Nauticus - Battleship Wisconsin - One and Only Hit on Battleship Wisconsin
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2021
- #WiskyWednesday ⚓️
This past Monday marked the 69th anniversary of the one and only hit on the Battleship Wisconsin. Join Keith Nitka, Battleship Operations Manager, as he recounts the hit by North Korea on March 15, 1952.
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The Wisconsin didn't destroy a mountain. It simply engaged in an agricultural landscaping project to smooth the terrain of N. Korea, enabling the inhabitants to plant crops easily. Pre-fertilized with an early form of "soylent green" to boost output.
They made a big rock into several small rocks.
Gotta love how casually he's says "and one mountain"
Enemy: scores a hit
Wisconsin: completely eliminates any sign of human activity where that gun once existed
God dammit I love these ships
Too bad that nowadays those types of battleships are outdated, rockets and missiles simply outrange the epic looking naval guns.
😁No worries Wisconsin now has missiles as well😉
"tsk, tsk, temper temper" that's excellent.
I mean, responding to four 152mm shells with nine 16" shells because one shell hit is a little excessive, but I guess Wisconsin's attitude was "ok, you want to play, I'll play!"
I would have had to reply don't get your panties in a wad we are just getting started over here. HAHAHAHA
So North Korea fired a total of a bit under 2 feet of shells. The response was over 12 feet of shells... I guess the Big Whisky could have fired a broadside from the secondary battery of 5" guns. 10 of those are just over 4 feet of shells. Would that have been more fair???
never annoy a ship that can throw the equivalent of 9 midsize cars at you
@@amphibol very true. Speak softly and carry a big stick. Or 9 16” guns
ok ju wanna play rough? BOOOOOM!
Enemy: its a battleship hurry up throw everything we have at it!!
Wisconsin: So you have chosen DELETION
And in True Wisconsinite.. Hold my beer and watch this!
Yes indeed
My dad was in the directors box and reported the flashes. He was also the FT that fired at and destroy the gun.
Overkill is under rated. This story always puts a smile on my face😁😁
Smashing a fly with a sledge hammer 👍
@@btrswt35 , a couple rounds from Duncan’s guns would’ve sufficed, but the fact the Wisconsin used all nine 16” guns at the same time to kill a pesky gnat is hilarious!! Definitely an “OH, SHIT!!” moment for the bad guys!! 😂
This story and the one about the Raptor pilot telling the Iranian pilot “you should go home now” will always be a favorite of mine
"the enemy is in that direction!"
"yes sir! removing that direction!"
"you see that island?"
"Yes sir."
"I don't want too."
"Understood sir."
See this is why I can’t be an officer. This is exactly how I’d give orders. My crew would loveeee me
That was Big J
Just took this tour, and stood where he is standing.
Outstanding crew, and presentation. Keith was our tour guide and did an excellent job...
the ultimate "oh hell no, you didn't" response
I like how he just casually says and 1 mountain like its normal
Reminds me of something in the same vein that I read recently from WWII. It involved the USS Johnston.
"From his perch in the gun director, Hagen spied a Japanese officer on the beach, waving a saber, rallying his troops to the fight, and thought, Why not? He put the officer in the sights of his slewing device. The fire-control computer clicked and whirred and zipped coordinates to the Johnston’s five main gun turrets. When Hagen closed the firing key, they all barked as one. The technology lived up to its brutal promise. The five-shell salvo obliterated the man.
“Mr. Hagen, that was very good shooting,” called Captain Evans from the bridge. “But in the future, try not to waste so much ammunition on one individual.”
James D. Hornfischer the Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors"
thats a great story i hope he was one of the few who made it off the johnston alive
@@ryanstuckey8677 Hagen did, Evans did not.
I think that may have served as a good psychological thing against those Japanese soldiers there. Just seeing their officer get alt-f4'd out of existence.
My grandfathers personal account to this day is so accurate to this! He was onboard when it happened. Would love to visit his ship soon! Thank you for the awesome story!
Still one of my favorite anecdotes. I also love the idea of a mountain being on the list of targets destroyed lol
Imagine giving that report to your Superior. "We engaged and destroyed the enemy position... Along with the mountain it was on!"
