Interesting article on the refit if HMS Nelson in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Nothing else confirms the ascendancy of the United States and decline of the British Empire. The Royal Navy, pride of Britain and for centuries the symbol of her military power, has to rely on an American naval yard to refit one of their ships. And Nelson was not the only British ship to be serviced; this was a fairly routine happening during the war.
In a sense, it seems to me that the United States was the only great power that actually “won” World War II.