USS Tennessee (BB-43) - "The Fire Support Guru"

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Warship Guide - USS Tennessee BB-43
USS Tennessee is one of my favorite battleships. She was beautiful, with her clipper bow and standard type classic lines. She made it through the chaos of December 7th, 1941, and emerged from the oil slicks and ashes of Pearl Harbor to become one of the bedrocks of the Pacific fleet’s fire support force. Her main battery hurled over 9,000 14 inch shells at the Japanese during the Pacific War, and some of these were fired during the last battleship on battleship confrontation in history during the Battle of Surigao Strait. She earned a Navy Unit Commendation, as well as 10 battle stars for World War 2 service.
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@calliecooke1817 Ай бұрын

Wonderful video. One thing that everyone, always fails to include though. Her 14" rifles were forged at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. At one time the Navy Yard had 60,000 employees, totally racially diverse in the era of Jim Crow. It also boasted the most modern blast furnace in the U.S. This was the only real "heavy" industry ever located in a city who's main product is the government. It's often overlooked. For over 150 years, almost all of the Navy's big guns were forged here. Thanks.

@robertschumann7737 Ай бұрын

Jim Crow were laws enacted in the southern states. Not surprising a company in DC didn't follow them.

@robertwoods2650 29 күн бұрын

My uncle was aboard on December 7, 1941. He survived the attack and the war. US Marine. He helped man a gun on the 7th.

@jonmcgee6987 Ай бұрын

My favorite Battleship for very clear reasons.

@OldMovieFan1973 12 күн бұрын

This is the History that we need to keep. Thankyou

@johnbrowning8785 Ай бұрын

Would have been nice to have had her steamed up the Mississippi to Memphis and made into a musem ship near Mud Island.

@rifleman7.62 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately we couldn't even take care of the memphis belle. But growing up in Memphis that would have been sweet to see!

@gingerli5820 Ай бұрын

All that refitting, rebuilding, replacing, modernizing didn't make much sense in light of TN's quick decommission in February of 1947, then mothballed and finally struck in March, 1959, followed by immediate scrapping. This was the spending momentum invested in obsolete military enterprises that Eisenhower warned of. The spending is so out of control now, it's no longer budgeted - it's merely heaped into more debt. And museums? They're not very popular with today's liberal indoctrinated, America hating youth. And Memphis is no longer safe to live in let alone visit a museum there.

@johnbrowning8785 23 күн бұрын

@gingerli5820 Okay "Captain Hindsight" what would you have done at the end of 1941? When the US was reeling from Pearl Harbor and the invasion of the Phillipines? Ike wasn't referring to Wartime spending during WWII, he was referring to the permanent National Security State that was embarked upon in 1947 with Truman's National Security Act.

@johnbrowning8785 23 күн бұрын

@rifleman7.62 I remember as a kid when it was falling apart in front of the National Guard building. They did fix it up and put it under a pavillion on Mud Island for awhile. Tennessee would have been nice moored nearby.

@RussellMiller-gh7fb Ай бұрын

The ships bell is still on display at the Senator Howard Baker Museum in his hometown of Huntsville Tn.

@paulprovenzano3755 Ай бұрын

Flex for the shipbuilding capabilities of the time . ‘’Remember all those old battleships that you tried to sink ? They’re the ones redrawing the geography of ‘your’ islands. They’ll be our islands, soon enough. Just thought you might want to know.”

@jeremymackevincaylor5041 Ай бұрын

Love seeing her from my couch in the beautiful green ridges of East Tennessee

@danielmackormack8524 Ай бұрын

The battleship was not broken up into scrap ?

@JoshuaFare Ай бұрын

Woulda been better at Vicksburg

@HighlanderNorth1 Ай бұрын

As was true with the USS Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, South Dakota, West Virginia and Colorado, the USS Tennessee was also named after a great and famous seafaring state. It's just a shame they didn't save her as a museum ship, permanently moored at the Atlantic port of Nashville. 😁

@gingerli5820 Ай бұрын

@@HighlanderNorth1 I was wondering where in orbit were you observing earth from when I realized you were being sarcastic/factious. Agree - all of those landlocked farmlands should have their own battleship museum.

@liamthompson9090 Ай бұрын

She was a beautiful ship.

@douglaspriest2770 Ай бұрын

History... not forgotten 😢

@maximusmeridius3380 Ай бұрын

Such an ignoble end for such a magnificent ship. 😢

@heliop2516 Ай бұрын

It’s a shame so few of the old girls are left I’m lucky here we have the Massachusetts,and her sister is still alive as well we also have the three younger sisters, but we should have saved one sister from each class that way we would have a complete generation off them . He are close with the Texas but not all the lady’s are represented ,any how keep up the good work I enjoy it very much.

@HighlanderNorth1 Ай бұрын

We saved all 4 Iowas, as well as one or more of the North Carolina and South Dakota classes, plus the USS Texas. But I'd trade 1 or 2 of the Iowas for one each of the Tennessee, Colorado and New Mexico classes. But at least we managed to save several of our battleships, whereas England and every other battleship producing country scrapped ALL of theirs!

@Wyomingchief Ай бұрын

So happy to finally see you do a video on this magnificent battleship. My grandfather and his brother both served on the USS Tennessee, both of them being attached to the ship in late 1941 through 1945. My grandfather was a wireless radio operator and later a radar fire Direction technician. His brother worked in the engine room, not sure exactly what he did.

@TheValorVault Ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Tennessee is definitely my favorite of the standard series. I greatly appreciate the service of your grandfather and his brother. It's men like them, of every generation, that allow me to enjoy my life.

