to Norfolk...I was stationed on her while on medical hold in 2005
@timf2279 Ай бұрын
@@Backwoods_870 Awesome. I have been on the Missouri several times at several different locations, as well as the New Jersey. Iowa only one location.
@Backwoods_870 Ай бұрын
@@timf2279 (I gotta visit the Missouri
@Eyes-of-Horus 2 ай бұрын
I had an uncle who served on the Wisconsin during WWII and into Korea. My mother created a quilt for me and the inside blanket was one my uncle gave here from the Wisconsin.
@HobbitHomes263 2 ай бұрын
I got to tour her on my way south on my sailboat, It is an insane piece of engineering
@SecretsofTime2024 16 күн бұрын
SUCH A MAGNIFICENT SHIP😍😍😍
@602br61458 2 ай бұрын
Your video brings pleasant memories to an old man. Thank you.
@joshnelson4532 2 ай бұрын
Temper, temper big whisky.
@seanbigay1042 2 ай бұрын
"WELL THEY STARTED IT!"
@ethansprofile6670 2 ай бұрын
"We hurl shells as big as your Chevy 26 miles!"
@jhscheppele2448 2 ай бұрын
I always said Volkswagens , but I like Chevy better.
@kenbrown5449 Ай бұрын
OK, my claim to "Big Wisky" fame: I was the first person to report aboard USS Wisconsin (BB-64) PreComDet at Norfolk, VA for her last Commissioning. Showed up at PSD Norfolk and it took them about 5 hours to figure out where to put me. Ended up in an old BT school building that had been closed down. They had been using it for spare desk/chair/misc storage. The next day PNSN Lindley and HM3 showed up. When the CO/XO/CMMC reported aboard (not in that order) they moved us across the street to the main BT building which was also closed down. And that's where we stayed until the whole PreComDet was transferred to Biloxi, MS. I retired off of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) a "few" years later. Loved both those ships, as well as the USS Mount Hood (AE-29) and the USS LaSalle (AGF-3). That's my story and I'm sticking to it! lol!
@robertmartin6180 2 ай бұрын
It’s funny, but I was on the USS Merrill DD976 and we were actually the first ship to ever shoot a Tomahawk Cruise missile. so in my opinion we pave the way for these giants of the sea to sail again with a bolt on cruise missile system called Tomahawk. I smile a little bit when I hear that one was deployed. These things are 40 years old and still going strong.
@Victrola777 2 ай бұрын
I have a friend from the Wisconsin who claims he pushed the button that launched the first cruise missle against Iraq, even though a different battleship gets credit for it. Also, the Wisconsin is the longest battleship ever made ! 11" longer than all the other Iowa class battleships.
@user-nd5eq6yb9s 2 ай бұрын
Why did they make her long was it to prevent the vibration of the shafts,or was it to increase her top speed
@Victrola777 2 ай бұрын
@user-nd5eq6yb9s she hit a destroyer, and it crushed her bow ! They then took the bow off an unfinished Iowa class battleship and welded it on making the Wisconsin 11" longer than all other Iowas.
@ELCADAROSA 2 ай бұрын
@@Victrola777, which is the reason she has a nickname of “WisKy”, for it was the bow of the unfinished USS Kentucky that they used to repair the USS Wisconsin.
@richardhouser508 2 ай бұрын
A proud service record for a very fine battleship. On Wisconsin!
@Odin029 2 ай бұрын
My only small criticism of this video is talking about Wisconsin in the past tense. The ship still has 4 steam turbine engines etc... although only an idiot(or the people in the movie Battleship) would fire up those boilers and put superheated steam into pipes that haven't been maintained in 30 years.
@igotatan1 2 ай бұрын
My Father wasn't on a BB, He was stationed in Panama, but he did talk to sailors who were. He told me when all 9 barrels were salvoed, the whole ship would slip sideways about 15 feet, and you had to stand correctly or risk injuring your ankles.
@kenbrown5449 Ай бұрын
Yeah, we liked to tell tall tales. Especially the one about the bowling alley being closed for repairs! lol!
@kobra6335 2 ай бұрын
USS Wisconsin: "Hey Dad. I'm getting bored here in the Persian Gulf. Do you mind if I take a trip to North Kor" Uncle Sam: "Nooo!!"
@buzz5969 2 ай бұрын
Me: Huh?
@tommcglone2867 2 ай бұрын
@@buzz5969 Thats because Big Wiskey got hit by a 155mm artillery shell from a North Korean shore battery splintering the deck a bit. Big Wiskey when turned ALL NINE 16" GUNS on the shore battery and DELETED THE SHORE BATTERY AND THE HILL IT WAS POSITIONED ON. The destroyer escort USS Duncan flashed a morse code message saying "Tsk tsk. Temper temper"
@leonardcalvert3284 2 ай бұрын
Been on her what a beautiful ship!! Had a great time touring the ship. The gun's were assume to go through!
@kencreten7308 2 ай бұрын
Great vid. Thanks.
