Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Torplexed
As far as I know there was nothing effed up about the North Carolina and South Dakota classes which preceded the Iowas. They were excellent, fast carrier escorts unlike the older BBs at Pearl.
|
The 2 North Carolina's were in the Atlantic and the South Dakota's not yet completed.
And all six of these were too slow for the carriers, that's one more reason why the Iowas were built.
__________________
"E hoa, ka whawhai tonu mātou, Āke! Āke! Āke!"
(Friend, we will fight on forever, forever and forever!)
Rewi Maniapoto's reply to British calls for surrender, Orakau, 1864
|