[Jeff Head]

Here SF city supevisors...

That's a picture of the updated/modernized Iowa with Tomahawk missiles, Harpoon missiles, CIWS and helo landing spaces aft.

[beebuster2000]

wonder what the efective range of those 16in guns is?

[Myrddin]

My dad served as gunnery officer for the port 5-inch battery on the Iowa during the Korean war. He and his men nailed the ammo dump at Wonsan Harbor on Sept 23, 1952. It wiped out the entire winter ammunition supply for the communists. See history link.

[Squantos]

Awesome pic Jeff......I have worked a few experimental 5"/38 ranges at Sandia Labs that were testing new nose and base fuzes. Each projo weighed 40 so pounds and I humped out of the surface clearance about 10K inert concrete filled rounds and destroyed another 2k of live rounds in place. My back spasms when I even read 5" 38......:o)

I have a couple of inert projos that just peeled from the nose fuze going off. They have been converted by girl friday to planters on my mantel in my office den......