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You can see and tour the Iowa. Its moored at San Pedro, CA handy to the cruise ship terminal. I was on an exchange tour in the US when the USS New Jersey was shelling the bad boys in Lebanon. Reading the SITREPs in the ops center was pretty fascinating.
No different than nuclear powered aircraft carriers, the Soviet/Russian Kirov (Admiral Ushakov) class battlecruisers, or nuclear powered submarines.
The US Navy did, of course, operate nuclear powered guided missile cruisers well into the era of cruise missiles.
Fired unexploded Battleship rounds recovered at Iwo Jima and piled in a munitions scrap area - March 1945
Most of these are 14” HE shells, Note the nose fuses have been removed
LIFE Magazine Archives - W. Eugene Smith Photographer
Most of these are 14” HE shells, Note the nose fuses have been removed
LIFE Magazine Archives - W. Eugene Smith Photographer
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Could've been old leftovers from WW I.
I heard that during Korea a lot of the 25 pounder shells came from the bottom of Hong Kong bay, they fished them out and cleaned them off and sent them to Korea and had lots of duds as a result.
I heard that during Korea a lot of the 25 pounder shells came from the bottom of Hong Kong bay, they fished them out and cleaned them off and sent them to Korea and had lots of duds as a result.
This reminds me of the time I had been up for 72 hours in a 80 hour stretch while working on the lake boats, and someone woke me up after 2 hours to ask if I wanted some more OT, and I responded "no, but thanks for waking me up" I got off the floor and walked the last 4 feet to my bed where I got 2 more hours sleep.
I wouldn't be volunteering for fuse removal duty.
Grizz
Jihadis don't seem to mind doing it. Those ae the raw material for IEDs.
Read a book on Canadians in Afghanistan a while back. Repeated reports of mysterious bangs in the middle of the night. Some Ter screwing up on the job.
Grizz
Given that Iwo Jima was pounded with literally thousands of 14 in/45 and 14 in/50 shells, its remarkable that there weren't more. (Granted, Mount Suribachi, in particular, probably had many more duds buried into it.)
The 14 inch Mark 19 and Mark 22 HC (rather than HE) shells also had base fuzes and auxiliary fuzes, which you can also see removed in some of the photos.
Nice rifle in the picture....old original Armalite AR-10 with waffle magazine
I wouldn't be volunteering for fuse removal duty.
Grizz
At least you wouldn’t get wounded.
