I feel like I've become a Ryan cheerleader. He's such a great presenter now, including the camera and audio behind the scenes! You guys are great, thanks for making this channel and really passionately improving it too.
I would like to thank Ryan's wife for her contributions to the overall presentation. Ryan looked like a sailor at the plot today and that really fit the subject, though is usual look great for the "This Old Ship" episodes. Editing is lots better too, love the mundane details, lets have a making of video. Is there a multi-media space on the ship? Playing records for the crew?
BSNJ deserves way more subs. Whenever I can, I try to give them a shout out to people in the comments of other channels with even remotely related content.
Either Ryan let slip some still classified gunnery info or it was the Russian undersea cable tap. But yeah I was quite certain my iPad just kicked the bucket.
Sounds almost exactly like our national threat emergency alert system and I damn near shit my pants wondering what had happened at 1715 that was severe enough to warrant a CMAS alert.
Looking forward to this one! My grandfather participated in shore bombardments of the Aleutian Islands, Gilbert islands, makin, Marshall’s, Saipan, peleliu, tinian, Iwo, and Okinawa. His 8” gun was busy throughout the war. Salute to naval artillery!
my dad to, he did 40 mm missed pearl harbor by two hours , his fleet was coming back after escorting the air craft carriers to a secret location. lost one ship
@@DirtNastyCivilian was on the Northampton first ,then sunk at a battle , and boarded iowa bb61 as a plank owner of 88 sailors first one on it . ya my dad said they loaded up with ammo and gas and went looking for the Japanese ships that attacked pearl harbor that evening .
@@onlythewise1 same here! Grandpa said night before the attack they were called gc and immediately left pearl. He told stories of the bow of the Indy pushing bodies away coming back when they came into pearl that evening took provisions and fuel then immediately left out to hunt the Japanese fleet. Those men were made hard. On a similar note, one of the best stories were them being excited to go to some island for a little R&R. Only to be incredibly disappointed when the exact same “working ladies” from some place in Alaska were the same at the island. They some how beat them to said island in the southern pacific. Lol so much for variety. You get what Uncle Sam gives you.
I lived on Guam in the early eighties. Dad was stationed at Anderson Air Force base. We learn all about the war and the duds. They estimated a 10 percent failure to detonate. They are still finding “leftovers” Also, if you look up photos of Two Lovers Leap, out in the coral surf zone, you can still see a pattern of what looks like salvo of battleship rounds that fell short.
I lived in Guam for 3 years and visited Tinian and Saipan. Such an amazing experience to call a place like that home and to go find the remnants of the war. Highly recommend for travel minded amateur historians.
Having had the fortune to spend time on Guam, Tinian, Saipan and Palau (different island chain), it really is still a living history experience. Going on “boonie-stomps” and seeing the various remnants of WW2 is still chilling. I would love to tour every Pac island we fought on ... just because.
Working with two cameras? It's great to see you really keep on improving the quality. The way Ryan doesn't seem to be able to make up his mind as to into wich camera to look is cute.
Truk is pronounced like truck. Tarawa, followed by Peleliu were two of the most brutal, I found Tarawa very interesting because of the small size of the island and all the restrictions is put on the defenders.
I was station on Guam in 91-92. I love seeing videos like this. The History of this small island is very interesting and should be shared more often. Your videos are ever improving, keep it up.
Looking really good! Remember to white balance those cameras before you start shooting. Then there won’t be a color difference between the two. Good topic, good editing! Keep up the great work.
Your WW2 knowledge can probably hang with the big dawgs. Your channel could be seen as a WW2 or straight up military history channel. Lol. You provide different perspectives than most of the run of mill lectures. 😉 I still really really appreciate your vid on top contributing factors for the victory in the Pacific and the War as a whole. Drachinifel's video series on the Salvage of Pearl Harbor was fascinating in much the same way. You could do one or something similar too 😉. Would be interesting to hear your perspective on the USS Franklin.
