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050 00 $aVA65.I59$bT46 1999
082 00 $a363.12/3/0973$221
100 1 $aThompson, Charles C.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90646306
245 12 $aA glimpse of hell :$bthe explosion on the USS Iowa and its cover-up /$cCharles C. Thompson II.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorton,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $a430 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [409]-411) and index.
520 $aEarly one April morning in 1989, during a routine training exercise in the Caribbean, the center gun in Turret Two of the recommissioned battleship USS Iowa blew up. A batched investigation of the forty-seven fatalities began mere hours after the deadly explosion. Captain Fred Moosally, an Annapolis football star who had recently taken command of the Iowa, declined an offer of assistance from a professional accident team aboard a nearby aircraft carrier.
520 8 $aMatters worsened when the investigation began on land. An investigative panel was led by a rear admiral whose handling of a sister ship to the Iowa had come under critical review. A technical team managed to lose key evidence - two 2,700-pound projectiles, in a locked storage facility - while conducting tests that proved nothing but the team's own incompetence. Squads from the Naval Investigative Service tried to twist testimony from grieving relatives of the slaughtered crew members.
520 8 $aThe concerted effort to pin blame for the Iowa explosion on Seaman Hartwig, supposedly acting to revenge a thwarted homosexual affair, ultimately destroyed careers up the chain of command of the U.S. Navy.
610 20 $aIowa (Ship)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90006439
650 0 $aMarine accidents$xInvestigation$zUnited States.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNavy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059051
852 00 $boff,glx$hVA65.I59$iT46 1999