Wasp (CV 18) - Naval Cruise Book

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PART II - NARRATIVE 5 ' isolated stationg and Three, to retain sufficient control of fire to protect own ships and aircraft frqm the de- Aj StTuCtiVO effects of pOSSiblQ Wwild firing.n. . TDC Nerk 37 director - Mark l computer system Wasil admittedly too slow in reaching a solution to Cgnbgt surprise attacks close aboard. Therefore, the SH bat- 'Qi tory was broken down into units controlled as far as possible by Mark 5l directors land later by'Mark 57 and ' Mark 63 after yard overhaulb. indditional wiring and y t lled during in-port periods by the n switches were ins a ship's fire contrelmen to provide for control of two - ch and one fortylli quad in automatic from barrels of 5-in . c Q a Mark 5l director. Four such Hlndependent Pland stations' one in each sector were set up as time and materials H became availa e. 1 on the Mark 37 the computer bl The low twins were kept directors with short range barrage set and t one or at most two ranges would sufficet so arranged tha c for a solution on a near OO target angle attack. All if les. In addition? five inch fired lOOf influence projecti each of the controlling directors for five inch were t, placed on the 5J? circuit in direct communication with control, C.I.C. and Elot so as to receive ai' A gunnery maximum of ungarbled information.

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T RT II I RRATIVE CU-WTfT'7 TV DVD QT1 NT CUTVWfOC11. IU w1cmBvraaUmm:mHmm CUUUOTY 01flC0T L1 ut Comdr D Gaddls, UST In OCt0bwT l9Lh when the Iamlk vo became the out Sbqndlng HPHOOC to fleet ODGTet1ODS, soecial orocedures and tTUlUlUS had to be develooed to combat thls close range, surprlse tyve of tt ck In general th gulncry doetrlne was changed llttlc wlth the AO1H CMUhOS1S b leg olocea on an lQtCHS1f1CHtlOH of trolnlmg 10 lookout alertness sud TCCOgHlt1OU for all 1 of the b ttert s well as USSlgHOO lookouts, persoaae and trelnlag of gun crows for SUTUTlSe attack to reduce detd tlmc from slgntlng aa att cklng plane to OOOHlDg flre to mlH1dUM The org P1ZctlOE already orovlded rlmtrv responslolllty for mounts, groups,, control ln for sectors of fel dec ntrallzatlon of S oetty offlccr and oatt T163 no nhleh the control ofileer Cor lr some case or lc dershlp aollltyb of a unlt had re on hOStl1O lrcrait ttOC1lHg GSUQC1 lly 910K d f authorlty to ooen fl thls Shlp blems of combattlng close ln attack The SDCOlQl fro were One, to lHCTOUSG the CffCCtlVOHCSS of 5 lnch close' abovrdg Two, to shorten the tlme necessary to get ill bgttgrigs on an attacker wicked ua by a comparatively 1 1

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:ilL2BB.!iTl5Ei 535?VEE9lTE3QIQQEU?l9OHt-J The control of LOMM gud llvc lnch from the Same H ,n 1 Y, v. ndepen- a director was necessary to thc Success of this NI Q Hu J , H fi -D ' 1 'L' f1 1 A W ' , , dent i1on.' lt hcs been tne writer's experience that the ,g OCCUTCCY Of O 'QUiCK-firing' director's control of five' 2 W inch OHlY GHHHOU be judged or corrected. The addition of the LOVE gives a good indication of effectiveness of' j the firing to director and control personnel, and the ff? comparatively small difference of five inch and AOTK iii fd Q trajectories at short ranges only add to the hitting ide? possibilities by increasing the size of the cone of fire wig from one director. Each group was aligned to make the T OO to 3000 yards near the trajectories intersect at 25 center of the sector of responsibility. The effectiveness of hits from heavy AA in destroy- I ated. This system lv. ,if ,.l-4 ing Kamikaze aircraft cannot be underre has delivered those hits and is in large neasnre respon- sible for the fact that the TABP has never been hit by a fm? Kamikaze. R am LN The second problem was to keep all stations in as vt high a degree of lcitnes s oossible id to get m1Xl , mum number of guns Ol ny ttacler The fiist steo was to ieep a from Ol information goinQ to the entire battery ' '-e a well the best Q d fr1e'dl1cs s , OSltlOIl'3 Ol enemy WJ- lv I C -w 1 A . S -L , Q-A .2 Ll K no I is 1 ni -' ., .ii- '. Fi! 'w rw- rw f. f 15 4 'f 3. p. Lx L,. X 0 A, W .fn ' Vg. 0 4 , Z ' ' ,n , ',. ' I. 5-. , ff ' ... 'V 1 W - al - 1 -+f J - V is .-'-icy 4 q 'W . ,M A A 'N N . E ' rn' FJ- ' ,U PIE- LL kk 'Ac 'Lx' , -- M. 1 ' 1, A .Eff if - ,. -,iz 6 , ' . MA? ' iff W , 'fit if 2 tbl :iii - ? Sf me sh 1 u