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Doing my own littel videos, I am glad to see that other peopel also have to look down on their notes from time to time. Nice Video :)
I remember my teacher telling us about them finding that soldier alive in 72... As a 7 year old country boy, I could hardly believe he could survive that long without being seen/found ;-)
My father served with the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Guam invasion as a 3rd class Navy signalman . His job was to provide communications to the ships off shore for fire control purposes. It was his only on shore deployment with the marines for which he had trained with the Marines in Hawaii after his destroyer U.S.S. Boyd was damaged from a Japanese shore battery on December 8,1943 off Nauru Island.
Warning! 8:43 to 9:02 just incase you have a headset on and the volume is fairly high there is a rather high pitched sound during this time. I had to change my underwear!
The US Navy knew very well of the Japanese on Guam in the early-mid 50s. Dad got there in 1953 and had to carry either a M1911/M1911A1 or a M190A3 when they went to the antenna field as the Japanese still took shots at them. I was born there in 1955 and left in 1956. Never have been back. Many don't know that the natives were given US citizenship in 1951 for their help in WW II. While Guam was under US control before WW II, Saipan and Tinian were not and were backed by the Japanese. That caused a lot of problems on Guam when the Japanese invaded as the people brought over from the other two islands treated the locals badly.
I was US Navy on Guam when they found the Japanese soldier in 1972. He was treated as a rock star by the local officials. There were some questions about an unsolved murder some years before but no one was eager to look into the details. I understand once the soldier got to Japan he was critical of the way Japan had developed and changed postwar. I understand the Japanese public was somewhat less than sympathetic to his views of how they coped and prospered while he hid out on a tropical island.
Hi Ryan. Looking at the clip of the battleship firing, around 2:30, I see the guns at about a 45 deg. angle. Given the barrel is rifled, and the projectiles are spinning as a result, does that mean that as they reach apogee and start their descent, that they are now flying through the air sideways? (Still pointed at that 45 degree angle as they leave the gun)
@@BattleshipNewJersey is it just an affect of the old footage or a sound picked up by the mic? Whatever it is, they should weaponize it! I about jumped out of my skin. . . All in jest. I love the content!
The invasion of Leyte Island, Philippines. My father was aboard one of the DDs that went in riding shotgun on the mine sweepers. Coincidentally, when I was active Navy and living in base housing the lady next door told me her father watched the first ships come into the bay before daylight when he was a boy on Leyte. He saw my father's destroyer. I thought that was pretty cool.
My Grandfather flew B-29's from Guam in 1945. My father flew B-52's from there in the early 70's during the Vietnam war. He was there when they found that second Japanese soldier hiding there.
I suggest the book "Suicide Island " by Guy Gabaldon - a Marine present at Saipan, Tinian and Guam(Navy Cross, WIA on Guam). A very interesting book, wiki Guy Gabaldon and a web site guygabaldon . He had a movie made about his exploits in a "Hollywood type history portrayal", Jerry Hunter played him in "Hell to Enternity". You really need to read his book though. Be ready it aint PC.(really ain't PC;) Very John Birch in a strange way. I spent a year or so back in the 90's on Saipan and Guam , traipsing around many of the old battlefields and it is where I found out about him, and his book. Met him once, kinda of an "ornery old man" . He was chief of police on Saipan later post-war, as he moved back out there.
According to my grandfather, an Air Force Radioman who served on Guam, Japanese survivors would sneak into the mess tents and steal food and supplies at night, so yes, you could avoid detection or at least capture for long periods of time.
Just a little production help. There are lights you can get to put above each camera to let Ryan know which camera to look at at what time, so he's not looking awkwardly back and forth at all three cameras. Just a little tip for your production team. Love your content and want it to be the best it can be. Keep up the good work.
We literally just have a person stand there and wave. The weirdness isn usually because someone accidentaly kicked the camera he's looking at or the phone decided to auto focus again or I just couldn't get them to match up anymore. We're a 1 person operation behind the scenes with a couple cell phones.
@@BattleshipNewJersey No worries. It doesn't come off as a one-man production. These are recorded on Cell Phones? We gotta start a Patreon and get you guys serious recording equipment. You deserve guys deserve it. Again, gotta say I love the channel and your vids.
