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It was also clear that each 16-inch gun turret required more sailors than the Navy could afford to assign. “It’s a classic example of Navy leaders not being willing to speak truth to power and ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Over the course of her relatively short Vietnam patrol New Jersey fired 5,688 16-inch gun rounds and 14,891 five-inch gun rounds, far more than she fired during ...

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This article was originally published with the title “ Transporting the 16-Inch Gun to Sandy Hook ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 87 No. 25 (December 1902), p. 443 doi:10.1038 ...

A 16-inch caliber, 68-foot-long gun that was once mounted on the battleship USS Missouri was hauled from the U.S. Navy Weapons Station in Hawthorne, Nev. to a parking area near Rodeo Lagoon where ...