04-17-2008, 08:29 AM
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United States Battleships, 1935-92 by William Garzke and Robert Dulin (revised edition) :
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Page 220 : In September 1987, the Iowa deployed to the Mediterranean Sea. Testing continued on 16" gunnery accuracy, and the weapons department decided to review the proof-range gunnery tests done at Dahlgren in 1939-40, using on-board computers.
FCCM(SW) Stephen Skelley played an important role in this investigation, which led to the development of a table of multipliers to account for gun-barrel erosion corrections to gun elevation.
Master Chief Charles Hill worked on the crew-training aspects and gunnery reliability. Commander Gene Kosmich, the weapons officer and Captain Larry Seaquist, the skipper of the Iowa, coordinated these efforts.
Safety and reliability were stressed so that finally a "Battleship 16"/50 Caliber Gunnery Handbook" was written, to be used by all the reactivated battleships.
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