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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Patriotic music, big guns, spotter planes, locomotives, sailors and Frenchmen. |
| 2010-03-12 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 That is one big shootin' arn. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-03-12 20:34 |
| #6 mmmmm. that was wrong. You get the mental picture. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-12 19:38 |
| #5 thanks. Now I feel infinitesimally inadequate |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-12 19:37 |
| #4 Update: One of these very guns in preserved at the Washington Navy Yard. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-03-12 19:27 |
| #3 These were 14"/50 guns and were also used in New Mexico and Tennessee battleships, including the ill-fated Arizona. They saw heavy combat during World War 2, at which time they were well over twenty years old. Ten of the slightly older 14"/45 guns survive to this day aboard the USS Texas and can give a good idea what these were like. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-03-12 18:51 |
| #2 Excellent Old Film, one correction. In the Navy the command is "Shoot" the word Fire is reserved for actual fire to prevent misunderstandings. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-03-12 17:28 |
| #1 Have a fine documentary of WWI by Major Channel Four, Professor Hew Strachan. Of course I have to fast forward past the extensive coverage of the Turkish theatre now because it is against the law to consider the Armenia theatre >:/ |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-03-12 12:13 |
