# Talk:USS Indiana (BB-58)

The article states:

The ship was armed with a main battery of nine 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 guns[a] guns in three triple gun turrets on the centerline, two of which were placed in a superfiring pair forward, with the third aft. The other four turrets were placed aft of the superstructure in two superfiring pairs.
This appears to me to be erroneous since it refers to three turrets in the main battery (which I believe is correct), then "the other four turrets" which I believe to be an error.  There are not any other turrets in the main battery.  Since I am not a subject expert I just wanted to draw the attention of someone that may actually know what is being referred to here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.4.134.53 (talk) 02:38, 25 June 2017 (UTC) 

They must be refering to the 5 inch gun turrets but whatever it is they mean to say is completely unclear. Missaeagle (talk) 18:23, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

The entry regarding the relief of the commanding officer subsequent to the collision with USS Washington is in error.  It reads as follows:
On 23 January Admiral Chester Nimitz removed him from command and replaced him with Captain Thomas Peyton.
According to ussindianabb58.com, James Mortimer Steele assumed command of the ship on 13 January 1944, and was relieved just two months later, on 17 March.  He was replaced by Thomas Joseph Keliher.  Steele and Keliher were the fourth and fifth commanding officers of the ship.  Thomas Green Peyton was the second commanding officer.  In any event, the collision occurred on 1 February, after the 23 January date cited in the article.SeymourBears (talk) 02:18, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

The article downplays the collision. The Indiana almost sank. I do beleive the ship's Captain was relieved of command. Missaeagle (talk) 18:25, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

This material more properly belongs at "The Battle of the Philippine Sea" as it is not directly involved with Indiana.  I removed it to help tighten the prose: 
... and as four large air raids hit the American formations, the F6F Hellcats of the fleet, with minor assistance by the ships in the screens, shot down nearly 400 of the Japanese attackers. With able assistance from submarines, Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's forces sank three Japanese aircraft carriers, including Shōkaku and the brand-new Taihō. The air battle was called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".[11]
50.111.3.227 (talk) 07:51, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:USS Indiana (BB-58)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 15:25, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:25, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Fix the DAB in the first sentence of the design section; or just get rid of the redundant link.
Fixed
External links OK.
Can we get a file or ID number for that great photo, File:USS Indiana (BB-58) 1942.jpg?
Hmm, I can't find it on the NHHC website and Navsource doesn't have one
File:USS Indiana (BB-58) - 80-G-342732.tiff would not load
Works for me - weird.
Link standard and full load in the info box
Done
Link 1st and 2nd London treaties, broaden the displaced link to go to standard displacement and add one to full load.
Done
Down to armament, more later.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:17, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Fix the rounding error in the lede and in armor para as well as the excess precision for 17.3 inch barbettes. The conversion for the conning tower is redundant.
Think I've got these all
Convert .50-caliber and be sure to explain how it's different than caliber length
Done
Make sure that the infobox weapons totals match the armament para
Done
hyphenate Triple gun, fire control, surface search, air search if you chose to keep it as there's an article on early-warning radar.
Done
Add links to search radar, fire-control radar, Majuro
Done
Pretty sure that the Mk 3, 4, 12/22 radars were mounted on the Mk 37 directors, not the conning tower
Will need to check Friedman on this
Link battery (artillery) in the lede and add links to secondary battery and main battery
Done
Was the captain relieved when Indiana and Washington collided?
Not that DANFS says
Tell the reader where Seeadler Harbor is and the same for Ponpei
Done
When was she transferred to TG 34?
DANFS doesn't give specific details, but Halsey and 3rd Fleet took command of the FCTF four days before, though I don't know how immediate the unit re-numberings was.
I can tell that you really haven't researched her role during the Marianas, since I just had to do that for Hornet, and what you have is OK, but what I was wondering was more when she was transferred from TU 58.7.3 to TF 34 rather than the renumbering from 5th to 3rd Fleet.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:25, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
More later--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:16, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Keep it coming. Parsecboy (talk) 20:10, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Not sure that non-military types will understand "check her fire". Perhaps "cease fire"?
Done
Link sortie
Done
Japanese air attacks or kamikaze attacks?
Both were bombed - but regardless, kamikazes are air attacks :P
battleship Yamato but they and 15 April but did and in 1966 but her commas needed
Done
Tell the reader that the A6M is a Zero and that both the A6M and the Ki-43 are fighters. Double-check for other instances where you haven't identified the aircraft types.
I think those were the only two
Are there links to the Japanese steel companies?
Not that I'm aware of
August, part of missing word--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:25, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Fixed. Parsecboy (talk) 12:07, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

I’m seeing that USS Indiana and USS Alabama are both involved in the battle of the Philippines sea. With both saying they saw the first wave of Japanese aircraft on June 19. Either Alabama was there or Indiana was there and saw them first. Both couldn’t have saw them first. And neither are mentioned as sailing with the other as they’re being said to sail with either Massachusetts or South Dakota 12.71.223.35 (talk) 04:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Forgive me for not getting to it right now - hopefully I can get back to it soon - but I came across some more information regarding the usage of materials salvaged from the USS Indiana. I cam across some images (w/ captions & provenance) in our archive at work depicting the armor plating as it was used in the construction of a Radiation Counting Facility at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. I'm not sure if these have been made available digitally through any other institution yet, so my ability to share them here is limited.
For reference, here is the caption the images are accompanied by:
"The armor plating from the U.S.S. Indiana was used in the construction of the low background radiation counting facility, or "iron room" for short. The 350,000 pound structure is 14 feet long, 11 feet wide and 10 feet high. It's Dr. Lloyd's understanding that the plating was used as torpedo shielding before 175 tons of it were shipped to Utah for the iron room which was constructed in 1966.
The facility is used for metabolic experiments involving animals and humans. There are also some patient evaluations for physicians wishing to check for levels of radioactivity. The equipment can located radioactive tracers and measure electrolyte levels in the kidneys of patients. Total body potassium levels are also checked as a test for paralysis.
The iron room is one of only a handful of such facilities in the country. It has proved to be very useful in the testing of some experimental drugs.
Dr. Lloyd says the battleship steel is very useful because it was made before there was any fallout radioactivity. The shielding can screen out about 99 percent of the background radiation so highly accurate measurements can be made."
Unclear of what Dr. Lloyd is being referenced.
The images were received by our institution in 1978.
Might be worth a mention. Breich9 (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2025 (UTC)