Korean War - 1950 USS Missouri (BB-63) Loading & Firing 16” Guns. 04-09Sep50

Korean War - 1950 USS Missouri (BB-63) Loading & Firing 16” Guns. 04-09Sep50 Slate: 04Sep50. USS Missouri Main Battery Fire. Roll 160. 10:11:22 No. 3 turret (16") firing starboard. No. 2 turret firing. 10:11:55 No. 2 turret trained forward. 10:12:07 CU 16" projectile coming up on projectile hoist. 10:12:22 MS Gun chamber rammerman depressing hydraulic lever. Repeated. 10:12:41 MCU High capacity projectile turning on projectile ring and being pulled into projectile hoist by parbuckler operator. 10:13:25 Slate: 08Sep50 Cameraman N.O. Keesling. USS Missouri, Roll 162. 10:13:28 Crew watching projectiles moving on projectile ring & parbuckler operator. 10:14:08 CU barrels w/ caps blown off. MCU Turrets 1 & 2 (16") training & elevating. 10:14:30 Slate: 04Sep50 Camera: Skidmore. Roll 164. 10:14:33 CU Turret captain giving word: "Stand by", then "Load". (two views).1 10:15:33 Slate: same. Roll 165. 10:15:36 Explosions in water near beach, flat land and water. 10:16:34 Slate: 09Sep50. Camea: Keesling. Roll 166. 10:16:37 Superstructure of the MISSOURI radar revolving atop w/ turrets 1 & 2 (16") being turned & elevated; 10:17:26 Slate: illegible. CU Turret Captain & ??; ?? moves switches. CU Breech coming up on gun. MS Rammerman standing by open breech. CU Breech is opened; 16" shell loaded into breech. MCU Powder bag coming up on hoist from magazine, being unloaded. 10:19:34 Slate: out of focus. MCU Turret captain giving the orders: "Stand by"; "Load. War Ships; Sailors Training; VERY GOOD shots & exposure. NOTE: Probably training firing just prior to reaching Korea 14Sep50 & bombarding Korea 15Sep50.