[ARC5] More on Battleship Gunnery

[Mike Everette]

A bit of probably useless trivia... I would find it very difficult to believe that any number of 5" guns would equal out to six more main battery (16 inch) guns aboard a US battleship.  By no stretch of the imagination can the range be the same, especially.  So, why would they be included in a "broadside"?  The 5s were definitely the secondary battery; and I think they were usually used as AA weapons (or am I mistaken about that).

73

Mike
W4DSE

--- On Sun, 11/4/12, gordon white <gewhite at crosslink.net> wrote:

> From: gordon white <gewhite at crosslink.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] More on Battleship Gunnery
> To: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
> Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, November 4, 2012, 8:39 PM
>       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
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