[Jimmy Valentine]

I was thinking of Adm Oldendorf and the old battleships at Surigao Strait. Maryland, Pennsylvania, California etc. shot the Japanese to pieces there.

[Charles Martel]

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.