We are always accepting donations at battleshipnewjersey.org/videofund but at the end of the day, we're historians, not video producers so fancy equipment is kind of lost on us
@@BattleshipNewJersey Nah, there's always time to learn new equipment and techniques. You are proficient with editing software and audio syncing. I have loved watching you guys get better and better at this over the years.
It is pretty amazing that Japanese soldiers could survive on Guam after the battle. For all intents and purposes, Guam was denuded during the campaign and the Chamorros (Guam's indigenous people) were very pro-american. So it was pretty much down to cave living, and slinking around at night to see what you could steal from the locals without being caught. You'd have to be very ingenious to get away with it for a long period of time. If you look at a map of Guam you can get a feeling for the importance of naval and air bombardment for the support of the landing. The landing beach was very long, flat and ringed with elevated positions good for enfilading fire. A real death trap. Without strong naval and air support, you could not survive a landing there.
We produce new videos 5 days a week and use historic footage like this whenever appropriate. There are also about 50 other videos in the playlist of wwii battles on our channel if you're just looking for that.
my favorite "amphibious invasion" is the raid of the crew of HMS Cossack on german occupied Narvik during the 3rd battle of Narvik in 1940. They got some nice souveniers, but ofc that never happend *cough cough*
For me I would say definitely the Normandy Landing, and Okinawa for me personally. I have only been aboard the USS. Texas BB-35 and I know she was their for both of them. But I what I find interesting is the medical triage that they had. Two completely different systems but the three things that counted the most for both was the placing accurate shots on target , achieving the objectives and making sure the Wounded we’re getting taken care of.
Hey, I have a question about shore bombardment. For D-Day, a lot of the remaining Standard-type battleships did the shore bombardments for Operation Overlord, and did a fantastic job of it. However, if one of the Iowas had been there, what would have happened? Especially what if an Iowa or a more modern battleship had been dropping hundreds of tons on those low cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach?
Not quite. The aiming stake is giving you a point of reference so that you can always return your barrel to a known deflection (azimuth); the ships computers (gyro-compass systems) will do that for the ship's guns. The landmark Ryan is describing is more like a registration point, a known point that is typically accurately surveyed such as a church steeple, lighthouse, etc. You then adjust from that known point to the new target, by giving the distance from the fixed point and some sort of direction from the known point to the target. This is going from 40 year old memory, but the fire command would go something like this: Adjust Fire, Shift. Known Point X233, direction 145 degrees, distance 1700 meters, type of target (bunker, troops in open, tanks, etc.). With that info, the ship's fire control system can then calculate the azimuth and range to the new target.
@@Bob_Betker Roger that. We weren't given a proper comparison between land based stationary artillery and naval gunnery when we took the fire control/firepower tours on BB55 in Wilmington.
How were fire support request from infantry units assigned to the ships of the supporting fleet during forced landings? How did they make sure not to miss any request and that multiple ships didn't take the same mission?
From what I can find out, it was developed after WWII. On Gene Slover's site, he mentions that is was developed during the Korean War and has an Ordnance Pub from 1956 about it.
Saipan was a particularly brutal battle. Can't say I really enjoyed studying it because of that brutality, but because my great uncle had participated I was drawn to it. What happened on those cliffs to the civilians was... horrible. A lot of terrible things happened in that war but few could top that in sheer insanity.
How loud would the main guns firing be to the men in the plotting station? Obviously the blast/ concussion outside would be massive, but behind armour?
In field artillery, there are tables that will provide the adjustment for changes in elevation; I assume that the fire control system would have similar tables incorporated into it.
I have a question. Does the Battleship have any operational Sound Powered Telephones in it? It would seem to me that if this system was operational, it could be used to good benefit for the benefit of both touring parties and the staff of the museum. Plus there is an undeniable "cool factor" to their usage. Since the reach of the SPT system is essentially "the whole ship", then can you imagine a more convenient and robust intercom to use when trying to exchange information with someone working in a far off corner of the ship?
