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HMS Belfast: Part One

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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How Do You Know if You've Hit It or Not?

If you're firing six miles away, you won't have the height to be able to see your target. The gun spot er as on is on the o gang, radioing back. It will constantly up dating to give a different range and bearing for each of the guns. And so being a stoker was no longer simply having a shovel and bringing in coal. It becomes a very sophisticated thing. As oil fied boilers take over from coal file boils. So that throughout the raw navy, everybody's roll is very technical, and it requires a degree, a high degree of initiative.

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