BB-63 USS “Mighty Mo” Missouri [historic pics, history and brief clip of firing guns]

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USS Missouri at sea in her 1980s configuration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship?wprov=sfti1

 

At the link, the top of the page starts wtih specifications. Scrolling down the page you find black and white photos (1944, Kamikaze attack, General Douglas MacArthur signing Japanese Surrender in Tokyo Bay etc.) An additional 35 photos linked at the bottom continue this series. 

 

I really liked a little video clip in the first comment beneath the post. If you click on it you can enlarge the video and turn the sound up to hear a tiny fraction of the immense sound of the guns as they fire. Here's a small image w/o sound to help those interested find the post to click on:

 

[tallyhoe]

These ships should still be afloat!!

[laplata]

“These ships should still be afloat”!!

They are.

[DFG]

USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor next to the USS Arizona memorial

[Yogafist]

This is extremely impressive, especially seeing it from the street.

https://www.pacificbattleship.com/

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[tallyhoe]

“These ships should still be afloat”!!

They are.

I mean active!!!

[tallyhoe]

I went on the USS NEW JERSEY when it was in Bremerton Washington..

[moehoward]

“I went on the USS NEW JERSEY when it was in Bremerton Washington..”

In the 70s the Missouri was over there too. It used to be over by the highway and you could go on at any hour.

[myerson]

I saw the New Jersey doing fire support with her 16” guns when I was in ‘Nam. She was standing offshore about 3 miles and when she fired the water rippled from her guns all the way to shore.

[Lurker]

For later.

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[libertylover]

I mean active!!!

Why? They weren’t much of a factor in WWII, much less now.

[laplata]

“These ships should still be afloat”!!

They are.

I mean active!!!

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Well, you should have said so.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wife and I walked the deck of the Missouri, just out of dray dock with a fresh coat of paint some years ago.

The BB had been updated with missile fireing capacity and a computer console was in the command post, along side controls from the 1940s.

She was magnificent.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Nice post--thanks!

I toured the Mighty Mo in Long Beach with my family when I was seven, made a crayon drawing for my grandmother because she was in the hospital and couldn't accompany us, and later built the Revell model:

[laplata]

Thanks for sharing that.

[Feckless]

I was attached to a Saudi unit as an adviser at al Khafji. when we moved forward in the ground war we found at least 3 Iraqi bunkers destroyed by 16" naval rounds that did not explode.

We were 10kM from Iraqi troops and the battleship and B52 bombardments reminded me of those old vibrating football games. My cot would move several feet in the tent. One of the Saudi officers complained about not being able to sleep during the bombardment. I said imagine how the Iraqis felt.

[tallyhoe]

I mean active!!!

Why? They weren’t much of a factor in WWII, much less now.

No but they sure put the fear of god in a person.. With they’re 2300 lb projectiles!!!

[tallyhoe]

I saw the New Jersey doing fire support with her 16” guns when I was in ‘Nam. She was standing offshore about 3 miles and when she fired the water rippled from her guns all the way to shore.

And they can hit target 26 miles away!!!

[tallyhoe]

In the 70s the Missouri was over there too. It used to be over by the highway and you could go on at any hour.

Impressive!!!