Posted on 05/09/2024 6:04:27 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Before the rise of aircraft carriers, battleships were every navy’s most powerful asset.
Over the years, scores of these vessels sailed the seas, bristling with weapons, and their actions marked the turning points of world wars and other major conflicts.
Five battleships stand out among their number.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
If you go to the google earth image for Galveston you can see the Texas in dry dock opposite a modern cruise ship.
Captain Ching commanded that ship. A fascinating guy. He was an Olympic sharpshooter.
https://youtu.be/cu9Mi0ury38?si=-8IQDyhXTjIgfUjf
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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.
All rep, no service. Claim to fame in battle was how much punishment they soaked up before sinking.
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.
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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Let’s call the whole thing off
Looks like they forgot the Yamato , one of the biggest ever built.
Biggest battleship disaster, HMS Hood.
It’s listed. Did you read the link?
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