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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Your not nitpicking at all but the USS Missouri for example wasn't ordered till June 1940 but was still launched and ready for combat by June 1944.
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It was commissioned in June. Note however that like Iowa it spent a good six months afterwards training and fine tuning before being actually sent to the theater and committed to operations. By then the IJN had de facto ceased to exist as a surface opponent. Could it have been used sooner? Maybe, but I would bet there would be a lot of crossed fingers in that case.