this is to lucylulu. Sorry to hear about your father I was one of the surviviors on the ussiowa also please e-mail me his name if you would my email address is ussiowa_89@yahoo.com my name is mike drowns
@lucylulu7889 hi you dont know my but i was one of the survivors of the accident that day. im sorry for u lose. would you please email me ur fathers name. this is my daughters account my email is ussiowa_89@yahoo.com my name is mike drowns.
BTW...Who in God's name said the 16in shells were overkill for shore bombardment??? Are they stupid?? War is about killing people and breaking things, those that kill the most, break the most, or get the enemy to quit, usually win. The fear instilled by a 16in, 2700lb shell coming in makes the enemy change how much they want to fight
@dsoutherngent1 sorry but enemy looses heart when missiles appear at night from no where they are more precise on target not killing ordinary people just targeting military targets.And the cost just a couple of drones and a plane. war is about knocking out the other military battle ships no good Iran Iraq they are coastal can only fire 25 miles
@motorguzzi100 After talking to a man who fought for Germany in Sicily, who heard and felt the 16in cannon rounds coming in, I respectfully disagree. They bring the sound of inevitable death long before they hit. Though I agree about Iraq/Iran, the battlewagon won't be effective there, however, we also have the potential threat of North Korea and China, who have A LOT of shore installations that would be easily taken care of by a 8100lb salvo from the Iowa class.
@motorguzzi100 Cruise missles are wonderful tools for long range, however, the big guns are still useful. The 5in guns we're supposedly using in the Indian against pirates don't have the same range and don't instill the same fear into the lucky survivors as the 2700lb projectiles that can be dropped in a 100ft circle w/ the aid of the same drones you talked about. My point is we have VERY effective tools here, keep them available for the shore-born threats that are still out there
The Navy should have learned to check their primer fuses after the gun explosion abord the USS Newport News CA-148 in Oct 1972...but as per typical gov't operation, they didn't learn, and thus blamed everybody but their lack of oversight. God bless the sailors that died, God bless all our sailors.
@ADDMOREMAPS If the Navy really needed fire support, then they should have designed a ship to do it. The Iowa's are simply overkill for shore bombardment.
@CaptHawkeye i agree.Battleships started becoming obsolete as soon as the first aircraft carrier launched the first plane and Regans massive military spending on useless crap like retrofitting battleships and star wars technology helped greatly to put us in the financial shithole we are in today.
@ADDMOREMAPS Well the first carrier aircraft were pretty impotent (couldn't carry torpedoes or bombs over 200lbs) and even as late as 1945 is still took multi-carrier 300 plane raids to sink a well designed battleship. That's all just minor stuff though, people could see as early as the 30s that naval strategy was going to be for and about the carrier one day and that was that. Even if it couldn't easily kill capital ships (at first anyway) its flexibility and striking range ensured dominance.
@tryithere maybe but it also did alot of financial damage to this country and we are still paying for it.The U.S. spends more on its military than the next 8 or 9 countries COMBINED! Even if we cut our defense budget in half we would still spend more than any other country by far. But all we here from rethuglicans is that we should cut medicare and end social security! WTF is going on.....
@tryithere You can´t imagine how much costed that building shield arround the reactor, even today the Ukraine knows they must built another soon, but they have no money so they´re asking for help
@buckerup95 It is in (mandarin) chinese actually. The speaker is simply stating basic facts such as what happened, the date it happened, how many died, etc. It does not have a mocking tone. I would imagine that the Chinese liked those ships quite a lot! :)
The strategic reasoning for reactivating the 4 Iowa's seemed sound at the time--for all of their obsolescence, the Iowa's had the latest Tomahawk systems aboard and were a deadly threat, notionally, to any Soviet naval surface activity. It forced the USSR to expend naval resources to shadow these 'surface action groups' and deploy forces to counteract them, forces no longer able to hunt our carrier groups.
its funny im in the ARMY NATIONAL GUARD NOW .. and im attached to a artillery unit on deployment in africa.. i like eharing these guys talk about artillery .. i been asked what i think ... i look at them and go .. your 105 is good .. but a 16 inch... shit you want a swimming pool made .. launch this volkswagon .... lol ... i usually get a few who make a snide remark that the 16 was not accurate ... horse shit .. FRDM7 I REMEMEBR CORAL SEA CV-43.. DID ALOT OF UNREPS WITH HER .. AWESOME SHIP
its funny im in the ARMY NATIONAL GUARD NOW .. and im attached to a artillery unit on deployment in africa.. i like eharing these guys talk about artillery .. i been asked what i think ... i look at them and go .. your 105 is good .. but a 16 inch... shit you want a swimming pool made .. launch this volkswagon .... lol ... i usually get a few who make a snide remark that the 16 was accurate ... horse shit .. FRDM7 I REMEMEBR CORAL SEA CV-43.. DID ALOT OF UNREPS WITH HER .. AWESOME SHIP
I AGREE WITH spurlicos many comments are from people who never served in the NAVY,. they offer an oppinon that they know this and that ,, for me . I SERVED IN THE NAVY .. USS SEATTLE AOE-3 7/11 OF THE 7 SEAS.. the iowa was apart of the 6th fleet .. so was my ship ... to this day i think about those 47 men who passed on and are in a better place .. rememebr there happiness rememebr there devition to duty .. dont bicker about who did this who did that .. it was a mistake. but rememebr them .
its not an accident, it was a homo relationship break-up btween some two gay sailors, one of them sucide using a bomb or something because of the affair break up.
am dead 100% serious, read it up in wikipedia or something. seriously no joke or making fun it was a gay relationship end that caused this explosion
read it in wikipedia. go to wikipedia and type in the search bar "BB61 uss iowa" and a full page about USS iowa will appear. the accident is listed in the page, hope this helps.
There's a video on here of them firing Iowa class guns from inside the turret and it's amazing that this didn't happen more often. Six bags of powder being loaded is an accident waiting to happen. One static spark, an ember from a previous shot or unstable powder among other things can only be controlled so far.
Wow. It's amazing how most of the comments are, one way or another, focused on who did what wrong. Yes, the Navy shouldn't have drawn the conclusions that they did. Yes, mistakes were made. But does bickering about it bring any of them back? We learned from this mistake and the new standards ensure this won't happen again. The last thing the memory of these 47 men needs is a bunch of (mostly non-Navy) youtube users to bicker about how the hell everything was handled. It's over and done.
