The Battlewagon USS Mississippi (BB-41) fires her forward 14-inch guns. During the bombardment of Makin on 20 November 1943. Photographed from USS Baltimore (CA-68).”
My Dad saw what the Iowa Class Battleships did during his time in the Korean War. He said that a whole salvo of 9, 16 inch shells. Would literally lifted an entire hike from the ground.
For some reason I do not doubt this war story of his on this subject.
What The Mississippi looked like in WWII