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SS Missouri Big guns
« on: April 18, 2010, 06:13:07 PM »
Now these are some big guns.9 total  16" guns :yike: shoot a 1900lb bomb up to 23 miles,I need me one :chuckle:
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 06:15:49 PM »
My dad was in the Navy during WWII.  He was on a DE in the Pacific.  His boat ran sub screen for the Missouri off Okinawa.  He said when they let them big guns off broadside, it would push the whole ship 2 ft. sideways in the water. 

Cool pics, thank you for the post.
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2010, 06:32:27 PM »
Couple more,The 1 pic shows how many times they fired the big guns during the first Gulf War offshore of Kuwait!
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 06:35:31 PM »
I remember as a little kid my Dad taking me on board when she was in Bremerton. I think my Mom may have some photos.

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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2010, 07:07:43 PM »
i have been on some of the bigger boats like that, they are sure cool to walk around and see all the stuff they have on them
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2010, 09:40:01 PM »
Ya, I miss going to Bremerton to climb around on it.
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2010, 09:46:30 PM »
It was either 68 or 69 at Chulai The Big Mo would lay offshore and lob those 16" shell over our heads.

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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2010, 12:06:47 PM »
AWS,the Missouri was decomissioned in 1955 and was not recomissioned until 1984 :dunno:
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2010, 12:14:34 PM »
This is an actual film made of the surrender ceremony of the Japanese to General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. 

Historical Footage: Japanese Surrender Signing Aboard Battleship Missouri Sunday Sept. 2, 1945.   

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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2010, 12:15:17 PM »
Military stuff kicks arse.

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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2010, 02:10:51 PM »
Great post!
Love these ships. These were built back when we didn't take any $hit from anybody, and we fought wars to win. Dug up some on-line pics of the big guns firing. Enjoy!

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USS Iowa, you can clearly see in this pic that this ship has been pushed sideways, looks like more than a couple of feet.
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2010, 02:20:29 PM »
that last pic looks all 9 guns at once, can you imagine the NOISE, impressive i would bet
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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2010, 03:03:28 PM »
Guns look neat firing but just wonder what happens when those shells hit the ground and how much they tear up.

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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2010, 03:33:43 PM »
My Bad, it was the New Jersey.  I didn't realise that there were two that were still operational.

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Re: SS Missouri Big guns
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2010, 03:56:04 PM »
GEZZUS It boggles the mind to try to imagine the amount of recoil energy it takes to push a ship that big the other way....

My National Guard unit had a lot of guys that did their Active Duty time in the Navy, Marines or Air Force. One of them, a former Sailor told me once that on one of the Battle Ships they would fire all the smaller guns the opposite way to off set the recoil of the 16inchers to keep the ship from moving. Thought he was BSing.....maybe not.. :yike:

 


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