Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1944 — Page 12

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Tt Times Stall Writer WASHINGTON. —The battleship Missouri, one of the latest and the last of the 45,000-ton Iowa class to be commissioned “for war, convinced her 2500-plus officers and men during a shakedown cruise of several thousand miles that “she’s got everything.” : rides the Missouri's bridge. For her commanding officer Capt. William M. Callaghan, brother of the late Rear Adm. Daniel J. Callaghan, lleg } in a naval battle two years ago. Capt. Callaghan’s $100,000,000 bristles with 157 guns— nine 16-inch, 20 S5-inch, -aircraft pieces ranging 20-mm. machineguns what sailors call a “happy ~ Though this shakedown was the first time at sea for any - her personnel, beardless as well as veterans

This article was written by Daniel M. Kidney, Times Washington correspondent after he was a passenger on the new battleship, Missouri, on. its | shakedown cruise some time ago. Details of the Missouri and its companion ships of the Towa class have just been re-

leased by the navy departuickly developed an affection *for ment. her, and an eagerness to put their : armament to work against the Japs at sea were the ones the kids picked as soon as possible. out to emulate. The crew was under constant Such an old-timer was Master-at-in fighting techniques Arms Robert Burns, a Scottishduring the cruise, The ship was| Irishman of 49 with 20 years’ servblacked out at night, leaving only|icé at sea, in the navy .and the moonlight to guide the men about ‘merchant marine, and who likes to the vast decks and turrets. “Dawn|fight cven if only with fists. He alert” at 4:40 a. m. would bring all] went to sea at 16, and this is his hands to battle stations, and nét third war ‘aboard a battleship—the until an hour after dawn would they | first having been the firing at Vera

. kf Cruz. be relieved for b st. “The way they build ships now-, Detail Tremendous adays is cream puffs for the sailors,”

Once in the practice firing zone, | 1€ said, proud as a peacock about)

” {the Missouri. But he didn’t think the ship became more tense. Bul, potter punks and food had

some of the sailors could sleep right | softened up the crew. through a salvo of the nine 16-inch| “These kids are the finest lot I rifles, which made the great ship ever shipped with, and every one a shudder and almost blew the cotton | fighting man” he said. “out of well-stuffed ears, “You don’t want sailors’ who are ‘Capt. Callaghan took his men into | softies, War is one hell of a busihis confidence early. They were in-iness and you have to be tough to formed over the loud-speaker sys-|win it. They'll cuss it and hate it, tem just where they were headed|but when it is over, everything else for, and how long the trip would|they do will seem unimportant.” take, thus averting the otherwise! Between wars Burns got a job as inevitable flood of “scuttlebutt” or! a_ ranger in one of the national rumors. | fOrests, and he now owns a 25-acre Some of the youngsters on the farm outside Spokane, Wash. Missouri looked as if they didn’t give their exact age when they cn-; said. listed. They seemed immature for | “Do you have a “wife?” he was 17. Usually these were the boys asked. who swaggered most in what they| “No. hope will pass for an old-salt man- myself.” ner. The old sea joke was told aboard Older men, such as chief pejty the Missouri, about what a sailor officers and warrant officers, ran does with his money: “Some of it

? can make trouble enough

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