@card797 you realize that shit happens is not a good reply considering half my div. and my two best friends were killed in shit happens have a little more respect
I was there, it was my ship and they were my friends. It wasn't really a cover-up as to give an answer quickly. It took more than two years to determine a probable cause.
@uskat2000 i was there too GMG T-3 and it was known it was an accident from the start, those turrets where accidents waiting to happen , and nothing to do with the crews ,, but the navy had to cover it up and tried to first blame GMG3 Truitt, but he was still alive so they blamed it on GMG2 hARTWIG , saying he was "gay". because he was dead and could not fight back , yea a great day for the navy , it was worth the fight to make the navy admit it was an accident ..
I've read the books and knowing what I know of military, it was not a surprise to see the massive cover up the navy did to save their ass. I wish that Battleships were still around today. Iowa was anchored in a backwater bay in San Fransisco in a mothball condition, waiting for a transfer into private non profit hands. I would like to see it parked in Charleston SC, but that means towing it back to the east coast.
The senior chief who was our indoctrination officer in Gunner's A School assigned the men to that gun mount. He said don't believe the news media or the political spin or conspiracy theorists, it was an accident, pure and simple.
Being a gunner is dangerous in and of itself and your shipmates lives as well as yours can end rapidly, just comes with the job. Either human or mechanical failure was cause, probably never be 100% sure.
Those with some theory forget about the families left behind.
I was a crew member of the Iowa on that tragic day. I was in charge of and the Mount Captain of mount 54, Port-Side. Five of my best friends died in the fire that day. At that time i was a GMG2 ,Gunners Mate Guns second class Larry Daniels. To this day i still have not watched the movie. My psychiatrist advise against it. Right now you can find me at the Miami V.A. Hospital inpatient. They service connected me 70% for PTSD. Would love to talk with others that were among the Iowa Crew that day.
@larryd41 I was an OS and was stationed there, but I was not on board that day. I knew Ziegler a little bit, I had worked in turret 2 during GQ. When Moosally came on board and started his shit I knew there was gonna be trouble, but I couldnt have imagined anything like that. I worked in CIC and Strike Warfare mostly.
all this seems strangely reminiscent of the situation on the Japanese Battleship Mutsu. It blew up at anchor during the Pacific war. The admiralty blamed it on a disgruntled seamen facing theft charges. Just a scapegoat to shift the blame from the inept cordite handling system. Things clearly hadn't changed by the time the Iowa's tragedy occured.
went to a military reenactment yesteday and BB62 reps there said USS IOWA is trying to be ported in Los Angeles ports o call as museum so I gave them $100 donation and volunteered to help. you can support them too if you can.
If that explosion had managed to to flash-back through the ammo loading ports it would probaly have ignited the main magazine. I understand they immeadiately flooded that turrets magazine.
The jews have a much better way to destroy the USA than all the armys of the world! They are performing that just now and have worked longt times for that! Hahaha! After the US they will tray to destroy the rest of the world! The Chineese , will they be able to stopp them?
@Captain25011: No, that was the Navy's attempt to shift blame and make Clayton Hartwig a scapegoat. The powder bags had been stored improperly, and the gun crews were undertrained. Later tests at Sandia National Labs proved that an over-ram could cause a spark and ignite the propellent charges. ANd Voiceonthehill is correct as well, this sort of accident had ahppened before (IIRC) on the USS Mississippi. Full disclosure: My best friend was in turret two that day. I miss him.
Battleship guns have always been very risky to operate. Entire ships have been damaged or destroyed by internal explosions. Look at Royal Oak, Mutsu, Arizona, Hood, Barham, Invincible, Queen Mary, Vanguard. All sunk because of the unstable nature of cordite and the effect of improperly handling it or it being subject to force due to capsizing or enemy bombardment.
@HelmutVillam The Arizona was destroyed by a bomb from a Japanese plane in WW2. she didn't blow up from internal explosion. the Japs hit her with a bomb.
hit with a bomb, which detonated in ammo magazine, flashback into cordite chamber because all the doors and hatches were open during the hot weather. once the cordite went up the ship was doomed. a bomb alone could NOT rip a gaping hole in a Battleship's hull.
@HelmutVillam true. well i feel bad for our boys cause will my family is a military family now. and that hurts when someone like the taliban attacks and kills our boys. cause i think about it and my brother is in the navy. and we don't know what could happen to him or anyone.
thankfully the navy seems to be the 'safest' armed service to be in at the moment, for most Coalition nations. that said the job done by them is no less valiant and I respect members of all the services.
@HelmutVillam Same here. if u have a country and u don't take care of ur soldiers. u don't deserve a military. cause one day they will backfire and come after u.
@dougstiro correct she didn't blow up, she was sunk at scapa flow in 1939 while the crew slept in their bunks, though one of the most famous footages of the war though was of the queen elizabeth class hms barham rolling over and blowing up, it was filmed as it happened, i think over 800 men were killed.
you guys never saw this on the news before it got censored did you? It was some gay dude who was fed up with everything decided to commit suicide so he didnt lock the breech and killed numerous men. look it up but thats the true story. anything else ppl say is a cover up
Its been a while, but I do remember them serving that crap up as reason for the blast. They was indirectly insinuated (through the media) that they had suspicions of a depressed, suicidal, gay ship mate. Its like, don't take it personally, "we had to try..." The powers that be feel obligated to blur the facts and truth with homophobia, bigotry, etc. because they know even if we don't buy it, we can be distracted long enough to for them to find another scapegoat deserving or not.
@lynn125lynn either way it is true that the guy who was on duty was in fact gay and he was depressed, his medical physician even said so...ya, and in fact you can't see the origional footage talking about him being homosexual because somehow that's giving gays a bad image
itz a war ship that is meant to kill people. the shells are designed to explode and kill people. the people handling shellz that kill people often get killed themselvez. let us remember that we feel much better when we have the ability to kill the other people without them killing us. let us thank these brave men for giving us that ability. let us alwayz kill the other people first before they kill us.
I have read the book,it shows the lengths some people will go to shift the blame from them selves.I was surprised that both the shell and bag charges were made in 1941.Brave men everyone. R.I.P.
Remember this well. This is what happens when moral is very low and training has lapsed for several months. Capt. Moosally was into the engines, where the previous was into gunnery, and Moosally hadn't schedule any main batt. training for months. No training, serious and fatal mistakes. US 16" gun turrets were some of the safest in the world with many redundent safety systems and protocals. A sad example of what happens when discipline and training are allowed to lapse. May they rest in Peace.
