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Gasoline from the plane's fuel tanks started a fire and a 5-inch shell from another ship accidentally hit one of California ' s 5-inch guns, exploded inside the turret, and started another fire. Both fires were suppressed within twelve minutes, but the kamikaze inflicted significant casualties: 44 men were killed and another 155 were injured.
The firemen deployed hoses inside the turret. [40] After the fire was extinguished, Mortensen entered the turret to help identify the bodies of the dead crewmen. Mortensen found Hartwig's body, which he identified by a distinctive tattoo on the upper left arm, at the bottom of the 20-foot (6.1 m)-deep center gun pit instead of in the gun room ...
The U.S. Navy had the 16"/50-caliber Mark 2 guns left over from the canceled Lexington-class battlecruisers and South Dakota-class battleships of the early 1920s. However it was already apparent that the Mark 2 was too heavy to arm the North Carolina and new South Dakota (1939) battleship classes which had to adhere to the 35,000 ton standard displacement set by the Second London Naval Treaty.
Direct hits at the turret with heavy shot also had the potential to bend the spindle, which could also jam the turret. [11] [12] [13] The turret was intended to mount a pair of 15-inch (381 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns, but they were not ready in time and 11-inch (279 mm) guns were substituted. [6]
A battleship gun barrel used by the Navy in World War II that seemed destined for the scrapyard will soon get a second life. Coast Defense Study Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ...
Two sunken vessels from WWII were recently found off the coast of North Carolina. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered the Nazi U-boat 576 and the ...
Owing to the interchangeability of the guns, the battleships fitted with the 14-inch/45-caliber guns often had guns of various Marks installed on each turret. [ 3 ] In the 1930s, the Mark 1, 2, 3, and 5 were upgraded to allow for increased charges and muzzle velocities, resulting in the Mark 8, 9, 10, and 12, respectively.
A 26-year-old man is accused of shooting a stranger 10 times outside a Pasco bar last weekend. Jesus Martinez Lopez of Pasco was one of two armed gunmen outside La Cantina Bar on Court Street ...