@@btrswt35 , LMAO!!!! 😂😂😂
I still want to hear of the details about the size of a mountain they removed
Overkill: When the gnat hurts a couple of your sailors, you take exception and act accordingly.
A couple being literally just 2
Not overkill.....just mission accomplished. That gun position is no longer a threat to anyone. Lesson is don't pick on something with more and bigger guns.
These days they call it FAFO. North Korea FA, and they Found Out (FO). OTOH, if you manage to score a hit like that on a battleship, the only reasonable response in self-defense is a full broadside. One, you don't know if there are other gun emplacements. Two, the psychological effect of erasing the entire existence of the artillery emplacement and support crew is enough to give the next would-be bold commander pause.
I'm an old woman. Can someone translate the alphabet above? I am not easily offended, don't worry. We are talking about someone erroneously firing on an Iowa battleship...
9 x 16 inch guns at one gun emplacement.... seems totally appropriate 😁👌
well this is why you never want to tick off a Iowa class BB
It might be that the Norks manning that battery misidentified 'Whiskey' as a Baltimore or Cleveland class cruiser. To the unpracticed eye they would appear similar, especially if you've never seen a battlewagon before. Both are big and crowded with guns.
I think the North Vietnamese made a similar mistake when one of their shore batteries near Haiphong tried to engage New Jersey. In reply she rearranged the topography of the island the old Japanese strongpoint was built into. One of NJ's shells penetrated into the ammo magazine and the whole shebang was blown to Mars.
At least the North Koreans hit their target, the NV missed entirely.
No such thing as overkill in war. They were fired on and responded and neutralized the enemy gun position. Wiping them off the planet was an added bonus.
Well, realistically they probably didn't know exactly what kind of enemy force they were dealing with so better to be safe than sorry!
@@btrswt35 bro. The other ship literally responded "temper temper" like it was over kill... still a funny story
Moral of the story.
Never piss off Big Wiskey
to bad we forgot how to respond to threats this way
Two questions remain:
1: what was the order given
2: what was the crew's reaction to it
I can imagine almost all personnel on both ships laughed when the smoke cleared and the wounded was treated.
Temper temper my ass. They didn’t play god that day they just arranged the meeting for judgement. Would have been a honor to serve under that skipper.
This is my favorite story about any battleship
The USS Texas ... gangsta leaning a battleship
willy d was pretty funny
Duncan: "Temper Temper"
Wisky "STFU They started it"
Hold my beer they started it.
Wisky had to woosah after that one
Great presentation
Respect from the UK subbed and liked
A full broadside is as much mass as about 8 VW Beetles. They threw a parking lot 🤣
That’s the consequence....3 projectiles for each man injured.
Sounds fair to me.
They fired a full broadside, all 9 guns, so 9 406mm shells.
Mess with the bull, you get the horns. 😁
good video America
"...and ONE MOUNTAIN." Cant stop laughing.
Great story.
Love the history!!!
That was not overkill. That was a direct warning: "Don't try that again, I have three sister ships and an Air Force!"
I mean they can’t try again if they wanted to. Wisconsin was basically that one kid in class who does their work and gets picked on once and lose their s***. Now the others are all thinking “Yeap not messing with them”
@@ChillinWithBlue
Absolutely.
LOL I AGREE!!!
It's a Wisconsin thing.... You wouldn't understand
All four Iowa's took damage during their careers.
Iowa BB- 61 suffered a turret explosion.
New Jersey BB- 62 took friendly fire.
Missouri BB- 63 got hit by a kamikaze.
Wisconsin BB- 64 took a direct hit from N. Korea.
Wow,I didn't know that
Iowa also suffered a bent shaft from a typhoon
NJ took a hit in Korea as well(and suffered her only combat loss of life). There was more damage caused by the muzzle blast of the number 3 turret firing too far forward
Missouri took friendly fire from a CIWS during the Gulf war
Wisconsin became WisKy when Kentucky's bow was grafted on after ramming the destroyer Eaton in heavy fog off Norfolk
Good description, but The Fat Electrician is where it is at.
Basically the ship diddn't just wiped the gun implacement and its crew but deleted the hill area they were on
That'll learn 'em, dern 'em!
She FIRED all 9! 16s!! Deletion complete✅!!!
One hell of a Korean artilleryman, who's enemies lived to tell about the best round he ever laid on target!
