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by teachrdan 664 days ago
For those like me who didn't get this reference:

"On 19 April 1989, an explosion occurred within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico.[1] The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret itself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

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thanks, I ended up reading the whole thing. If you watched a movie about this you'd think the writers went too far.