Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

When we did a full range of test firing of the main batteries on New Jersey back in 82, the Dahlgren people used colored dies for the separate turrets to tell how accurate each one was.

The tow target was quite visible to the naked eye so impacts were very eye appealing. VERY eye appealing as they used Orange for Turret I, Yellow for Turret II and Green for Turret III.

However, it was a rather hazy day and the haze filtered OUT the Yellow.

So when a full salvo was fired, all you could see were columns of RED, WHITE and BLUE water.