[CrazyIvan]

“Just the sound going overhead was enough to loosen bowels.”

I read once about a spotter in a Cub in WWII that had the broadside that he called in fly right by him. That would shake you up!

[doorgunner69]

Indeed it would. Artillery fire at high anglewas carefully announced over aircraft frequencies to alert flights.

Did not prevent a salvo of 155mm or similar passing by quite close to us one time. That does get your attention.

[Calvin Locke]

One of the documentaries on the Hood v. Bismarck has an interview with a Kriegsmarine sailor that was up outside the bridge.

He remarked that a salvo from the Hood's 15" guns passed close enough above him to suck the air out of his lungs.