[Rinnwald]

USS Enterprise too. She cut an absolute swath through the Pacific.

And as long as you got me started, the fightingest US battleships don’t get saved because, A. South Dakota doesn’t have a shoreline, and B. Washington is communist. Instead, you get ships like the “showboat”, USS Alabama, saved.

[Fai Mao]

Yeah at least the old USS Texas and New York did shore bombardment duties in North Africa, Normandy, and the Pacific. The captain of the Texas was wounded and I think received a bronze star.

The USS Washington, the ONLY US battleship to actually sink another battleship should have definitely been preserved.

[Rummyfan]

The USS Missouri is anchored at Pearl Harbor.

[abb]

We visited the USS North Carolina in Wilmington a couple of weeks ago. IIRC, that was the only one of the “modern” battleships that was torpedoed in WWII.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/w/war-damage-reports/uss-north-carolina-bb55-war-damage-report-no-61.html

USS North Carolina (BB55)
Torpedo Damage
Solomon Islands
15 September 1942