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From: klb@pegasus.att.com (Kevin Blatter)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Battleships
Summary: Battleships sunk
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Date: 16 Oct 90 01:08:04 GMT
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From: klb@pegasus.att.com (Kevin Blatter)

I noticed recently when reading the article on the USN Battleships that only
two BB's were sunk during combat (and stayed that way).  The only two that I
recall from the list were the USS Arizona and the USS Utah, both of which are
collecting barnacles at Pearl Harbor.

Could this really be true?

How come the US never lost any other BB's?  Good tactics?

Kevin L. Blatter
AT&T - Bell Labs
Lincroft, NJ

[mod.note:  More like good luck, I guess.  Our entry into WWI didn't
come until the British navy defeated the Germans at Jutland; there were no
big naval fights after that.  We didn't get involved in the early WWII
fighting in the Atlantic, where ship-to-ship gunnery did occur, and in the 
Pacific, the prime targets were (after Pearl Harbor) always carriers.
There were, of course, some battleship gunnery fights in the Pacific,
but excepting Yamato and Musashi, our battleship line was superior to
that of the Japanese; and the Yamatos were both sunk by aircraft. - Bill ]