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perisher · 05-03-07, 11:02 AM

I've been looking into rates of fire and in doing so I found Vice Admiral James Calvert USN saying that during the war, when he was a junior officer in the USS Jack, they tried their best to reduce the number of men in a gun's crew, simply to reduce the number of men on deck. For instance, on a 3 inch, the roles of gun captain, pointer and spotter were combined into one, but with a direct intercom connection to the radar operator for assistance in spotting the fall of shell.

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perisher Frogman Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England Posts: 300 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	I've been looking into rates of fire and in doing so I found Vice Admiral James Calvert USN saying that during the war, when he was a junior officer in the USS Jack, they tried their best to reduce the number of men in a gun's crew, simply to reduce the number of men on deck. For instance, on a 3 inch, the roles of gun captain, pointer and spotter were combined into one, but with a direct intercom connection to the radar operator for assistance in spotting the fall of shell. __________________ "Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)