http://imgur.com/a/LAdE3?gallery. Great Mil. photos. The ship is the Wisconson, BB64.
http://imgur.com/a/LAdE3?gallery. Great Mil. photos. The ship is the Wisconson, BB64.
Whatever!
Great find - awesome pictures!
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Thanks for posting them.
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Your welcome. I was noticing the sideways 'wake' from the full broadside, amazing.
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A GM-1 was my boot camp instructor and formerly a BB gunner during WW2.
He said when they fired all of their guns at once the ship was pushed IIRC 20 feet sideways.
I can not imagine what that did to their hearing.
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Thanks for posting, if I were being pushed out a plane, I'd need a muzzle on too!
Now, that was most cool. Very good. Thank you for that.
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I think if you were on deck when they fired all those bad boys your hearing was the least of your worries. I don't know for sure but Wow! Nice pics Thanks
Can anyone guestimate the pounds of black powder burned in just one salvo?
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Thanks for posting the pictures. They are great.
I read that someone said that being hit by the muzzle blast from the 16-inchers was like being run into by a truck with a mattress on the bumper. On the other hand the muzzle blast from the 5-inchers was like being hit with a big plank.
And I doubt that that 60,000 ton ship would barely move sideways when all the main battery went...
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very nice!!!!
The main-battery 16" guns used SMOKELESS powder in bags for the propellant.
900 pounds was a common load, and each of the bags of powder had a small black-powder charge to help get the powder burning correctly.
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