It makes about a 50ft crater. There are long specific lists of numbers of structures and rail line destroyed. If you check our cruisebooks (just Google uss NJ cruisebook) you can often get a year by year account of it
Has a episode ever been done as a dissection of the movie battleship? One for a humorous episode. LOL. Perhaps you could have your 'friend's as a guest again.
In retrospect the invasion of the Philippines was an enormous waste of effort. B-29s could not reach Japan from there. The several hundred thousand Philippine deaths were unnecessary. Guam, Tinian and Saipan were the prize. Okinawa is difficult to assess.
Disappointing to see film of Tarawa and Okinawa. In res: Guam. Would hope BB-62 had it own section in National Archive's and Naval War College Media department.
So many major Japanese cities are on the shore. Can you imagine if the mainland invasion happened and all the Iowas are shelling cities from beyond the horizon!!!! You can't shoot down 16" shells. It would be devastating.
Do y’all have any idea what happened to the other shore bombardment computer? Also, I think it’s fair to say the U.S. liberated Guam, though yeaaaah it was an invasion. (Damn, I think I’m growing an inner Ryan!)
I feel like I've become a Ryan cheerleader. He's such a great presenter now, including the camera and audio behind the scenes! You guys are great, thanks for making this channel and really passionately improving it too.
It is an awesome channel!
I would like to thank Ryan's wife for her contributions to the overall presentation. Ryan looked like a sailor at the plot today and that really fit the subject, though is usual look great for the "This Old Ship" episodes. Editing is lots better too, love the mundane details, lets have a making of video. Is there a multi-media space on the ship? Playing records for the crew?
BSNJ deserves way more subs. Whenever I can, I try to give them a shout out to people in the comments of other channels with even remotely related content.
What’s up with the NSA dropping in at about 8:50?!
Either Ryan let slip some still classified gunnery info or it was the Russian undersea cable tap. But yeah I was quite certain my iPad just kicked the bucket.
I was listening to this while trying to go to sleep…guess who’s awake? I still liked the video, though.
wireless mic interference prolly
Sounds almost exactly like our national threat emergency alert system and I damn near shit my pants wondering what had happened at 1715 that was severe enough to warrant a CMAS alert.
thats audio from that clip 8:50 to 9:04 playing simultaneously as he speak
Ryan has come so far in his dictation it’s honestly inspiring. Keep up the good work!
Looking forward to this one! My grandfather participated in shore bombardments of the Aleutian Islands, Gilbert islands, makin, Marshall’s, Saipan, peleliu, tinian, Iwo, and Okinawa.
His 8” gun was busy throughout the war.
Salute to naval artillery!
my dad to, he did 40 mm missed pearl harbor by two hours , his fleet was coming back after escorting the air craft carriers to a secret location. lost one ship
@@onlythewise1 what ship? My grandfather was aboard USS indianapolis. Missed Pearl Harbor by 12 hours ish. He was called GC the night before.
@@DirtNastyCivilian was on the Northampton first ,then sunk at a battle , and boarded iowa bb61 as a plank owner of 88 sailors first one on it . ya my dad said they loaded up with ammo and gas and went looking for the Japanese ships that attacked pearl harbor that evening .
@@onlythewise1 same here! Grandpa said night before the attack they were called gc and immediately left pearl. He told stories of the bow of the Indy pushing bodies away coming back when they came into pearl that evening took provisions and fuel then immediately left out to hunt the Japanese fleet.
Those men were made hard.
On a similar note, one of the best stories were them being excited to go to some island for a little R&R. Only to be incredibly disappointed when the exact same “working ladies” from some place in Alaska were the same at the island. They some how beat them to said island in the southern pacific.
Lol so much for variety. You get what Uncle Sam gives you.
I lived on Guam in the early eighties. Dad was stationed at Anderson Air Force base. We learn all about the war and the duds. They estimated a 10 percent failure to detonate. They are still finding “leftovers”
Also, if you look up photos of Two Lovers Leap, out in the coral surf zone, you can still see a pattern of what looks like salvo of battleship rounds that fell short.
I lived in Guam for 3 years and visited Tinian and Saipan. Such an amazing experience to call a place like that home and to go find the remnants of the war. Highly recommend for travel minded amateur historians.