According to USN tests and extensive tests by Sandia National Laboratories after the explosion: 1) the bags were very stable, even if dropped from 100ft! 2) And over ram of 24" like that occurred in the center gun, could cause such an explosion. The rammer was operated by feel and experience, at the time there was no contols for rammer speed and distance. Unfortunately, because much of the evidence was removed and destroyed so no definitive answer will ever truly be known.
as patrick winslow has stated .. READ THE BOOK if yu dont know try reading .. to many morons trying to be professionals in something they have no frocking clue over .. GOD BLESS THOSE LOST ..
i researched this and it was a sailor commiting sucide after having an affair not because of sabatoge or an old powder bag(because there only kept for so long before being disposed of) or a malfuction with the gun
The cordite bags are releativly stable if handled and stored correctly. Modifing the bags by changing the amount of cordite in them for gun accuracy can lead to an unsafe evolution. Once you ram the projectile in, the powder bags and the lead foils and then close the beach you may overcompress the powder and cause a back blast in the turet gun room. Plus they did not have material conditions set properly which allowed the oxygen to be sucked out of the turret spaces.
Right after the Iowa disaster, the America (aircraft carrier) suffered a similar fate. Some of the sailors blamed the former CO, Captain Lair, because he pushed the America out of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard before it was ready.
@dawgdan1 In 1989 USS Iowa undertook a routine training mission. While gunners were making ready to fire the 16 inch central gun on turret no.2, a terrible accident occurred without warning. (BANG) In this tragedy where no one can find the cause, 47 officers and crew died.
This was one where inept Navy investigators could not come up with an explanation, so the Navy seeking a scapegoat claimed to have irrefutable proof that a suicidal Gay sailor was to blame. The Navy came off looking like total turds and they had to apologize.
Just love all the comments from the assfucks who were'nt there. Well, I was, on the 04 level bridge when T2 exploded. I knew every single man who died in that explosion. I would really appreciate those who were'nt there (99% of the posters), to keep thier bullshit comentaries to themselves.
@Deputydog857 I was an OS and was stationed there, but I was not on board that day. I knew Ziegler a little bit, I had worked in turret 2 during GQ. When Moosally came on board and started his shit I knew there was gonna be trouble, but I couldnt have imagined anything like that. I worked in CIC and Strike Warfare mostly.
Respond to this video... I was an OS and was stationed there, but I was not on board that day. I knew Ziegler a little bit, I had worked in turret 2 during GQ. When Moosally came on board and started his shit I knew there was gonna be trouble, but I couldnt have imagined anything like that. I worked in CIC and Strike Warfare mostly.
@zhaviator aye you have to keep in mind that the part with the guns on the surface is only the top of a turret, those things go almost all the way down to the bottom of the ship and theres a lot of stuff that needs human operation in those things
@Deputydog857 I totally sympathize, but you got to know that most of the posters here are kids and teenagers who need a good beating to keep them in line. Just my opinion.
Haveing been a crew member on the Mighty Moe BB63 and exploring the ship on magazine patrols and having geneal quarters in the powder flats and powder magazines the reasons an inicident of such a nature happens can have varied reasons. My rateing was GMG3 and i worked in ordnance division and was one of the ships amorers. I don't beleave in accidents nor do i beleave it was sabatoge. More a combination of improper material conditions being set in the turret and ill advided powder bag mod.
@Deputydog857 True, the comments on youtube are rarely intelligent. But does it occur to you that these men died in the defense of citizens' right to say what they want? From the research (two books, countless articles) I've done, including comments from men who were there and sworn testimony, there were training, maintenance, and discipline problems on the ship.
@brucec43, @Pigroota Don't you think that the men who died, protecting said freedoms, should be honored instead of some of the things said on here? What if you were in his place, knowing each one of those men, each of their faces, which ones had a family and kids waiting back home, what would you do? People need to learn respect, and to keep their negative comments to themselves, and we have a freedom of speech to an extent. Slandering dead sailors who fought for your freedom is not right.
@Waroftheworlds112 Of course slander is not cool. But the concept that "if you weren't there, stfu" isn't either. Freedom of speech is extended even to idiots, and it's always been important for civillians to weigh in on military matters as a guard against coverups. Not all the comments were libelous(slander is spoken). A few of the dead were probably even culpable in the conditions that led to the accident (the turret officer, for example). I was involved in a coverup myself, btw.
@brucec43 I think all Americans have been involved in a cover up once in their lives, but to be on the ship when it happened, that feeling that you can't do anything to help while your crew mates are dying not even a hundred feet from you. Its disrespectful to slander, but its sick t slander those that died protecting your freedoms. He is trying to protect the memory of his fallen comrades, let him be.
@Deputydog857 Yeah man i agree. But why the fuck would you care about what is posted on this backwards medium? You give yourself a proxy and provide criticism but how does anyone know that you are actually QM? This medium is a social construct. It's very hard to provide objectivity in a subjective medium. So I conclude that you are not who you say you are, otherwise you would honor their memory with solemnity and in private, not with overt aggression. My comment is factual, not opinion
@Deputydog857 I'm 18 and I don't know what its like to have that happen, but you sir have my thanks, sympathy and support. Thank you for serving and putting us ahead of you. You and the memory of those men deserve better than this.
I would like to see a connection for the fire hose on the outside of the turret, (and things like that,) to connect the hose to to get water right inside without trying to aim it from the outside like they were doing.
@kennnmoran If memory serves, I believe the other two guns were already loaded and the amount of water being applied was an attempt to keep the loaded guns from "cook off".
@BBCKT Sadly the sprinkler system inside the turret was inoperable due to neglect and negligence. It may have saved some lives in the lower sections of the turret. Ultimately the captain is responsible for this sort of thing, but it took at leas a few people not doing their jobs along the way, or just not caring to put their own careers on the line to get the word out that the ship was not safe. A phone call to a news outlet would have sufficed. Instead a BS "loyalty" culture killed men.
I'm not talking about the people. The Iowa is just so solidly built that she could probably hold together if her entire magazine went up. Many other ships that suffer an explosion usually require massive repair and face being broken up for scrap.
My dads brother, aka my uncle rob was killed in the explosion on turret two, his name was robert backherms. he gave his life for ours, im greatful every day and wish i could have known him.
@Cellphonereviews4u your uncle rob didn't give his life for ours. it was a tragic accident he was involved in during peace time operations. if it was war time then you could've said that and i would not be correcting you right now for getting things twisted.
Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the Iowa disaster. I was there and lost some good friends that day. Rest easy my shipmates, although you have been gone a long time you have not been forgotten.
it is because of Iowa using the china-made round......
motszwa 1 week ago
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defiant18 4 weeks ago
This is a terribly sad video. My heart goes out to those who lost their loved ones in this accident.
jubdub1 4 weeks ago
May they rest in peace
k2477456 3 months ago
@dregh94cr Actually, you probably make the same mistake i make:
Today we use a lot of those bulky, aweful looking grey colored ships.
but they are all Frigate classes, while this is a Battleship class.
The armor on this ship is like 1-2 meters, and the one on the frigates is not even 50cm if im correct
13Psycho13 3 months ago
this is to lucylulu. Sorry to hear about your father I was one of the surviviors on the ussiowa also please e-mail me his name if you would my email address is ussiowa_89@yahoo.com my name is mike drowns
dearzoey 3 months ago
y u no aim ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
Kdssow 3 months ago
This is one peace of metal warfare....it sits in my backyard in Sansui bay along the ghost fleet.,She is magnificent,
bweber2k 3 months ago
This happened the day i was born
Tbones4lunch 3 months ago
my dad was on this ship and he is 1 of the survivors but he dided in jan.
lucylulu7889 3 months ago
@lucylulu7889 hi you dont know my but i was one of the survivors of the accident that day. im sorry for u lose. would you please email me ur fathers name. this is my daughters account my email is ussiowa_89@yahoo.com my name is mike drowns.
dearzoey 3 months ago
accidents happen in all navy's through time, say what? and by the way there were people in there thats a horrible clip.
hazad626 4 months ago
lol they got pwnd
mza131313 4 months ago
Shit happens.
rhall4th 4 months ago
holy shit 47 people... By the way the guy below me is a fucking tranny.
bakedinspiration 4 months ago
Cool! way to go!
AllofStewie 4 months ago
BTW...Who in God's name said the 16in shells were overkill for shore bombardment??? Are they stupid?? War is about killing people and breaking things, those that kill the most, break the most, or get the enemy to quit, usually win. The fear instilled by a 16in, 2700lb shell coming in makes the enemy change how much they want to fight
dsoutherngent1 6 months ago
@dsoutherngent1 sorry but enemy looses heart when missiles appear at night from no where they are more precise on target not killing ordinary people just targeting military targets.And the cost just a couple of drones and a plane. war is about knocking out the other military battle ships no good Iran Iraq they are coastal can only fire 25 miles
motorguzzi100 5 months ago
@motorguzzi100 After talking to a man who fought for Germany in Sicily, who heard and felt the 16in cannon rounds coming in, I respectfully disagree. They bring the sound of inevitable death long before they hit. Though I agree about Iraq/Iran, the battlewagon won't be effective there, however, we also have the potential threat of North Korea and China, who have A LOT of shore installations that would be easily taken care of by a 8100lb salvo from the Iowa class.
dsoutherngent1 5 months ago
@motorguzzi100 Cruise missles are wonderful tools for long range, however, the big guns are still useful. The 5in guns we're supposedly using in the Indian against pirates don't have the same range and don't instill the same fear into the lucky survivors as the 2700lb projectiles that can be dropped in a 100ft circle w/ the aid of the same drones you talked about. My point is we have VERY effective tools here, keep them available for the shore-born threats that are still out there
dsoutherngent1 5 months ago
The Navy should have learned to check their primer fuses after the gun explosion abord the USS Newport News CA-148 in Oct 1972...but as per typical gov't operation, they didn't learn, and thus blamed everybody but their lack of oversight. God bless the sailors that died, God bless all our sailors.
dsoutherngent1 6 months ago
shit happens
jon549260 6 months ago
thats cause it didnt have a american flag on it
DJsharp707 6 months ago
im confused why did it skip a bunch of frames before the explosion im not saying its not real i just don't get why frames are spiked
lovegunz1 6 months ago
And dont get me wrong the Iowa was a great ship for its time and the explosion was a great tragedy.
ADDMOREMAPS 7 months ago
RIP.and thanks to reagan for upgrading these useless dinosaurs at the expense of the American taxpayer.
ADDMOREMAPS 7 months ago
@ADDMOREMAPS If the Navy really needed fire support, then they should have designed a ship to do it. The Iowa's are simply overkill for shore bombardment.
CaptHawkeye 7 months ago
@CaptHawkeye i agree.Battleships started becoming obsolete as soon as the first aircraft carrier launched the first plane and Regans massive military spending on useless crap like retrofitting battleships and star wars technology helped greatly to put us in the financial shithole we are in today.
ADDMOREMAPS 7 months ago
@ADDMOREMAPS Well the first carrier aircraft were pretty impotent (couldn't carry torpedoes or bombs over 200lbs) and even as late as 1945 is still took multi-carrier 300 plane raids to sink a well designed battleship. That's all just minor stuff though, people could see as early as the 30s that naval strategy was going to be for and about the carrier one day and that was that. Even if it couldn't easily kill capital ships (at first anyway) its flexibility and striking range ensured dominance.
CaptHawkeye 7 months ago
@ADDMOREMAPS Star wars technology did a lot towards bankrupting the USSR.
tryithere 5 months ago
@tryithere maybe but it also did alot of financial damage to this country and we are still paying for it.The U.S. spends more on its military than the next 8 or 9 countries COMBINED! Even if we cut our defense budget in half we would still spend more than any other country by far. But all we here from rethuglicans is that we should cut medicare and end social security! WTF is going on.....
ADDMOREMAPS 5 months ago
@tryithere Chernobil was USSR´s bankrupt, since late 50´s yanqueeland was much stronger in almost any field
Mad69sur 4 months ago
@Mad69sur That just gave them a radiating personality.
tryithere 4 months ago
@tryithere You can´t imagine how much costed that building shield arround the reactor, even today the Ukraine knows they must built another soon, but they have no money so they´re asking for help
Mad69sur 4 months ago
and of fregin course the fregin japs are mocking us
buckerup95 7 months ago
@buckerup95 That sounds less like Japanese to me, it's feels a bit more closer to Chinese.
Firestorm2900 7 months ago
@Firestorm2900 It's not Japanese, I know basic Japanese.
