My Father was involved in a project to machine new barrels for the battle ships in the 1980s. They where needing some new barrels made since they had not made any since the 1950s.
They had the tooling to make the barrels but none of the guys where still around that had done it. It took them some time to get them figures out.
Also a side note. The Navel had the tooling to change the barrels but no one had written down how they actually changed the barrels. In WWII they could change a barrel in under eight hours. It took them over a week on the first one since they had to figure out how to do it. I often wondered if any of the old guys would have still been around that had done it.
I would have like to have been there to see it done. The big guns always fascinated me. I had a Great Uncle that was on a battleship in WWII. He was a gunner on an anti-air craft gun. His gun and bunk where right under the big guns. He talked about being there when they where firing the big guns right over his head. I can remember him talking about being thrown out of his bunk one time while he was sleeping and they used the big guns.
I think the First Gulf War was the last active combat they where used in. There is a good video about that.
Then the second video is about the Arizona. It shows pictures from start to finish of the great ship.
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