ahhh paduan learner - the M110 8” was the baddest gun around.
Now I am waiting for someone who served on the New Jersey/Iowa/Wisconsin/Missouri to call me out.
Well I wasn’t going for all the really big stuff-—just what I know the Israelis to actually have. But, yeah 8” was a butt buster and so was 10 and 12. The cruiser Long Beach was the last thing I saw that had a deck full of 8” tho. I actually helped change a set of 16” gun barrels on the Jersey. We had a spare set stored at Pearl and we let her wear them out in Veetnam. And the doofusses who started Gulf War I learned all about how bad the 16” is. Our guys used them to rake the Kuwaiti beach front with them. God himself only knows how many Iraqis are buried there.