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Re: IJN Battleships
Rich - you are certainly right about World War II Naval action being dominated by Carriers, but the subs were huge - particularly for us in the Pacific and the Germans in the Atlantic.
The fleet subs destroyed most of the Maru's and the B-29 Mine laying missions managed to put the coup de gras on the rest before carriers got into range of Japan...
The BB's were relegated to fleet AA support and floating artilliary - and I can speak from personal experience that I have never seen anything like fire support from the US Navy for grunts in range... nobody wants to be singled out by either a 16in shell or a Mk-84 bomb...
Regards,
Bill
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