Having had the fortune to spend time on Guam, Tinian, Saipan and Palau (different island chain), it really is still a living history experience. Going on “boonie-stomps” and seeing the various remnants of WW2 is still chilling. I would love to tour every Pac island we fought on ... just because.
Boonie-stomps?
@@busterbeagle2167 Boonie-stomp; Hikes through the jungle. I did many of them when I was stationed on Guam.
@@busterbeagle2167 sometimes to collect boonie peppers for boonie pepper jelly. mind the boonie bees
Nicely done, Ryan. Really like how you speak "off the top of your head" without notes. You're being very natural in your presentation.
He had notes. watch how many times he looks down at the computer. But still the presentation was great.
I’d really like to see a New Jersey/Drachinifel collaboration, I think that'd be cool
that would be awesome
I believe a collaboration was in the pipework but the covid19 pandemic has put the plans on hold for the moment.
Working with two cameras? It's great to see you really keep on improving the quality. The way Ryan doesn't seem to be able to make up his mind as to into wich camera to look is cute.
Everybody is doing the two camera thing now. Very distracting.
Yes. They should adopt a cueing system if they’re serious about it.
Truk is pronounced like truck. Tarawa, followed by Peleliu were two of the most brutal, I found Tarawa very interesting because of the small size of the island and all the restrictions is put on the defenders.
I almost forgot to comment on the Truk pronunciation.
If you google Truk it pops up as Chuuk so I'm gonna side with Ryan on this one. Chuuk is pronounced how he said it.
Not if you have lived on that Island!
The audio and video has gotten so much better and I love this channel. Thank you so much for sharing the ship with us.
At time marker 8:45 You can hear SMPTE Time code playing across the audio. You might want to mixdown the edit again.
I noticed that as well
The Campaign around Palau and the Mariana Islands was a brutal and hard fought.
I was station on Guam in 91-92. I love seeing videos like this. The History of this small island is very interesting and should be shared more often. Your videos are ever improving, keep it up.
Looking really good! Remember to white balance those cameras before you start shooting. Then there won’t be a color difference between the two. Good topic, good editing! Keep up the great work.
My father took part in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Love to see something on those.
Your WW2 knowledge can probably hang with the big dawgs. Your channel could be seen as a WW2 or straight up military history channel. Lol. You provide different perspectives than most of the run of mill lectures. 😉 I still really really appreciate your vid on top contributing factors for the victory in the Pacific and the War as a whole. Drachinifel's video series on the Salvage of Pearl Harbor was fascinating in much the same way. You could do one or something similar too 😉. Would be interesting to hear your perspective on the USS Franklin.
Doing my own littel videos, I am glad to see that other peopel also have to look down on their notes from time to time. Nice Video :)
I remember my teacher telling us about them finding that soldier alive in 72... As a 7 year old country boy, I could hardly believe he could survive that long without being seen/found ;-)
My father served with the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Guam invasion as a 3rd class Navy signalman . His job was to provide communications to the ships off shore for fire control purposes. It was his only on shore deployment with the marines for which he had trained with the Marines in Hawaii after his destroyer U.S.S. Boyd was damaged from a Japanese shore battery on December 8,1943 off Nauru Island.
Warning! 8:43 to 9:02 just incase you have a headset on and the volume is fairly high there is a rather high pitched sound during this time. I had to change my underwear!
The US Navy knew very well of the Japanese on Guam in the early-mid 50s. Dad got there in 1953 and had to carry either a M1911/M1911A1 or a M190A3 when they went to the antenna field as the Japanese still took shots at them. I was born there in 1955 and left in 1956. Never have been back. Many don't know that the natives were given US citizenship in 1951 for their help in WW II. While Guam was under US control before WW II, Saipan and Tinian were not and were backed by the Japanese. That caused a lot of problems on Guam when the Japanese invaded as the people brought over from the other two islands treated the locals badly.
