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Ranked: The 5 Best Battleships of All Time
The National Interest ^
| May 7, 2024
| Maya Carlin
Posted on 05/09/2024 6:04:27 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man
If you go to the google earth image for Galveston you can see the Texas in dry dock opposite a modern cruise ship.
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posted on
05/10/2024 4:39:02 AM PDT
by
ops33
(SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
05/10/2024 4:49:22 AM PDT
by
Lurker
( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: Macho MAGA Man
To: Macho MAGA Man
I don’t count any ship with some success as great if it was sunk. The Bismark’s mission was to attack and sink convoy ships which it assisted on once. For it’s power, it did very little in it’s about 18 month life except for sinking the Hood which was not it’s mission.
Except for hitting some of our ships during the Battle of Samar, The Yamato did next to nothing in it’s 4 years of life.
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posted on
05/10/2024 5:14:01 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
To: FLT-bird
This is a joke to not put the Yamato and her sister ship the Musashi first. All rep, no service. Claim to fame in battle was how much punishment they soaked up before sinking.
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posted on
05/10/2024 6:10:16 AM PDT
by
xone
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To: Jimmy Valentine
Did you possibly forget Leyte Gulf? Not to minimize the *significant* actions of the lighter combatants in that melee, Leyte Gulf never developed into a peer vs. peer capital ship surface battle slugfest. It's a pity that Halsey pulled the newer battleships too far north.
Drachinifel's YouTube channel has a pretty good "what if" video about that battle's possible outcome if Halsey had detached the battleships before chasing the Japanese bait. Pretty logical assessment of how the Yamato would've fared vs. Iowas and SoDaks (and even Ching Lee's USS Washington) as part of a traditional battle line.
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posted on
05/10/2024 11:29:27 AM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Charles Martel
I was thinking of Adm Oldendorf and the old battleships at Surigao Strait. Maryland, Pennsylvania, California etc. shot the Japanese to pieces there.
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posted on
05/10/2024 12:15:22 PM PDT
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
To: Macho MAGA Man
"You got that right"
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posted on
05/10/2024 2:15:00 PM PDT
by
guest7
To: Jimmy Valentine
True, the stellar work by the destroyers and the game-changing escort carriers' skilled pilots often take center stage at Leyte (so much so that they often deprived the big-gun ships of targets). Yamashiro may have been damaged and slowed by torpedo hits, but the "Ghosts of Pearl Harbor" did indeed get a taste of revenge - in the last battleship duel.
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05/10/2024 3:19:27 PM PDT
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Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Does so
Let’s call the whole thing off
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05/10/2024 3:23:50 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
To: Macho MAGA Man
Looks like they forgot the Yamato , one of the biggest ever built.
To: FLT-bird
Biggest battleship disaster, HMS Hood.
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posted on
05/10/2024 3:35:10 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Captain Peter Blood
It’s listed. Did you read the link?
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05/11/2024 2:12:10 AM PDT
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Macho MAGA Man
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