The last battleship to battleship fight.I was 11 years old when I saw a Comic Book about the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and I talked my dad, a veteran of the Marines in WW2 into buying it for me. (Dell Combat Number 24 1967) I was wild about battleships.
Is your dad still alive?
Boowhoknew
He passed away in 2010. He enlisted in the Navy in 1940.
His first ship was USS Yorktown CV5. He was on her when she was sunk at Midway. He was reassigned to West Virginia. His first assignment on WEEVEE was to muck mud out of the engine rooms. He told me that during the course of the work they found 8 bodies of sailors killed when she was sunk.