Re: Naval Bombing

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Missouri had 16 inch guns.

The Japanese had 18in on the Yamato and Mus? forgot the spelling.
Interesting the Misourri displaced 60000 tons to the Yamato 75000 ton
US Ships were small in comparison

D



----- Original Message -----
From: <Jwscpd8@aol.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Naval Bombing


> I know that the battleship Missouri was on the East coast for a bit, as it
> supported my unit once or twice.  That was around Sept. of 1951 or it may
> have been August.
>
> What size guns that ship had, I do not know, but once we were told that
the
> round was on its way, we could see the shadow of the shell as it passed in
> front of us, hit the hill, then literally lift the top off and set it back
> down.
>
> I am sure, that some of the hills are not as high as they used to be once
> that shell hit.  Back in Chicago, I lived near a rail staging yard and the
> sound of the cars being humped at night and striking the coupler of the
next
> car, sounded just like the shell from the Missouri exploding on the hill.
I
> will never forget that sound.
>
>     John Sonley   5th RCT Korea 1951