Plur307 6 months ago
@buckerup95 It is in (mandarin) chinese actually. The speaker is simply stating basic facts such as what happened, the date it happened, how many died, etc. It does not have a mocking tone. I would imagine that the Chinese liked those ships quite a lot! :)
brainburrito 6 months ago
pathetic and curouisly france was not try to save the jean bar or the richelieu
pathhéthic that the las cruser of france will be scrapped
pathetic tha the royal navy was not save the warspite
pathetic that the iowa class became patrioc symbol
pathetic that nixon use this boat for political reason
druisten3 7 months ago
The strategic reasoning for reactivating the 4 Iowa's seemed sound at the time--for all of their obsolescence, the Iowa's had the latest Tomahawk systems aboard and were a deadly threat, notionally, to any Soviet naval surface activity. It forced the USSR to expend naval resources to shadow these 'surface action groups' and deploy forces to counteract them, forces no longer able to hunt our carrier groups.
Planetar17 7 months ago
its funny im in the ARMY NATIONAL GUARD NOW .. and im attached to a artillery unit on deployment in africa.. i like eharing these guys talk about artillery .. i been asked what i think ... i look at them and go .. your 105 is good .. but a 16 inch... shit you want a swimming pool made .. launch this volkswagon .... lol ... i usually get a few who make a snide remark that the 16 was not accurate ... horse shit .. FRDM7 I REMEMEBR CORAL SEA CV-43.. DID ALOT OF UNREPS WITH HER .. AWESOME SHIP
cutter043 7 months ago
its funny im in the ARMY NATIONAL GUARD NOW .. and im attached to a artillery unit on deployment in africa.. i like eharing these guys talk about artillery .. i been asked what i think ... i look at them and go .. your 105 is good .. but a 16 inch... shit you want a swimming pool made .. launch this volkswagon .... lol ... i usually get a few who make a snide remark that the 16 was accurate ... horse shit .. FRDM7 I REMEMEBR CORAL SEA CV-43.. DID ALOT OF UNREPS WITH HER .. AWESOME SHIP
cutter043 7 months ago
I AGREE WITH spurlicos many comments are from people who never served in the NAVY,. they offer an oppinon that they know this and that ,, for me . I SERVED IN THE NAVY .. USS SEATTLE AOE-3 7/11 OF THE 7 SEAS.. the iowa was apart of the 6th fleet .. so was my ship ... to this day i think about those 47 men who passed on and are in a better place .. rememebr there happiness rememebr there devition to duty .. dont bicker about who did this who did that .. it was a mistake. but rememebr them .
cutter043 7 months ago
how many jackasses have copied the same clip
Thearmorcav 8 months ago
I think it's creepy that I just watched 49 men die instantly. You don't see it.. but that's a good thing.
Iluvbuckethead1 8 months ago
yi jiu ba jiu nian = 1989 btw
PSP5559 8 months ago
Amazing how powerful the 16 inch is, and when it misfires, it really messes someones day up
jking6155 8 months ago
battleships so useless
1ownjoo2 8 months ago
@1ownjoo2 How do you work that out?
Factnotfictionpeople 8 months ago
@Factnotfictionpeople
Too Expensive, and destroyers, and smaller ships these days can do the same or better precision wise.
1ownjoo2 8 months ago
@1ownjoo2 You have a point - a very good one. But when it comes to sustained offshore heavy shelling, you can't beat the old 15-16 inch! :-)
Factnotfictionpeople 8 months ago
its not an accident, it was a homo relationship break-up btween some two gay sailors, one of them sucide using a bomb or something because of the affair break up.
am dead 100% serious, read it up in wikipedia or something. seriously no joke or making fun it was a gay relationship end that caused this explosion
dividednation44 9 months ago
@dividednation44 It's true... All of it.
owl1970 9 months ago
@dividednation44 really? give me a link! please
iAirsoft69 9 months ago
@iAirsoft69 sorry youtube does'nt allow links
read it in wikipedia. go to wikipedia and type in the search bar "BB61 uss iowa" and a full page about USS iowa will appear. the accident is listed in the page, hope this helps.
dividednation44 9 months ago
@dividednation44
No, it was an accident. It's believed to have been caused by overramming of the powder, though it hasn't been proved conclusively.
However, at no point in the investigation did they find any signs of sabotage of any kind.
chrthiel 8 months ago
There's a video on here of them firing Iowa class guns from inside the turret and it's amazing that this didn't happen more often. Six bags of powder being loaded is an accident waiting to happen. One static spark, an ember from a previous shot or unstable powder among other things can only be controlled so far.
tryithere 9 months ago
aw fuck, it's in chinese
vk45de 10 months ago 13
Wow. It's amazing how most of the comments are, one way or another, focused on who did what wrong. Yes, the Navy shouldn't have drawn the conclusions that they did. Yes, mistakes were made. But does bickering about it bring any of them back? We learned from this mistake and the new standards ensure this won't happen again. The last thing the memory of these 47 men needs is a bunch of (mostly non-Navy) youtube users to bicker about how the hell everything was handled. It's over and done.
spurlicos82 10 months ago 50
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PhotoShopChannel 7 months ago
@spurlicos82 what happened?
DJsharp707 6 months ago
@spurlicos82 Yeah, this is one of those line-of-duty sort of things. You are working with a huge gun in the middle of the ocean. Shit will happen.
card797 4 months ago
@card797 you realize that shit happens is not a good reply considering half my div. and my two best friends were killed in shit happens have a little more respect
dearzoey 3 months ago
I was there, it was my ship and they were my friends. It wasn't really a cover-up as to give an answer quickly. It took more than two years to determine a probable cause.
uskat2000 10 months ago 3
@uskat2000 i was there too GMG T-3 and it was known it was an accident from the start, those turrets where accidents waiting to happen , and nothing to do with the crews ,, but the navy had to cover it up and tried to first blame GMG3 Truitt, but he was still alive so they blamed it on GMG2 hARTWIG , saying he was "gay". because he was dead and could not fight back , yea a great day for the navy , it was worth the fight to make the navy admit it was an accident ..
mrgunnersmate 10 months ago 2
my 16 inch had an even bigger accident
Dlosch8DRK 11 months ago
I've read the books and knowing what I know of military, it was not a surprise to see the massive cover up the navy did to save their ass. I wish that Battleships were still around today. Iowa was anchored in a backwater bay in San Fransisco in a mothball condition, waiting for a transfer into private non profit hands. I would like to see it parked in Charleston SC, but that means towing it back to the east coast.