I was US Navy on Guam when they found the Japanese soldier in 1972. He was treated as a rock star by the local officials. There were some questions about an unsolved murder some years before but no one was eager to look into the details. I understand once the soldier got to Japan he was critical of the way Japan had developed and changed postwar. I understand the Japanese public was somewhat less than sympathetic to his views of how they coped and prospered while he hid out on a tropical island.
Great production. Second camera used well!
Hi Ryan. Looking at the clip of the battleship firing, around 2:30, I see the guns at about a 45 deg. angle. Given the barrel is rifled, and the projectiles are spinning as a result, does that mean that as they reach apogee and start their descent, that they are now flying through the air sideways? (Still pointed at that 45 degree angle as they leave the gun)
You actually think the horizontal axis doesn't change? Physics....how does it work....
It starts making an awful sound a bit after 8:40
It's the sound of the Historic clip, it goes away after a moment, many apologies
@@BattleshipNewJersey is it just an affect of the old footage or a sound picked up by the mic? Whatever it is, they should weaponize it! I about jumped out of my skin. . . All in jest. I love the content!
i thought it was just me
I thought one of my studio monitors broke since its just in the left audio channel :) absolute heat attack lol
I think it was bad video transfer and the audio picked up the original film projector running.
The invasion of Leyte Island, Philippines. My father was aboard one of the DDs that went in riding shotgun on the mine sweepers. Coincidentally, when I was active Navy and living in base housing the lady next door told me her father watched the first ships come into the bay before daylight when he was a boy on Leyte. He saw my father's destroyer. I thought that was pretty cool.
My Grandfather flew B-29's from Guam in 1945. My father flew B-52's from there in the early 70's during the Vietnam war. He was there when they found that second Japanese soldier hiding there.
Great stuff.
Lookin good Ryan
I suggest the book "Suicide Island " by Guy Gabaldon - a Marine present at Saipan, Tinian and Guam(Navy Cross, WIA on Guam). A very interesting book, wiki Guy Gabaldon
and a web site guygabaldon . He had a movie made about his exploits in a "Hollywood type history portrayal", Jerry Hunter played him in "Hell to Enternity". You really need to read his book though. Be ready it aint PC.(really ain't PC;) Very John Birch in a strange way.
I spent a year or so back in the 90's on Saipan and Guam , traipsing around many of the old battlefields and it is where I found out about him, and his book. Met him once, kinda of an "ornery old man" . He was chief of police on Saipan later post-war, as he moved back out there.
According to my grandfather, an Air Force Radioman who served on Guam, Japanese survivors would sneak into the mess tents and steal food and supplies at night, so yes, you could avoid detection or at least capture for long periods of time.
Just a little production help. There are lights you can get to put above each camera to let Ryan know which camera to look at at what time, so he's not looking awkwardly back and forth at all three cameras. Just a little tip for your production team.
Love your content and want it to be the best it can be. Keep up the good work.
We literally just have a person stand there and wave. The weirdness isn usually because someone accidentaly kicked the camera he's looking at or the phone decided to auto focus again or I just couldn't get them to match up anymore. We're a 1 person operation behind the scenes with a couple cell phones.
@@BattleshipNewJersey No worries. It doesn't come off as a one-man production. These are recorded on Cell Phones? We gotta start a Patreon and get you guys serious recording equipment. You deserve guys deserve it.
Again, gotta say I love the channel and your vids.
We are always accepting donations at battleshipnewjersey.org/videofund but at the end of the day, we're historians, not video producers so fancy equipment is kind of lost on us
@@BattleshipNewJersey Nah, there's always time to learn new equipment and techniques. You are proficient with editing software and audio syncing. I have loved watching you guys get better and better at this over the years.
It is pretty amazing that Japanese soldiers could survive on Guam after the battle. For all intents and purposes, Guam was denuded during the campaign and the Chamorros (Guam's indigenous people) were very pro-american. So it was pretty much down to cave living, and slinking around at night to see what you could steal from the locals without being caught. You'd have to be very ingenious to get away with it for a long period of time. If you look at a map of Guam you can get a feeling for the importance of naval and air bombardment for the support of the landing. The landing beach was very long, flat and ringed with elevated positions good for enfilading fire. A real death trap. Without strong naval and air support, you could not survive a landing there.
