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To: kiryandil

She only had 5 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal. guns as main armament.

You are forgetting her torpedoes.

31 posted on 04/02/2021 6:43:48 PM PDT by fso301

To: fso301

Good point - but that was common currency on BOTH sides.

I think the Americans may have caught up with the superb Japanese torpedoes at this point in the war.

We have the utility of the torpedo hammered into us in The Destroyermen series [by Taylor Anderson]

33 posted on 04/02/2021 7:15:34 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)

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