1jazzy8hula 11 months ago
may the souls of the 47 crew man rest in peace knowing they will be remembered by those who stood by them druning active duty
DUBMANS 11 months ago
Блин... Жаль погибших. R.I.P.
prinzdms 1 year ago
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21 gun salute to my brothers on the IOWA BB61 from a prior service GMG2 POIC Lower Powder Handleing Space Turret 2 BB62 1988-1989
battleship62 1 year ago
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battleship62 1 year ago
Execellent comment! When lapses of this type takes place it is up to the petty officers and chiefs to reinforce trianinf and disipline.
SCHRUBBE1966 1 year ago
MADE IN CHINA?
93darylfelix 1 year ago
My dad was on the USS Inchon when this happened. He was 20 miles away when this happened. His ship rushed to the Iowa to help
x12tigertwix 1 year ago
Ah yes, Navy DC. "Fire is out..." "Can we stop spraying now?" "How bout now?" "FLOODING! FLOODING IN FORWARD HULL SPACES!" "Ok, stop spraying now." "Stage reflash watch."
dorgodorato 1 year ago
Crap, that turret blew up from the inside!
Vectoreenio 1 year ago
The senior chief who was our indoctrination officer in Gunner's A School assigned the men to that gun mount. He said don't believe the news media or the political spin or conspiracy theorists, it was an accident, pure and simple.
Being a gunner is dangerous in and of itself and your shipmates lives as well as yours can end rapidly, just comes with the job. Either human or mechanical failure was cause, probably never be 100% sure.
Those with some theory forget about the families left behind.
Lionwolf0777 1 year ago
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WOW! amazing firepower! it would be better if that ship destroyed herself by blowing up her ammunition storage and.......................BOOM!!!!
zergmon9999 1 year ago
@zergmon9999 u dick head
sandratease 1 year ago
@zergmon9999 You Sir, are an ass.
Corsair092 1 year ago
@zergmon9999 Dude. Go fuck yourself. Seriously.
MrTrekkar 1 year ago
@zergmon9999 I hope you rot, you are a disrespectful little ingrate. I hope you run head on into a tree and............... BOOM!!!!
Waroftheworlds112 10 months ago
I was a crew member of the Iowa on that tragic day. I was in charge of and the Mount Captain of mount 54, Port-Side. Five of my best friends died in the fire that day. At that time i was a GMG2 ,Gunners Mate Guns second class Larry Daniels. To this day i still have not watched the movie. My psychiatrist advise against it. Right now you can find me at the Miami V.A. Hospital inpatient. They service connected me 70% for PTSD. Would love to talk with others that were among the Iowa Crew that day.
larryd41 1 year ago
@larryd41 I was an OS and was stationed there, but I was not on board that day. I knew Ziegler a little bit, I had worked in turret 2 during GQ. When Moosally came on board and started his shit I knew there was gonna be trouble, but I couldnt have imagined anything like that. I worked in CIC and Strike Warfare mostly.
toobie11 1 year ago
all this seems strangely reminiscent of the situation on the Japanese Battleship Mutsu. It blew up at anchor during the Pacific war. The admiralty blamed it on a disgruntled seamen facing theft charges. Just a scapegoat to shift the blame from the inept cordite handling system. Things clearly hadn't changed by the time the Iowa's tragedy occured.
HelmutVillam 1 year ago
went to a military reenactment yesteday and BB62 reps there said USS IOWA is trying to be ported in Los Angeles ports o call as museum so I gave them $100 donation and volunteered to help. you can support them too if you can.
battleship62 1 year ago
If that explosion had managed to to flash-back through the ammo loading ports it would probaly have ignited the main magazine. I understand they immeadiately flooded that turrets magazine.
derbbus 1 year ago
@derbbus They mistakenly flooded the rear magizine as well, I read...
TerraceYouth 1 year ago
The jews have a much better way to destroy the USA than all the armys of the world! They are performing that just now and have worked longt times for that! Hahaha! After the US they will tray to destroy the rest of the world! The Chineese , will they be able to stopp them?
sjokolade777 1 year ago
@Captain25011: No, that was the Navy's attempt to shift blame and make Clayton Hartwig a scapegoat. The powder bags had been stored improperly, and the gun crews were undertrained. Later tests at Sandia National Labs proved that an over-ram could cause a spark and ignite the propellent charges. ANd Voiceonthehill is correct as well, this sort of accident had ahppened before (IIRC) on the USS Mississippi. Full disclosure: My best friend was in turret two that day. I miss him.
Corsair092 1 year ago
@Corsair092 Were you a crew member as well?
toobie11 1 year ago
@toobie11: No, I was not a crew member. I was in college when the Iowa incident happened. My best friend was in Turret Two, and was killed that day.
Corsair092 1 year ago
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Corsair092 1 year ago
Battleship guns have always been very risky to operate. Entire ships have been damaged or destroyed by internal explosions. Look at Royal Oak, Mutsu, Arizona, Hood, Barham, Invincible, Queen Mary, Vanguard. All sunk because of the unstable nature of cordite and the effect of improperly handling it or it being subject to force due to capsizing or enemy bombardment.
HelmutVillam 1 year ago
@HelmutVillam The Arizona was destroyed by a bomb from a Japanese plane in WW2. she didn't blow up from internal explosion. the Japs hit her with a bomb.
USSWISCONSIN64 1 year ago
@USSWISCONSIN64
hit with a bomb, which detonated in ammo magazine, flashback into cordite chamber because all the doors and hatches were open during the hot weather. once the cordite went up the ship was doomed. a bomb alone could NOT rip a gaping hole in a Battleship's hull.
HelmutVillam 1 year ago
@HelmutVillam true. well i feel bad for our boys cause will my family is a military family now. and that hurts when someone like the taliban attacks and kills our boys. cause i think about it and my brother is in the navy. and we don't know what could happen to him or anyone.
USSWISCONSIN64 1 year ago
@USSWISCONSIN64
thankfully the navy seems to be the 'safest' armed service to be in at the moment, for most Coalition nations. that said the job done by them is no less valiant and I respect members of all the services.
HelmutVillam 1 year ago
@HelmutVillam Same here. if u have a country and u don't take care of ur soldiers. u don't deserve a military. cause one day they will backfire and come after u.
