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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Seacoast Mortars and Nukes
Message-ID: <8800@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 13:06:25 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <8675@cbnews.ATT.COM>, Dave Mead writes: 

*In article <8630@cbnews.ATT.COM*, pierson@cimnet.dec.com writes:

*At Fort Steven (mouth of the Columbia) we have amoung other gun fortifications
*some of these "four hole" mortar pits that were later converted to "two holers".
*The museum there states the reason for the down grade was that practice firings
*of volleys had *killed* something like 6(?) gunners from muzzle blast con-
*cussion! Kind of like dynamiting fish?

interesting.  the staff at the museum at the watervliet arsenal didn't
say anything about deaths amongst the crews; they merely mentioned that
you got a better rate of fire with two than four because after all four
went off at once, the crew was useless for sometime there afterward.
i didn't realize that useless == dead.

richard
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