budden@manta.nosc.mil (Rex Buddenberg) (08/17/89)
From: budden@manta.nosc.mil (Rex Buddenberg) There was a lot of discussion on the bboard about Iowa's turret explosion, but I didn't notice anyone commenting that the guns are back in action. According to the Navy Times that crawled across my desk today, Iowa fired her 16" guns in a live fire exercise 4 August somewhere in the Med (enroute Lebanon area where she might have to use them). The article commented that turret #2 was not fired because the damage had not been repaired. Rex Buddenberg budden at manta.nosc.mil