I Like Ike - 34th President - 1953-1961

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Rip Snorter — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:12:55 GMT

That sounds a lot like a piece you'd want to wear some earplugs while you're doing your target shooting. Never heard of it, but offhand it sounds about the size of a 16 inch battleship gun. Nobody was lugging those rounds on his back, most likely. Maybe 1500 pounds? I wasn't aware we had mobile guns that size, but I'm impressed. Just feeding the round and seating it must have been an exercize in ingenuity. Interesting. Thanks for the comment. Jack... [ More ]

Comment #4

JAP69 — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:55:41 GMT

I was in the artillery with nuclear capacity. 280MM cannon

Comment #3

Rip Snorter — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:43:21 GMT

Thanks for the comment. Yep, he was a golfer prez. But a good'un. That Cuban Crisis was a hair raiser. I was Regular Army then. I suppose there were a lot of us sweating that one out, though the whole country, in and out of uniform was doing some puckering. We lucked out on that one.... a nuclear exchange with the Russkies that time of our lives would probably have messed up the whole day. Jack

Comment #2

JAP69 — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:58:28 GMT

Ike sure liked golfing as I remember. Kennedy was the prez I served under in the military. I got my tour of duty extended in usareur during the cuban missile crisis.

Comment #1

Rip Snorter — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:10:12 GMT

Jack

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