@Backwoods_870 Ай бұрын
While I was in the Navy I had the pleasure of serving duty while on medical leave on the Wisconsin downtown Norfolk in 2005.
@Cageey1117 2 ай бұрын
Outstanding.
@wildcolonialman 2 ай бұрын
Fabulous.
@ajaybattiste9995 2 ай бұрын
My daddy served on USS Wisconsin.
@petertorres3192 2 ай бұрын
Good show.
@RobertJones-me1vh 2 ай бұрын
On my bucket list , see a Iowa class !!
@GM-fh5jp 2 ай бұрын
Great video. Subscribed.
@TheValorVault 2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@leftseat30 2 ай бұрын
Beastly
@chrissnape9537 2 ай бұрын
Now a days $1.5 Billion is a drop in the ocean.
@buzz5969 2 ай бұрын
You just gave Youkraine 95 Billion😊
@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Ай бұрын
She was a killer alright, Iowa class BB's were awesome gun platforms.
@juggernautblue6 Ай бұрын
there isnt enough on the korean war... those years after the surrender of japan and thrown right back in to another war. greatest generation of men that never questioned their existence and were there for the man right next to them.
@yie1918 2 ай бұрын
👍🏻💯🇺🇸🔥🔥💪🏻💪🏻⚓
@raystory7059 2 ай бұрын
Philadelphia Naval ShipYard misses BB-64 but her sister ship BB-63 is now in Dry Dock #3 @ PNSY and the battleship New Jersey can be toured while in that dry dock right now.
@paddyohenry6428 15 күн бұрын
BB-62
@jayshaw63 Ай бұрын
At 4:40 - USS Wisconsin is tied up outboard of the hull of Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 11 November 1944.
@TheCrash1987 Ай бұрын
That’s a bad ass spicy Volvo shooting gunslinger
@t.j.lemaster8653 Ай бұрын
At least she didn't suffer the Fate as other war hero ships have and simply decommissioned and scrapped. So many pieces of history have went to the scrap yard and it is sad.
@AdamosDad Ай бұрын
⚓🐉Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club Member 1968-69🐉 🇺🇸⚓
@jhscheppele2448 2 ай бұрын
Did that Guam stop make the island tip over?
@hanovergreen4091 2 ай бұрын
Rest.
@seanbigay1042 2 ай бұрын
"Hahn? Stupid gun hurt Big Whiskey? Stupid gun make Big Whiskey ANGRY! BIG WHISKEY SMASH STUPID GUN! ... Stupid gun ..."
@robertvincent5859 4 күн бұрын
Don't mess with our BOATS!!!
@NIGHTSHADE1997 Ай бұрын
Big Wisky
@kennethprice5628 Ай бұрын
Yo...kooska!😂😂😂
@alexcamacho1842 2 ай бұрын
WIS (Wisconsin) + KY (Kentucky) = WISKY (rip BB-66)
@buzz5969 2 ай бұрын
My GF loves KY
@jimdunigan7029 2 ай бұрын
Exactly, she is not referred to as "Big Whiskey" but, simply "WisKy". At that, the nickname stems from the "Eaton Incident" of 1954 while training in the Chesapeake.
@user-te8sf6qi2b 2 ай бұрын
Swam around the ship, when anchored off QHIN NHON, VIETNAM, after returning from the south pole, after attack on aliens, at the south pole.
@Wyomingchief 2 ай бұрын
Sure you did, what did Admiral Byrd have to say about it😂😂
@user-ee3pl3zk3g 22 күн бұрын
tu
@kellyschram5486 2 ай бұрын
Lol if she was so obsolete. Why is it the Navy has still not been able to field a replacement for her or her sisters. Sorry but if they are obsolete there should be no issue doing so yet they have tried how many times? Now the latest where the Zummwalt's and we all know what happened there. I think the problem was not that they were out of date. I'm sure they could build a newer ship to do her job using less men. The issue becomes she had more than one job so by the time you build separate ships to do each of those jobs are you really saving anything? They got to save safe though claiming the battle ship is obsolete. So build 4 to 6 new nuclear powered ones 3 for each cost so they can spell each other. You can automate a lot like you did with the Ford's and cut the crew down but still keep the capability. Sorry it's a no brainer
@garystrittmater8258 2 ай бұрын
Perfect!
@briannelson4493 2 ай бұрын
The battle ship was made obsolete by the air plane at the outbreak of World War Two. Twenty miles verses two hundred miles.
@kellyschram5486 2 ай бұрын
@@briannelson4493 you are right in the part your referring to. It is no longer a front line ship. What we are talking about is what it can do that other ships can't.
@Wyomingchief 2 ай бұрын
@@kellyschram5486😂😂 Tell me one thing that she can do that no other ship can do
@Wyomingchief 2 ай бұрын
@@kellyschram5486also the Zumwalt were not built to replace any kind of Battleship or anything else. They were built to be part of the littoral Navy fleet. Problem was they tried to pack too much into one ship. The latest version of the Arleigh Burke Destroyers, could literally think a battleship before they even knew what happened
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