To: COEXERJ145
The equalizers definitely would have been the U.S.S. Montana Class BB's had they been built with 12 of the same 16" guns that the Iowa Class carried. They were cancelled late in the war.
63 posted on
07/03/2006 9:47:49 AM PDT by
Defender2
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To: Defender2
Yep, the
Montana class would have been the ultimate battleships but alas they were never built.
As an interesting note, during the days of battleship building, Montana was the only state never to have an active duty battleship named for it.
82 posted on
07/03/2006 10:44:03 AM PDT by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: Defender2
Not many people know about the Montana Class battleships or the fact that two more Iowa class ships were partially built. These were the Illinois and Kentucky.
The bow of the partially built Kentucky ( BB-66) was used to repair the Wisconsin after she suffered a collision at sea. The Kentucky's keel was laid in 1944 but she wasn't scrapped until 1958.
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