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From: mailrus!sharkey!amara!khai@uunet.UU.NET (S. Khai Mong)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Battleships
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.024749.5785@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 02:47:49 GMT
References: <1990Oct24.012123.19865@cbnews.att.com>
Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker)
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From: mailrus!sharkey!amara!khai@uunet.UU.NET (S. Khai Mong)

In article <1990Oct25.145356.29834@cbnews.att.com> swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams) writes:
(about Japanese-American battleship duels)
   [mod.note:  This is incorrect.  There were Japanese-American battleship
   duels off Guadalcanal and at the Suriagao Straight. - Bill ]

The battle of Suriagao Strait was a no-contest, though.  The Japanese
fleet coming up the strait was not the best the Japanese had to offer
plus, given the geography, they were almost on a suicidal mission.  In
fact, it was one of the few times in history that the classic "T" was
crossed, where the entire broadside of the American battleship line
was brought to bear on an advancing Japanese fleet.  The disastrous
results for the Japanese would have been worse if the American ships
hadn't been low on armor piercing rounds. 
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