Battleship New Jersey returns!

I worked in an Army machine shop at Crane Naval Weapons Depot at Crane Indiana for 3-years while I was going to college.

While I was there they scraped all the tooling from the Tool Room for the 16" projectiles used on the big battle ship guns.

They also scraped a lathe that had 100 foot center. Yes 100 foot center It almost made me cry watching them cut it up in little pieces.

Smart bombs are so much more accurate and easier to deliver. I love the old battle ships but we won't see them back in service again.

Tom