The Iowa explosion occurred in the turret of one of her 16-inch guns as the crew was loading the gun.

They put four in each canoe, and two paddlers would take it down the river, while the crew loaded the next canoe.

The crews would load the cartridges into readers in the planes, and the mission would begin.

The barge was alongside and the crew were loading into No. 3 hold.

The crew will load him full of lead, if he does.

They later moved to the forward half of the boat deck, where they continued to play as the crew loaded the lifeboats.

Just back from five tough weeks of workups in the Atlantic, his crew was now loading provisions for their first operational deployment.

Antitank-missile crew popped the covers off their targeting scopes and loaded the first weapons of what promised to be a long afternoon.

Officials said the crew was loading six 110-pound powder bags to fire a non-explosive dummy round for target practice when something went wrong.

Once they were threaded, crews could load them with fuel and oxygen from the staging area of the seventh chamber bore hole.