Posted on 07/11/2021 10:44:28 AM PDT by ransomnote
In July 1969 I pulled into DaNang, stowed my gear and got some Zs. Sometime after dark the concrete building where I was staying shook like hell and the most ungodly sound I had ever heard followed. After instant levitation I hit the floor, crawled downstairs, and asked a guy drinking a beer what had happened. It was only the SS Missouri out in DaNang Harbor firing off its big guns in support of some Marine operation west of DaNang.
The Iowa Class are beautiful ships.
Big Mo came into San Francisco Bay for Fleet week in the late 80’s, I got to go on board.
This was after they were modernized.
San Francisco was going to be the home port, but the wackos there (there were less back then, and some actual good normal people!!) complained and that plan was abandoned.
When I got to Nam the first week or so the Barracks started to shake I thought it was an earthquake It was B-52’s doing bomb runs...
Those Battleships are awesome!!!
I went aboard the USS Missouri in Bremerton I thought it was odd that it was all mothballed but the bronze plate commemorating the surrender in Tokyo bay was still affixed to the deck.
Posted before about the horrendous noise those 16” shells make going overhead. Amazing weapons system.
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