Re: 18.1" Anti-Aircraft Guns!!!

I read specifically in the Ballatine Book WW2 series of WW2 Leyte Gulf
edition
that teh US battleships were firing AA rounds out of their main guns. If
anyone
wants i may be able to dig up the specifics but I don't think they went
into any
more detail than that.

Los

ScottSaylo@aol.com wrote:

> The big guns used for anti-aircraft in WW II didn't fire any sort of
scatter
> shot at all. They were aimed ahead of the incoming torpedo planes to
splash in
> the water and the water splash would either knock the aircraft down,
or cause
> it to swerve during its torpedo attack, negating any success. The
Japanese use
> cruiser and BB main batteries in this manner. To the best of my
knowledge we
> never did.