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Cher on tour 1989 singing "If I Could Turn Back Time". The music video for "If I Could Turn Back Time", directed by American television director Marty Callner, takes place on board the battleship USS Missouri. It depicts Cher and her band performing a concert for a couple hundred of the ship's enthusiastic crew in white ceremonial dress uniform.
USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States.
In 1991, Missouri participated in Operation Desert Storm, firing 28 Tomahawk Missiles and 759 16-inch shells at Iraqi targets along the coast. [154] Decommissioned for the last time in 1992, Missouri was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for use as a museum ship in 1999. [155]
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The 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns of the forward turret of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fire at enemy targets ashore on the Korean Peninsula on 30 January 1952 during the Korean War. Employees working with the automatic 16-inch powder stacking machine at Naval Ammunition Depot Hingham , Mass. during World War II.
USS Iowa fires a full broadside of nine 16 inch (406 mm)/50-caliber and six 5-inch (127 mm)/38-caliber guns during a target exercise. There are concussion effects on the water surface, and the 16-inch (406 mm) gun barrels are in varying degrees of recoil.
Phil Spector allegedly threatened Cher with a revolver decades before being convicted of second-degree murder in 2009.. The “If I Could Turn Back Time” singer, 78, made the startling ...
Naval gun fire control potentially involves three levels of complexity: Local control originated with primitive gun installations aimed by the individual gun crews. The director system of fire control was incorporated first into battleship designs by the Royal Navy in 1912. All guns on a single ship were laid from a central position placed as ...