World of Warships - San-Francisco Artillery Corps

visit the coreggidor island in the philippines

Never knew this was in my own back yard!

5:40 This is the kind of ammo I want in my tanks

I hope they'll include the Fort Drum in the Philippines.

What happened to the Guns afterwards?

where is the host from? I'm trying to place his accent

Wow, this is epic! Better than Discovery, do more about ships and battles! Maybe they will play it at history lessons :) Damn, I might even consider buying a premium at WoWs just to support these kind of videos...

spent more time here than I did anywhere else in San Francisco

Strangely they did not foil Golden Axe Army invasion.

Two of the ships these 16" guns were built for were not scrapped or cancelled by the Washington Treaty. Since there hulls were mostly complete they were allowed to be re-purposed as aircraft carriers, a kind of warship not considered a capital ship by naval authorities of the 1920's. These were the battlecruisers Lexington (CC-1) and Saratoga (CC-3). The Lexington-class was to consist of 6 battlecruisers, each carrying eight 16" main guns in four centerline turrets. They were designed in answer to the Royal Navy's 15" Admiral-class battlecruisers.

Oddly enough in the wake of WWI planners in both London and Washington began to think of war scenarios between Great Britain and the United States. The thinking was commercial rivalry between America and the British Empire would ignite a war between these two powers. Cooler head prevailed and the Washington Naval Conference was convened in 1921 to head off an arms race between the major naval powers: the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. Several counties without significant navies also attended: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal. These had overseas colonies and expressed an interest in attending. China also attended because even in 1921 they were in fear of an expansionist Japan. The USSR was not invited. Nobody was interested in dealing with Lenin's regime after the brutal killing of Tsar Nicholas and his family in 1918.

The Treaty resulted in the cancellation of the South Dakota-class battleships, and all but two of the Lexingtons. The RN's Admiral-class was cancelled or scrapped except one, the in-commision battlecruiser HMS Hood. The British also cancelled the four planed battlecruisers of the G3 class and four planned N3 battleships. As aircraft carriers the Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3) were the largest such ships in the world, but they were inefficient in the role compared to purpose-built carriers like the Yorktowns. Lexington was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea, but Saratoga did outstanding service and was torpedoed and hit by kamikazes and bombs and yet survived to be expended as a nuclear bomb target in Operation Crossroads.

When WoW Documentary is better than World of Warplanes >.<

I visited the batteries a few years ago it was really cool but vary long walk to get up to mountain tops where the batteries are

cool history ! those guns are same as the ones used on the defense of corrigidor

Meanwhile, BB players in-game regularly miss 9-12 shots fired at point-blank range into DDs.

Let me paint the scene.

Early on a Sunday morning, the alarm is sounded. "Enemy ship on the horizon!" yelled the officer. Within 5 minutes, the guns were ready to fire. 2 massive booms echoed throughout the surrounding area.

Abboard the enemy ship, 2 loud dings are heard. "Assess the damage!" exclaims the captain of the IJN Yamato, in Japanese.

[insert bounce ribbon x2]

Hm... going to see Fort Drum soon?

sadly all of the military bases in California are slowly but certainly being shutdown so they can build more houses for fuckin ghetto faggots that don't even work but they still get money -_-

Shore Batteries confirmed?

Why use meters for armor, and miles for distance? Pls keep the meter...

When you will add coastal forts to WoWS?