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Welcome to DouglasDeBono.Com, the Cyberspace Home of
author Douglas De Bono.

Douglas de Bono is an excellent read and should not be missed by any fan of either thriller or military fiction. You will be left wondering just how much of his stories are real and how much is fiction.
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USS Wisconsin - BB-64

I had the privilege to visit the Wisconsin currently docked at Navy Park in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. It is a suitable place for one of the great battleships of our history. A couple of impressions:

1. As I walked the teak wood decks, I understood the majesty of this proud ship. It is no wonder men wanted to serve aboard these great ships.
2. There are three turrets - each with three 16 inch guns. The turrets weight 3000 tons and can traverse their firing arc in 15 seconds. They are four decks deep including a firing deck, two powder decks and 1 magazine deck.
3. BB-64 has 8 generators capable of 1250 Kilovolts each. A generator would be slaved to each gun turret and a fourth generator was kept in reserve. The other four serviced the rest of the ship.
4. The guns are capable firing a 2700 pound projectile 23 miles.
5. BB-64 has a helicopter landing and tie downs of the aft fantail.
6. She also carried 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles that were fired from rails along the superstructure.
7. The last time she sailed in harm's way was the Persian Gulf War.

The cost is free. Further details are available at www.nauticus.org