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Originally Posted by fitz
I am to be sure no expert but I have studied NGFS - particularly from Korea and Vietnam - in some detail. One factoid that I came across interested me greatly. 6-inch and 8-inch gunfire tended to be used almost exclusively at ranges the 5-inch guns could not reach. 16-inch in turn tended to be used almost exclusively at targets outside the range of 8-inch gunfire.
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a. 16" vs 8"
In Korea, only 20% of the 16" missions were outside the range of an 8" cruiser.
In Vietnam, 51.4% of the 16" missions (between September 1968 and February 1969) were outside the range of an 8" cruiser.
b. 8" vs 5"
In Korea, about 80% of the 8" missions (between May 1951 and March 1952) were outside the range of a 5"/38 (though only about 10% would have been outside the range of a 5"/54).
In Vietnam, for the period considered (Sept. 68 - Feb. 69), only 12.1% of the 8" missions were outside the range of a 5"/54 (though about 80% were outside the range of a 5"/38).