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Blue Angels from Belly and Cockpit Cams

Naval 14" Railway Guns in 1918 France

Life Aboard a WWII Carrier in the Pacific

Iowa Class Battleships: Top Fighting Ship

WWII Posters, War Bonds and Victory Gardens: a Slide Show With Music of the Era

USS_Texas Updates Bring the Past Alive for Visitors

Blue Angels: How Do They Do It?

USS Missouri Transit to Drydock

USS Nimitz – How do they do it?

Navy Command Center of the Future

USS Missouri Launch Day, 29 January 1944

USS Missouri, BB-63, Holystoning

Carrier Landing (traps) at Night Onto a Pitching Deck

Carrier Landing (traps) in Daylight Onto a Pitching Deck

Carrier Landing S3 Viking viewed from cockpit

Navy Seals v. Somali Pirates

Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun development and testing

X-47B UCAS Unmanned Combat Air System

20 mm Phalanx CIWS firing

USS North Carolina BB-55 "The Showboat"

Night Engagement at Empress Augusta Bay (November, 1943)

Soviet Naval Ships 1965-1975 (Silent)

Italian and German Sneak Craft

Aerial Torpedo Attack with Mk 13 Torpedo

Japanese Balloon Bombs

US Navy Presidential Ceremonial Honor Guard Drill Team

My Behind the Locks Panama Canal Inside Story

USS Cassin Young DD-793 20 MM Gun

USS Cassin Young DD-793 40 MM Gun

USS Cassin Young DD-793 5"/38 Caliber Gun

USS Cassin Young DD-793 Hedgehog Anti-Submarine Weapon System

USS Cassin Young DD-793 Torpedoes

Carrier Landing C-130 Hercules

JAPANESE FINAL SURRENDER USS MISSOURI

GO NAVY  A VIDEO OF US NAVY SEA AND AIR POWER.

21 CONSECUTIVE 5" SHOTS FROM A DECK GUN OF A US NAVY DESTROYER

57MM MK 110 NAVAL GUN SYSTEM

USS MISSOURI BIG GUNS FIRING   NOTICE WHEN THE MUZZLE BLAST HITS THE CAMERA     I ALWAYS LOVED STANDING ON THE PILOT HOUSE AND LOOKING DOWN AT THE BOW DURING FIRING.   THE BOW BENDS TOWARDS THE LINE OF FIRE SLIGHTLY:-)

USS MISSOURI GULF WAR TOMAHAWKS

USS MISSOURI GULF WAR GUNS

CIWS PAC FIRE ABOARD USS KITTY HAWK

CIWS PAC FIRE ABOARD USS NORMANDY

IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIP FIRES ITS 16 INCH GUNS

LOADING THE 16 INCH GUNS      THE GUN CAPTAIN IS IN CHARGE OF THE LOADING OPERATION OF THE GUN. ON HIS LEFT ARM HE HAS A BASE SLEEVE AND ON TOP OF THAT HE HAS A SLEEVE WHICH IS MADE OF A SOFT COTTON FABRIC. AFTER FIRING HE OPENS THE BREECH PLUG AND LOOKS THROUGH THE BORE OF THE GUN FOR RESIDUAL FRAGMENTS THAT MAY BE BURNING. HE WIPES THE MUSHROOM WITH HIS LEFT ARM TO CLEAN ANY RESIDUAL FROM IT.

HE THEN SIGNALS THE SPANNER OPERATOR TO SPAN THE CRADLE AND AFTER THE PROJECTILE IS RAMMED HE AND THE CRADLE OPERATOR SPREAD THE POWDER BAGS IN THE SPANNING TRAY AND PUT THE LAST 3 POWDER BAGS ON THE SPANNING TRAY.

THE GUN CAPTAIN THEN SIGNALS THE RAMMER OPERATOR TO RAM THE POWDER BAGS. THE GUN CAPTAIN WATCHES THE POWDER BAGS BEING RAMMED AND SIGNALS THE RAMMER OPERATOR TO STOP WHEN THE REAR BAG IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE WHICH IS NOT MORE THAN 6 INCHES FORWARD OF THE MUSHROOM HEAD ON THE BREECH PLUG WHEN CLOSED.

IF YOU WILL NOTICE THE GUN CAPTAIN EXAMINES THE LAST POWDER BAG TO SEE IF IT IS IN THE RIGHT POSITION AND HE MAY PULL THAT BAG SLIGHTLY TO THE REAR TO MAKE SURE IT IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE TO FIRE.

IF THE REAR OF THE REAR POWDER BAG IS MORE THAN 6 INCHES FROM THE MUSHROOM HEAD THE IGNITION PAD MAY NOT DETONATE AND THE GUN WILL MISSFIRE.

IN THE EVENT THE GUN MISSFIRES THE GUN CAPTAIN AFTER OBTAINING PERMISSION FROM THE TURRET CAPTAIN CAN IMMEDIATELY OPEN THE FIRING LOCK AND REMOVE THE OLD LOCK COMBINATION PRIMER AND REPLACE IT WITH A NEW LOCK COMBINATION PRIMER. IF AFTER TRYING SEVERAL TIMES THE GUN FAILS TO FIRE YOU MUST WAIT 30 MINUTES BEFORE OPENING THE BREECH PLUG.

USS WISCONSIN BATTLESHIP 16 INCH GUN FIRE

MIGHTY MO THE GRAND LADY COMES HOME

USS RATON PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT CIRCA 1957-8

USS TARAWA PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT CIRCA 1957-8

USS FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT CIRCA 1957-8

USS MISSOURI PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT CIRA 1957-8

USS WISCONSIN PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT CIRA 1957-8