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So, some have a burn time fuse and some are spring loaded to detonate on impact. A would be preferable over B.
Grizz
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
Is the small band around the bottom engraving from the rifling, or is it already on the shell?? They don't all look like they have it.
Pearl Harbor Battleship Row, December 10, 1941, three days after the Japanese surprise attack - USN Photograph
And a present day picture from Google Earth, note how the shoreline of Ford Island has changed in some areas
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SMS Seydlitz “B” wing 11” Gun Turret showing damage after the battle of Jutland in 1916
One would assume such a hit would have incapacitated the gun turret, but it didn’t;
German account from “B” turret;
“In 'B' turret, there was a tremendous crash, smoke, dust, and general confusion. At the order "Clear the Turret" the turret crew rushed out, using even the traps for the empty cartridges. Then they fell in behind the turret. Then compressed air from Number 3 boiler room cleared away the smoke and gas, and the turret commander went in again, followed by his men. A shell had hit the front plate and a splinter of armour had killed the right gunlayer. The turret missed no more than two or three salvoes”
The “B” turret crew was lucky, as the rear super-firing 11” turret was also hit with almost the entire turret crew perishing in the resulting flash fire
During the course of the Battle of Jutland, Seydlitz was hit 21 times by heavy-caliber shells, twice by secondary battery shells, and once by a torpedo, She suffered a total of 98 of her crew killed and 55 wounded
Seydlitz herself fired 376 main battery shells and scored approximately 10 hits, assisting SMS Derfflinger in sinking the British Battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary
SMS Seydlitz was repaired and survived WWI only to be scuttled at Scapa Flow.
Makes one wonder how casualties inside the turret were so light. Picture is of a chunk of armour knocked from HMS New Zealand's 'X' turret during the Battle of Jutland on display at the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum in Auckland. Caption reads, "The chunk of armour plating you see here was gouged out of X turret by a German shell." Wikipedia
One would assume such a hit would have incapacitated the gun turret, but it didn’t;
German account from “B” turret;
“In 'B' turret, there was a tremendous crash, smoke, dust, and general confusion. At the order "Clear the Turret" the turret crew rushed out, using even the traps for the empty cartridges. Then they fell in behind the turret. Then compressed air from Number 3 boiler room cleared away the smoke and gas, and the turret commander went in again, followed by his men. A shell had hit the front plate and a splinter of armour had killed the right gunlayer. The turret missed no more than two or three salvoes”
The “B” turret crew was lucky, as the rear super-firing 11” turret was also hit with almost the entire turret crew perishing in the resulting flash fire
During the course of the Battle of Jutland, Seydlitz was hit 21 times by heavy-caliber shells, twice by secondary battery shells, and once by a torpedo, She suffered a total of 98 of her crew killed and 55 wounded
Seydlitz herself fired 376 main battery shells and scored approximately 10 hits, assisting SMS Derfflinger in sinking the British Battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary
SMS Seydlitz was repaired and survived WWI only to be scuttled at Scapa Flow.
Makes one wonder how casualties inside the turret were so light. Picture is of a chunk of armour knocked from HMS New Zealand's 'X' turret during the Battle of Jutland on display at the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum in Auckland. Caption reads, "The chunk of armour plating you see here was gouged out of X turret by a German shell." Wikipedia
In the fall of 1944 Armaments Minister Albert Speer reported to Hitler that recent attacks on the hydrogenation plants had indirectly affected the entire chemical industry. Speer informed him that “the supply of salt has to be stretched in order to fill the existing shells with explosives. This process has already reached the limit of acceptability.” According to the Minister, from October 1944 on German explosives consisted of 20 percent rock salt, which reduced their effectiveness correspondingly.
maple_leaf_eh
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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
Early on there were stories of the poorest tribesmen sending their kids out to pick up duds and old Russian mines. They'd get paid a little money so the TB could turn the HE into IEDs.
The pilots that bombed Hai Phong, during the Viet Nam war, described it as rearranging piles of coal.
Grizz
Same thing would happen in the DMZ in Iraq/Kuwait back in 1991. Dad would take the family out to collect mines and other ordnance as Saddam would pay a few dinars for each one recovered. Dad would then proceed to chuck them into his truck or donkey cart and occasionally one would blow up.
The engineers would then have to go out and clean up the mess. Not Good!!
This of course refers to maple leaf eh's post above.
The engineers would then have to go out and clean up the mess. Not Good!!
This of course refers to maple leaf eh's post above.
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