I would highly suggest you move into this direction as documentary short 15 minute videos (in addition to your current videos), your great at it!
We produce new videos 5 days a week and use historic footage like this whenever appropriate. There are also about 50 other videos in the playlist of wwii battles on our channel if you're just looking for that.
my favorite "amphibious invasion" is the raid of the crew of HMS Cossack on german occupied Narvik during the 3rd battle of Narvik in 1940. They got some nice souveniers, but ofc that never happend *cough cough*
For me I would say definitely the Normandy Landing, and Okinawa for me personally. I have only been aboard the USS. Texas BB-35 and I know she was their for both of them. But I what I find interesting is the medical triage that they had. Two completely different systems but the three things that counted the most for both was the placing accurate shots on target , achieving the objectives and making sure the Wounded we’re getting taken care of.
Hey, I have a question about shore bombardment. For D-Day, a lot of the remaining Standard-type battleships did the shore bombardments for Operation Overlord, and did a fantastic job of it. However, if one of the Iowas had been there, what would have happened? Especially what if an Iowa or a more modern battleship had been dropping hundreds of tons on those low cliffs overlooking Omaha Beach?
Great video. I would love to see a video about the Chemical Warfare Material section of the ship. I think it was just in front of turret 1
What the hell is that noise at 8:44? It lasts several seconds.
Could you do a video on Shangri La? It was the base for the Dolittle raid.
So sighting on a landmark with a battleship rangefinder and doing the offset is like using an aiming stake in regular artillery?
Not quite. The aiming stake is giving you a point of reference so that you can always return your barrel to a known deflection (azimuth); the ships computers (gyro-compass systems) will do that for the ship's guns. The landmark Ryan is describing is more like a registration point, a known point that is typically accurately surveyed such as a church steeple, lighthouse, etc. You then adjust from that known point to the new target, by giving the distance from the fixed point and some sort of direction from the known point to the target.
This is going from 40 year old memory, but the fire command would go something like this:
Adjust Fire, Shift. Known Point X233, direction 145 degrees, distance 1700 meters, type of target (bunker, troops in open, tanks, etc.). With that info, the ship's fire control system can then calculate the azimuth and range to the new target.
@@Bob_Betker Roger that. We weren't given a proper comparison between land based stationary artillery and naval gunnery when we took the fire control/firepower tours on BB55 in Wilmington.
The Gallipoli amphibious invasion and subsequent battle of attrition is the most interesting to me.
Okinawa. Got to be there for the 50th Anniversary and take the returning vet on a tour of the island
It would be nice if you could show how the machine worked. Assuming it still works, that is.
How were fire support request from infantry units assigned to the ships of the supporting fleet during forced landings? How did they make sure not to miss any request and that multiple ships didn't take the same mission?
Was the Mark XLVIII think I got that right removed from an older ship, standard class, or was this a new item developed after the war?
From what I can find out, it was developed after WWII. On Gene Slover's site, he mentions that is was developed during the Korean War and has an Ordnance Pub from 1956 about it.
Saipan was a particularly brutal battle. Can't say I really enjoyed studying it because of that brutality, but because my great uncle had participated I was drawn to it. What happened on those cliffs to the civilians was... horrible. A lot of terrible things happened in that war but few could top that in sheer insanity.
Who are you blaming for those idiots acting like sheep?
Did they ever develop a delayed detonation fuse for NJ 16 inch shells to try and reach underground tunnels?
Damn that clip scared the shit out of me when it came on
What the heck did the audio do 8:48??
it did...everything.
How loud would the main guns firing be to the men in the plotting station? Obviously the blast/ concussion outside would be massive, but behind armour?
For shore bombardment how does a battleship adjust for the fact that the target is not necessarily at sea level?
In field artillery, there are tables that will provide the adjustment for changes in elevation; I assume that the fire control system would have similar tables incorporated into it.
