Reading post 597911 in main thread: Battleship is not obsolete
April 6th, 2011  
sully
 
 
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Originally Posted by 03USMC
But it was a Cold War Boggey Man when it was launched, and it's operating and performance factors were not known, hence the US recommissioned ships of roughly the same size.
You are right about the Bogyman part it was a mean looking Ship like the Carrier Cruisers but I don't think that had anything to do with the Re-Commision of our Battle Wagons the Iwoa Class BB was super great as a Troop support you can ask any Jarhead or Dogface that was in Vietnam.
 
 
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