Photos - 1950-1953 Korean War Page 4
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Wisconsin (BB-64) fires her after 16"/50 guns at a railway tunnel in the Chaho-Songjin area of North Korea's east coast, circa mid-March 1952. Note 5"/38 and 40mm guns in the foreground. |
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Wisconsin (BB-64) being used as a guinea pig in a floatation test on AFDB-1 at Orote, Guam, during April 1952. The bulbous underwater bow that characterized all U.S. fast battleships can be plainly seen. |
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Manning battle stations on secondary guns, off Korea, circa Feb. 1953. |
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SA George E. Riel, Jr., USN, checks a plotting board to ensure that no aircraft are in the path of projectiles that will soon be fired at targets ashore, during gunnery practice in the Atlantic area. Photo is dated 3 March 1953. |
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New Jersey (BB-62) gets double billing in this photo, dated 11 Feb 54. In the center as first recommissioned in 1951, and also after her first post-war overhaul, with changed radars and fire control. The Missouri (BB-63) (upper left), is pictured on 21 October 1950 bombarding Communist positions off Chong Jin, Korea. Wisconsin (BB-64) (lower right) and Iowa (BB-61) (upper right). The Iowa is pictured off Pearl Harbor in 1952 & shows the standard fleet painting adopted after WW2. Small war time hull numbers have been replaced with larger, easily seen block numerals. The catapults were removed after WW II, the area now a helicopter landing area. Some 40mm mounts are gone, but most remained on board until she was decommissioned on 24 February 1958. All 20mm gun mounts have been removed. |
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The Mk.8 range-keeping computer on Wisconsin (BB-64) kept track of many variables of gunfire. |