@@Bob_Betker that makes sense, thanks
I have a question. Does the Battleship have any operational Sound Powered Telephones in it? It would seem to me that if this system was operational, it could be used to good benefit for the benefit of both touring parties and the staff of the museum. Plus there is an undeniable "cool factor" to their usage. Since the reach of the SPT system is essentially "the whole ship", then can you imagine a more convenient and robust intercom to use when trying to exchange information with someone working in a far off corner of the ship?
They did a video about telephones and they did have sound powered telephones that still work in it.
According to the movie _Final Countdown_ they can even be used to talk to other ships.
Do you have any information on what kind of damage the shells did? Ship to shore would be cool, damage to bunkers etc..
It makes about a 50ft crater. There are long specific lists of numbers of structures and rail line destroyed. If you check our cruisebooks (just Google uss NJ cruisebook) you can often get a year by year account of it
Why and when did they remove aft plot equipment?
Has a episode ever been done as a dissection of the movie battleship? One for a humorous episode. LOL. Perhaps you could have your 'friend's as a guest again.
It'll probably be done right after the "Ryan Reacts" video where he watches Under Siege on camera.
My favorite amphibious landing was crashing a jet ski into the Sandals clothing optional resort.
In the 80s, for gunfire coordinates did New Jersey use MGRS or UTM or...?
Love the haircut bro. Keep it short.
Palau is in the Mariana? News to me.
I got "Shore" bombed, several times, in the Navy.
Is there any video available from the receiving end of a 16" shell, or of the damage caused?
Right here: catalog.archives.gov/id/87063
@@BattleshipNewJersey Thanks! Great view at approx 2:40
What does the firing mechanism for the guns of New Jersey look like?
very cool
Hafa Adai!
Isn't a bonsai a small tree? I thought it was banzai.
My favorite invasion would have to be the British invasion. I love 1960s music!
In retrospect the invasion of the Philippines was an enormous waste of effort. B-29s could not reach Japan from there. The several hundred thousand Philippine deaths were unnecessary. Guam, Tinian and Saipan were the prize. Okinawa is difficult to assess.
Disappointing to see film of Tarawa and Okinawa. In res: Guam. Would hope BB-62 had it own section in National Archive's and Naval War College Media department.
What is your position inside the ship. Are you inside the gun director?
He said he was in Forward Plot. The gun director spaces are much smaller.
Forward plot, so 4th deck, just aft of turret II
@@BattleshipNewJersey Thaks!
Is that a Pit Sword fo your left?
It is! We use it as a prop for tours
Messed up audio.
whats that wooden plank for?
Its the pit sword, basically thr speedometer. It belongs a few levels down but it's there to show on tourz
you can still visit the hole where the dude who lived there for 27 years
Lived on Guam rt after they found that Japanese soldier my dad was stationed on a sub tender
Cool
So many major Japanese cities are on the shore. Can you imagine if the mainland invasion happened and all the Iowas are shelling cities from beyond the horizon!!!! You can't shoot down 16" shells. It would be devastating.
Not more devastating than 1000 B-29’s carrying a mixed load of explosives and incendiaries. Not a lot of good a few AA-guns will do you against that.
I survived outside for 3 hours once.
Do y’all have any idea what happened to the other shore bombardment computer? Also, I think it’s fair to say the U.S. liberated Guam, though yeaaaah it was an invasion. (Damn, I think I’m growing an inner Ryan!)
Probably put in some government warehouse as a spare
I see you got a USN regulation haircut. Nice!
And did any of the soldiers lost in the islands get their back-pay for all that time they were marooned when they turned up?
Think so but used IJA pay instead of JSDF
Did Ryan get a haircut?
Ryan: "Fuck lighthouses"
Sorry, but that's just what I heard.
OMG
Hi Justin!
i now consider the battle for the island of peleliu the most terrible of the island hopping pacific campaign
I can more easily list my least favorite. Dugout Doug's self-glorification in the Philippines.
Invasion of Iwo Jima
All that ordnance and the island didn't sink? Impressive!
Jesus faces today:
Ian McCollum = Gun Jesus
Nicholas Moran = Tank Jesus
Ryan Szimanski = Battleship Jesus
Who else?
4th