Posted 7 years ago
fortapache
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Took a tour of the USS Iowa a while ago and I was looking through my photo albums for some classic car photos I ran into these.
One should note I am a big fan of battleships and that just about everything History and the Military Channel said about them is wrong. They were not fragile eggshells extremely vulnerable to aircraft. Only four of what were called modern battleships (post 1940) were sunk by aircraft carriers. Plus four carriers were sunk by battleships. This goes on for a while.
Anyway back to the Iowa which is now in San Pedro Harbor in Los Angeles. The battle bridge was a little tower inside the ship. It goes from where are the little windows are above B Turret to deep within the ship.
Not everything on the ship is armored only key sections thus when bombs shells etc start flying the people who run the ship go in here. The walls are over a foot of hardened steel. The periscope device to see outside is seen in photo 4.
The guns were all controlled by radar so there wasn't much of a need to see outside.
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mikelv85
Caperkid
Nicefice
jscott0363
iggy
JImam
brunswick
roddyq
This great!!!
We are very fortunate to have the Wisconsin here in Norfolk!
Thank you very much SEAN.
Thank you very much bobby725. I am going to go back when they open more of the ship. They did make those to last.
Thank you very much beyemvey. I don't think they could get it to Wisconsin so it is your gain.
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SEAN68
bobby725
blunderbuss2
beyemvey
ttomtucker
mikelv85
Thank you
Manikan
vetraio50
My grandfather was station on the USS Kentucky BB-6 during World War 1
Thank you very much ttomtucker. I looked it up and that 0was very interesting ship. They should have kept some like it around.
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SEAN68
ttomtucker
We visited USS Missouri docked in Pearl Harbor HI several yrs ago, my uncle briefly served on it during WW2, so proud to sign his name in their book
Thank you very much Newfld. That is a great story. I hear that one is especially good because it is set up in WWII configuration.
Thank you MacDaddyRico.