[ARC5] More on Battleship Gunnery

[gordon white]

      An interesting  technical analysis of the details of the gunnery 
of the major batteries of the battleships, but the trees of these 
details might obscure the forest: Whatever lacks there were in the 
battleships'  fire, Adm  Jesse Oldendorf's battle line virtually wiped 
out the Japanese force trying to get through Suriago Strait to attack 
MacArthur's landing force in Leyte Gulf.  It was, as Morison noted in 
his history, the last major-caliber naval gun battle in history, and the 
last "crossing of the (enemy's) "T", a naval maneuver dating back to the 
first use of gunpowder in naval warfare, centuries earlier. Possibly 
even before that. (Surigao Strait was fought on October 25th, 1944, 
coincidentally my 11th birthday)
 - Gordon White