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| USS Cahaba (AO-82) refuels USS Iowa (BB-61) and aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La in the Pacific, 8 July 1945. |
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| USS Cahaba (AO-82) refuels USS Iowa (BB-61) and aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La in the Pacific, 8 July 1945. The Iowa's Mk.37 Secondary Battery Directors are topped with Mk.4/22. On Spot 2 radar equipment Mk.8, a Main Battery Fire Control set. Iowa's mainmast with heavier legs is now topped by a new radar platform for the "SR", the first entirely new air search set since CXAM and similar in antenna size (15ft x 6ft) to SC-2, on the main topmast. The relocated after "SG" surface search antenna is flanked by fighting lights and "Ski-pole" IFF antennas. On the starboard yard is a TBS antenna. Her foremast still has the 17-foot square "SK" antenna for long range (100nm) aircraft detection with a height capability at that range of 10,000 feet Behind it, on a topmast, the "DBA" radio direction finder flanked here port/starboard by two fighting lights. On the aft end of the foretop there is a new "SU", a higher resolution X-band surface search set with good range performance (20nm on a battleship). It's small dish shows a shorter wavelength and it is enclosed in a radome. There is an AS-56 antenna on the futtock brace of the foremast. Atop Spot 1 the Mk.8 Mod.3 Main Battery Fire Control set. On both yardarms are BK-7 and anemometers. Two "TDY" jammers port/starboard of her foretop are visible. |
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| USS Iowa (BB-61) refuels from USS Cahaba (AO-82), in the Pacific, 8 July 1945. |