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...owned two books detailing how to build a detonating device. He had talked about dying in an explosion. He was the gun captain in Turret 2 of the U.S.S. Iowa on April 19 when a huge explosion in a 16-in. gun killed 47 sailors. On such admittedly circumstantial evidence, the Navy concluded last week that Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig, 24, who died in the blast, was "most likely" responsible for the tragedy...
...wake of the gun-turret explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa that in April killed 47 sailors, the Naval Investigative Service considered a bizarre theory: that Navy petty officer Kendall Truitt may have set off the explosion to collect on a $100,000 insurance policy taken out by a sailor killed in the blast. The story was guaranteed a full airing when Pentagon sources privately confirmed the investigation to the press...
...days after a 16-in. gun turret blew up on April 19 during practice firing on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa, the Navy presented one of the heroes of | the disaster at a press conference: Gunner's Mate Third Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly...
...Iowa and three similar warships were built during World War II and designed to withstand shelling from Japan's battleships. The Iowa was fitted with nine 16-in. guns capable of propelling shells weighing as much as 2,700 lbs. a distance of 23 miles. Three six-story turrets holding the guns were encased in armor up to 17 1/2 in. thick. When last week's explosion occurred during training exercises about 330 miles off Puerto Rico, that protective armor turned the turret into a tightly sealed pressure cooker...
...Tomahawk cruise missiles apiece, as the Navy once proposed, would cost more than $1 billion a vessel, an unlikely expenditure at a time of shrinking Pentagon budgets. But if the damage to the Iowa is beyond repair, the Navy may have no choice but to replace the burned- out turret with a cruise-missile loader -- or retire the old battlewagon once...