Always wondered what was going through the mind of that battery commander. Spots the biggest ship he's ever seen, knows good and well it's a Battleship, and somehow decides "Hey, let's take a crack at that thing"
And at this very moment he knew he had fucked up 😆
@@Jaybird12781 I mean he didn’t live long enough to regret it but he was the winner of the FAFO contest
Well they started it!!
Hope everyone was ok ❤
When I was in the navy I wanted to get orders to the wisky.
Yea....sounds appropriate coming from a ship named USS Wisconsin. ;)
9 gun salvo: I think you got em lol
They destroyed a mountain. 😅
That North Korean gun emplacement is probably equipped with the towed 152mm ML-20 gun-howitzer, a mobile version of which is the main gun of the SU-152 and ISU-152 tank destroyers.
My cousin Dennis Luek served on her
I can imagine the captain saying "Now they've done it, they ruined the paint job."
Then with an evil smile ordering "Give them all 9 16 i ch barrels!"
That's one big can of whoop ass!!!
Big whisky.....my favorite out of the four Iowa class.
take a bow
@@tryithere take a stern
@@davy1458 I guess it depends on your point of view.
USS Wisconsin: you talking to me? I don't see anyone else around, you taking to me??
Temper, temper
As the old saying goes, shouldn't have messed with my boat!
Hey that’s a my boat is an Italian Navy thing not ours?
Every account I’ve heard says that the USS Buck was with the Wisconsin, not the USS Duncan.
Continue to fire until the threat is neutralized.
I wonder if it is even physically possible to scoot fast enough to avoid a 16" broadside...
Some Machine Spirits are more temperamental than others, Warspite was semi-sentient the poor thing,
Are we allowed to discuss fire mission “death with dinner” yet?
...and One Mountain
Would Google Earth have before and after images? Or Landsat?
@@caramoore5293 - There should be aerial reconnaissance photos then.
@@JHNielson4851
You are not thinking. There was an enemy mobile cannon. It saw the Wisconsin, it went stupid, it fired four times and hit it once, wounding three US sailors. No one called for an aerial reconnaisance photo, the Wisconsin returned fire - firing one broadside with all 9 16" guns, and put a large hole where the gun and crew had been. Again, this was in the 1950s - the enemy moved the howartzer into place (I have no idea if that is spelled correctly, I'm going back to 'cannon') - made a boo boo and paid for it. There was nothinig there before the enemy moved in, and nothing there after the Wisconsin returned fire. Intel was not really useful in this case.
Poor mountain
America intensifies!
“It was just a prank…”
I had always understood it was the uss buck
I thought it was the escort USS Buck.
The USS Buck is the one that said “temper temper” but the Wisconsin is the one that got shot once and blew up a hill
I thought the same!... Let me guess, "The Fat Electrician"?
NK battery hits Wisconsin.
USS Wisconsin: "I hope you got everything you wanted out of your miserable life. Because it ends RIGHT NOW!"
We're is jonathan?
Pst pst temper temper
Oh that's cute, they wanna play tag... send 9 envoys their way. Tag you're it!
152mm (6in) vs 406mm (16in) guess we know who won that fight.
Over kill no such thing with the navy but if they send 152mm it's a perfect response to fire 400mm right back at them right
Temper temper
I mean, sometimes you should realize you are horribly out gunned and hold your fire and wait for better targets.
Sign on Korean gun emplacements: DONT FIRE ON AMERICAN BATTLE SHIPS!!! Play dead!
Darn it, I wish that we were given this opportunity to destroy a mountain, instead they send us off on this mundane diplomatic World Cruise Bravo Zulu USS Missouri (BB 63) 1985-1986.
Don't pick a fight , you can't win.
This is a result of messing with an Iowa Class Battleship.
Tssk tssk
Cool vid and story...need to work on your audio though...pathetically low and poor quality.
You guys always just show yourselves on your videos. Try showing some video related to your subject and keep the camera off you. Believe me, This will be far more interesting and instructional than just watching you standing there talking.
You have a point, mate!
I served on the Whisky Punch 87-91
Deck 3rd division
We used that area to go and get our paint just to his right where he is standing if memory serves me right
Loved every minute being on this ship and the people I served with!
BM3
Plank owner
Temper temper