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Originally Posted by Marcello
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.
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She actually participated in actions at Iwo Jima and Okinawa amongst others.