@Wyomingchief Ай бұрын

@TheValorVault yeah I got a hold of my uncle, and he said that my grandfather's brother was a machinist mate first class and actually worked in the machine shop. I just wish I'd spent more time with him before he passed. Luckily he did share a lot of stories, which is what really ignited my is passion for the US Navy in World War II

@spikespa5208 Ай бұрын

Tennessee was my father's first ship that he served on when he joined in the early '30s. Was sad when he heard she had been finally scrapped. Have heard that she was noted for using her main battery as 14" sniper rifles at close ramge for individual bunkers and other targets on Suribachi.

@BrianPeloso-ln4ry Ай бұрын

I met a guy in 1994 in northern Ontario who retired to the north shore of Lake Superior...he served in 2 turret ...he freaked out that I knew of her and Tsurigao straight. When I showed off by naming Oldendorf he invited me to his home...serendipity is awesome.✌️🇨🇦👍

@francisbusa1074 Ай бұрын

Wow. Enjoying a piece of living history for sure! It was like that for me and dad. I was born shortly after he came home in November '45. For years we enjoyed watching Victory at Sea together. When I was about 6 years old he got me a Revell model of an F6F Hellcat, telling me what a great fighter it was. Ever since then I began learning all about the war in the Pacific. The officers and men on his ship, USS Birmingham (CL-62), published a book after the war detailing the ship's history (I think I've almost memorized it). In the late '60s during Vietnam I got to steam in some of the same waters he did. I miss him so much. He passed in 2013.

@BrianPeloso-ln4ry Ай бұрын

@@francisbusa1074 Wow thanks...

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Ай бұрын

My father was a Marine in WW2 and a friend from his neighborhood (in the Bronx) served on the Tennessese.

@6thmichcav262 Ай бұрын

Strikes me that the damage analysis drawings from 9:00 to 9:30 were all drafted by hand. What high quality graphics in multiple views!

@arthurrobinson7859 Ай бұрын

In that era all drawings were done by hand.

@6thmichcav262 Ай бұрын

Obviously, that’s the point.

@MikeHunt-fo3ow Ай бұрын

good job telling her story

@jackgreen412 Ай бұрын

Most excellent.

@aegrotattoo9018 Ай бұрын

Much appreciated, excellent clip ! 🙂

@chloehennessey6813 Ай бұрын

Tennessee was very very protective of her boys on land.

@huskergator9479 Ай бұрын

Excellent! Love hearing about the older wagons. Keep it up!! Thank you!!

@madjeepernh6834 Ай бұрын

My grand father John Goulding was a cook and gunner for the USS Tennessee. im glad he made it home that thing withstood some shit!! thank you for serving soldiers!!.

@GM-fh5jp Ай бұрын

Yep, good video and pretty decent commentary too. Good job V.V team.

@73Trident Ай бұрын

Great video thanks

@DISGUYROX Ай бұрын

I was born in January of 1939. I can remember much of the years of WWII and what it was like living in America during those years and the following years. America was a wonderful experience for this little boy back then. I had two uncles and two cousins in WWII, my two cousins were in the ETO while my two uncles were in the Pacific with one of them in a 14" turret in the Tennessee and the other a tail gunner and etc in a B29. They al had their stories to tell and the nly one who kept it all to himself was that cousin who was in infantry in the ETO. No doubt what he saw and experienced cause him to keep it to himself. These great American guys FROM the GREATEST GENERATION were who led me to join the navy. They were ANTIFAS and SO AM i.

@francisbusa1074 Ай бұрын

One magnificent beast of a man of war!

@benjisterchi5195 Ай бұрын

Born and raised in Chattanooga Tennessee, it’s a shame she was not saved by the Navy or the State of Tennessee to serve as a Museum Ship. What a waste, just the ships bell in Huntsville Tennessee! Wow, guess that’s better then nothing.

@randallgschwind3799 Ай бұрын

I guess they shot up all 14 inch ammo before she was cut up!!!

@davidmccarty6445 Ай бұрын

She's a beautiful lady

@francisbusa1074 Ай бұрын

I think you meant Cape Horn, not Cape of Good Hope which is in Africa.

@derek6579 Ай бұрын

I thought Arizona was sunk by a torpedo from a sneaky mini sub?

@huskergator9479 Ай бұрын

At 5:50 there is a pic of what looks to be a mini sub off to the left, complete with three torpedo wakes or trails. I saw a video that explained that those three ‘rooster tails’ or geysers are from the sub’s screw that breached as it fired each fish. But where Arizona was parked inside, i doubt it took a torpedo hit. But i really do not know enough to be talking about this.

@BrianPeloso-ln4ry Ай бұрын

@@huskergator9479I think you explained it perfectly. I love modesty.

@jimwolaver9375 Ай бұрын

Those mini subs could only carry two torps. The three wakes you saw may have included air-dropped torpedoes - there were quite a few that morning...

@toomanyhobbies2011 Ай бұрын

Very good AI? Poor pronunciation and identically pronounced, repeated words...

@Wyomingchief Ай бұрын

And nobody cares

@RayyMusik Ай бұрын

I like it. Very clear pronunciation, helpful for non-native speakers.

@evilisfun9935 Ай бұрын

Trolls everywhere, even on history videos. Please, internet troll, leave the basement, and go outside for a while lol.

@williamfankboner4206 Ай бұрын

Yeah, I was puzzled by the pronunciation of Eniwetok (Marshall Islands), which added a note of inauthenticity to the narrative. You suddenly realize the narrator is not a real person. Still, a superb history of a fine ship on which my father served as chief medical officer prior to its rendezvous with destiny at Pearl.

@mrcpu9999 Ай бұрын

I agree, this voice is all over tiktok, and takes away the personalization of the channel. It just makes it more generic, whereas the ones where you get to know the channel owner and a little bit about them are for more interesting. But there's no "connection" here, just a robot reading, regardless of how good the script is.