USSWISCONSIN64 1 year ago
@HelmutVillam didnt think Royal Oak blew up, thought she just rolled over and sank?
dougstiro 11 months ago
@dougstiro correct she didn't blow up, she was sunk at scapa flow in 1939 while the crew slept in their bunks, though one of the most famous footages of the war though was of the queen elizabeth class hms barham rolling over and blowing up, it was filmed as it happened, i think over 800 men were killed.
pramboy09 11 months ago
@pramboy09 sad to watch it knowing that there are men scrambling for there life when she goes.
dougstiro 11 months ago
@HelmutVillam royal oak didn't blow up, she simply rolled over after being torpeoded in 1939 at scapa flow, with most of her crew.
pramboy09 11 months ago
you guys never saw this on the news before it got censored did you? It was some gay dude who was fed up with everything decided to commit suicide so he didnt lock the breech and killed numerous men. look it up but thats the true story. anything else ppl say is a cover up
Captain25011 1 year ago
@Captain25011
Its been a while, but I do remember them serving that crap up as reason for the blast. They was indirectly insinuated (through the media) that they had suspicions of a depressed, suicidal, gay ship mate. Its like, don't take it personally, "we had to try..." The powers that be feel obligated to blur the facts and truth with homophobia, bigotry, etc. because they know even if we don't buy it, we can be distracted long enough to for them to find another scapegoat deserving or not.
lynn125lynn 1 year ago
@lynn125lynn either way it is true that the guy who was on duty was in fact gay and he was depressed, his medical physician even said so...ya, and in fact you can't see the origional footage talking about him being homosexual because somehow that's giving gays a bad image
Captain25011 1 year ago
this shouldnt be bad as the one on the Arizona!
SQUIRALBOY43 1 year ago
if ya weren't there you don't know..
hekatedarkmoon 1 year ago
itz a war ship that is meant to kill people. the shells are designed to explode and kill people. the people handling shellz that kill people often get killed themselvez. let us remember that we feel much better when we have the ability to kill the other people without them killing us. let us thank these brave men for giving us that ability. let us alwayz kill the other people first before they kill us.
derpotni3riots 1 year ago
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darkmaster24i1 1 year ago
@darkmaster24i1 wow how old are you? 12? seriously! 47 freakin people died in this accident! thats not even f***in funny!
NinjaMoose234 1 year ago
why is this in chinese??
TheFailedAssassin 1 year ago
I have read the book,it shows the lengths some people will go to shift the blame from them selves.I was surprised that both the shell and bag charges were made in 1941.Brave men everyone. R.I.P.
11denxj 1 year ago
Remember this well. This is what happens when moral is very low and training has lapsed for several months. Capt. Moosally was into the engines, where the previous was into gunnery, and Moosally hadn't schedule any main batt. training for months. No training, serious and fatal mistakes. US 16" gun turrets were some of the safest in the world with many redundent safety systems and protocals. A sad example of what happens when discipline and training are allowed to lapse. May they rest in Peace.
bb55idvo 1 year ago
it was a backfire
69fastbacklover 1 year ago
According to USN tests and extensive tests by Sandia National Laboratories after the explosion: 1) the bags were very stable, even if dropped from 100ft! 2) And over ram of 24" like that occurred in the center gun, could cause such an explosion. The rammer was operated by feel and experience, at the time there was no contols for rammer speed and distance. Unfortunately, because much of the evidence was removed and destroyed so no definitive answer will ever truly be known.
bb55idvo 1 year ago
Wow, unreal! How the hell do you cover up a missing gun and all the men onboard who know about it.
johncfl 1 year ago
@johncfl they destroyed the evidences, they falsified the causes and they put all the blame on the dead guys. This means cover up
ZangLangVang 1 year ago
@ZangLangVang If what u say is true, they should prosecute the bastards that covered it up.
johncfl 1 year ago
as patrick winslow has stated .. READ THE BOOK if yu dont know try reading .. to many morons trying to be professionals in something they have no frocking clue over .. GOD BLESS THOSE LOST ..
cutter043 1 year ago
i researched this and it was a sailor commiting sucide after having an affair not because of sabatoge or an old powder bag(because there only kept for so long before being disposed of) or a malfuction with the gun
tigermki 1 year ago
The cordite bags are releativly stable if handled and stored correctly. Modifing the bags by changing the amount of cordite in them for gun accuracy can lead to an unsafe evolution. Once you ram the projectile in, the powder bags and the lead foils and then close the beach you may overcompress the powder and cause a back blast in the turet gun room. Plus they did not have material conditions set properly which allowed the oxygen to be sucked out of the turret spaces.
SCHRUBBE1966 1 year ago
@tigermki That theory was officially discredited and the Navy sent an Admiral to apologize to the family.
brucec43 10 months ago
Right after the Iowa disaster, the America (aircraft carrier) suffered a similar fate. Some of the sailors blamed the former CO, Captain Lair, because he pushed the America out of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard before it was ready.
mkl62 1 year ago
What did that Jap just say?
dawgdan1 1 year ago
@dawgdan1 we sabotaged their big guns
laib940511 1 year ago
@dawgdan1 Holey crap its the USS IOWA lol
bigguy4570 1 year ago
@dawgdan1 sounds like a chinese
0Kahless0 1 year ago
@dawgdan1
BTW that is Chinese not Japanese
orgoth225 11 months ago
@dawgdan1 In 1989 USS Iowa undertook a routine training mission. While gunners were making ready to fire the 16 inch central gun on turret no.2, a terrible accident occurred without warning. (BANG) In this tragedy where no one can find the cause, 47 officers and crew died.
Get the facts right. That's Chinese.
StephenETavington 11 months ago
This was one where inept Navy investigators could not come up with an explanation, so the Navy seeking a scapegoat claimed to have irrefutable proof that a suicidal Gay sailor was to blame. The Navy came off looking like total turds and they had to apologize.
Albacorewing 1 year ago 3
Just love all the comments from the assfucks who were'nt there. Well, I was, on the 04 level bridge when T2 exploded. I knew every single man who died in that explosion. I would really appreciate those who were'nt there (99% of the posters), to keep thier bullshit comentaries to themselves.
