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Dreadnought · 05-14-2008, 12:40 PM

Can they repeat that every time? In all conditions? If they cannot then no, that is not acceptable gunnery.

*GG This wouldn't be the first nor last time her accuracy was tested.
This time a moving target.

In 1944 She tested her accuracy upon the destroyer Lewis Hancock (DD-675) which was one of her two destroyer escorts from Pearl to Manus (Admirality Islands) after Halsey came back aboard to command Third Fleet.

The destroyer Lewis Hancock was told to run to the horizion (10-13 miles as we know it) upon which she opened with her first salvo and according to observers aboard the Hancock the very first shells landed in the wake of the moving destroyer. This test was focused upon checks in her gunnery calcs with certain adjustments for deflection and ofcoarse not to hit the destroyer..

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Dreadnought *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 05-12-05 Posts: 5,534 Country:	Can they repeat that every time? In all conditions? If they cannot then no, that is not acceptable gunnery. GG This wouldn't be the first nor last time her accuracy was tested. This time a moving target. In 1944 She tested her accuracy upon the destroyer Lewis Hancock (DD-675) which was one of her two destroyer escorts from Pearl to Manus (Admirality Islands) after Halsey came back aboard to command Third Fleet. The destroyer Lewis Hancock was told to run to the horizion (10-13 miles as we know it) upon which she opened with her first salvo and according to observers aboard the Hancock the very first shells landed in the wake of the moving destroyer. This test was focused upon checks in her gunnery calcs with certain adjustments for deflection and ofcoarse not to hit the destroyer.. __________________ Fortitude.....The strength* to persist...The courage to endure.