[ARC5] More on Battleship Gunnery

[Geoff]

You might want to write a letter to the CNO if you dont care to accept whats 
been published

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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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