QM J. Frost
Deputydog857 1 year ago 27
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@Deputydog857 I was an OS and was stationed there, but I was not on board that day. I knew Ziegler a little bit, I had worked in turret 2 during GQ. When Moosally came on board and started his shit I knew there was gonna be trouble, but I couldnt have imagined anything like that. I worked in CIC and Strike Warfare mostly.
toobie11 1 year ago
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Respond to this video... I was an OS and was stationed there, but I was not on board that day. I knew Ziegler a little bit, I had worked in turret 2 during GQ. When Moosally came on board and started his shit I knew there was gonna be trouble, but I couldnt have imagined anything like that. I worked in CIC and Strike Warfare mostly.
toobie11 1 year ago
@Deputydog857 I do agree with you , and that was trauma for you I think.
wojbert 1 year ago
@Deputydog857
the video says 47 men died...were there this many people in a turret ?
zhaviator 1 year ago
@zhaviator yes, which is half of the total crewmwen required to operate each turret on an Iowa class battleship.
nowhereman841 1 year ago
@zhaviator aye you have to keep in mind that the part with the guns on the surface is only the top of a turret, those things go almost all the way down to the bottom of the ship and theres a lot of stuff that needs human operation in those things
GamingLeeLee 1 year ago
@zhaviator yes
Marcin6313 1 year ago
@zhaviator those turrets are bigger than you think, they go many decks down.
njdevil281 11 months ago
@Deputydog857 no offense sir, i can't get that book from where I am. Can you share something which is not bull shit?
crazyevan1974 1 year ago
@Deputydog857 I totally sympathize, but you got to know that most of the posters here are kids and teenagers who need a good beating to keep them in line. Just my opinion.
Capt777harris 11 months ago
@Deputydog857 And for what it's worth I remember the day the news was aired, and all of the BS that followed.
Capt777harris 11 months ago
Haveing been a crew member on the Mighty Moe BB63 and exploring the ship on magazine patrols and having geneal quarters in the powder flats and powder magazines the reasons an inicident of such a nature happens can have varied reasons. My rateing was GMG3 and i worked in ordnance division and was one of the ships amorers. I don't beleave in accidents nor do i beleave it was sabatoge. More a combination of improper material conditions being set in the turret and ill advided powder bag mod.
SCHRUBBE1966 11 months ago
@Deputydog857 did anyone you know survive the blast ?
JeffHaney1224 11 months ago
@Deputydog857 Thank you for your service. May those sailors who died rest in peace.
AmericanThunder 11 months ago 20
@Deputydog857 True, the comments on youtube are rarely intelligent. But does it occur to you that these men died in the defense of citizens' right to say what they want? From the research (two books, countless articles) I've done, including comments from men who were there and sworn testimony, there were training, maintenance, and discipline problems on the ship.
brucec43 11 months ago
@brucec43, @Pigroota Don't you think that the men who died, protecting said freedoms, should be honored instead of some of the things said on here? What if you were in his place, knowing each one of those men, each of their faces, which ones had a family and kids waiting back home, what would you do? People need to learn respect, and to keep their negative comments to themselves, and we have a freedom of speech to an extent. Slandering dead sailors who fought for your freedom is not right.
Waroftheworlds112 10 months ago
@Waroftheworlds112 Of course slander is not cool. But the concept that "if you weren't there, stfu" isn't either. Freedom of speech is extended even to idiots, and it's always been important for civillians to weigh in on military matters as a guard against coverups. Not all the comments were libelous(slander is spoken). A few of the dead were probably even culpable in the conditions that led to the accident (the turret officer, for example). I was involved in a coverup myself, btw.
brucec43 10 months ago
@brucec43 I think all Americans have been involved in a cover up once in their lives, but to be on the ship when it happened, that feeling that you can't do anything to help while your crew mates are dying not even a hundred feet from you. Its disrespectful to slander, but its sick t slander those that died protecting your freedoms. He is trying to protect the memory of his fallen comrades, let him be.
Waroftheworlds112 10 months ago 2
@Deputydog857 Yeah man i agree. But why the fuck would you care about what is posted on this backwards medium? You give yourself a proxy and provide criticism but how does anyone know that you are actually QM? This medium is a social construct. It's very hard to provide objectivity in a subjective medium. So I conclude that you are not who you say you are, otherwise you would honor their memory with solemnity and in private, not with overt aggression. My comment is factual, not opinion
Pigroota 11 months ago
@Deputydog857 I'm 18 and I don't know what its like to have that happen, but you sir have my thanks, sympathy and support. Thank you for serving and putting us ahead of you. You and the memory of those men deserve better than this.
Waroftheworlds112 10 months ago
Had that been a world war one British Battlecruiser the flames would have reached the main magazine and everyone would have died.
When the magazines go on a Battlecruiser you get one or two digit survivor numbers.
AdurianJ 1 year ago
I would like to see a connection for the fire hose on the outside of the turret, (and things like that,) to connect the hose to to get water right inside without trying to aim it from the outside like they were doing.
kennnmoran 1 year ago
@kennnmoran If memory serves, I believe the other two guns were already loaded and the amount of water being applied was an attempt to keep the loaded guns from "cook off".
BBCKT 1 year ago
@BBCKT Sadly the sprinkler system inside the turret was inoperable due to neglect and negligence. It may have saved some lives in the lower sections of the turret. Ultimately the captain is responsible for this sort of thing, but it took at leas a few people not doing their jobs along the way, or just not caring to put their own careers on the line to get the word out that the ship was not safe. A phone call to a news outlet would have sufficed. Instead a BS "loyalty" culture killed men.
brucec43 10 months ago
Fucking China
donconco 1 year ago
Shit happens. The amazing part is that it's all repairable.
Even the best battleship in history has to have it's bads.
peepeevagi 1 year ago
@peepeevagi you cant repair 47 dead people.
The4LA2Baker0 1 year ago
I'm not talking about the people. The Iowa is just so solidly built that she could probably hold together if her entire magazine went up. Many other ships that suffer an explosion usually require massive repair and face being broken up for scrap.
She's a Big, tough lady XD
peepeevagi 1 year ago
@peepeevagi Yes, she is/was Big and Tough, I misunderstood you. Wasn't the famous novelist/writer Tom Clancy stationed on the Iowa?
The4LA2Baker0 1 year ago
My dads brother, aka my uncle rob was killed in the explosion on turret two, his name was robert backherms. he gave his life for ours, im greatful every day and wish i could have known him.
Cellphonereviews4u 1 year ago
@Cellphonereviews4u your uncle rob didn't give his life for ours. it was a tragic accident he was involved in during peace time operations. if it was war time then you could've said that and i would not be correcting you right now for getting things twisted.
anathemaish 1 year ago
What the Hell?! How did this happen???
3y3raven 1 year ago
Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the Iowa disaster. I was there and lost some good friends that day. Rest easy my shipmates, although you have been gone a long time you have not been forgotten.
CRAZYHORSE19682003 1 year ago
@CRAZYHORSE19682003 I was assigned there, wasnt on board the day it happened. I was an OS....you?
toobie11 1 year ago
@toobie11 I was a gunners mate in turret one that day
CRAZYHORSE19682003 1 year ago
RIP ..... tragic accident
DeDuivel802 1 year ago