It also says that some crew members were not fully trained for their jobs, officials said. The long-awaited report also recommends disciplinary action because officers failed to make sure the three guns in the No. This finding of probable cause is scheduled to be disclosed today when the Navy releases a 1,100-page report. If Hartwig actually did this, as the Navy suspects on the basis of its lengthy investigation and exhaustive FBI examination of the residue in the gun barrel and surrounding area after the horrific fireball tore the turret's interior apart, the gunner's mate would have known he would be the first to die as flames shot out of the open breech and engulfed him.
A device that would be triggered when the gun's rammer pushed the silk bags of powder together, or a timing device, could easily set off the powder, experts said. 2 turret blew up, they said, meaning he was closest to the breech, the best position to booby-trap it without being observed. Hartwig was serving as gun captain April 19 when the No. Hartwig "probably" placed some kind of igniting device between powder bags inside a 16-inch gun of the battleship USS Iowa, causing a premature explosion that killed Hartwig and 46 fellow sailors, defense officials said yesterday.
The Navy, with a big assist from FBI laboratory work, has concluded that Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Clayton M.
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