I understand that Tennessee and Maryland were shielded from torpedo hits and were easier to repair than the BBs that suffered bomb and torpedo damage, and Pennsylvania being in dry dock was the least damaged of all, suffering a bomb hit and was strafed and was back in service by April 1942.
But the BBs that weren’t returned to service until very late in the war, was the labor and material, plus the men to staff them, worth it?
Would those resources have been better spent building destroyers and cruisers and submarines?
I’m sure there will be some that will argue that America’s ability to raise, repair and put them back in service was a major F/U to the Japanese, but I doubt that Japan was worried about what yhe US did with them after the attack.
But the BBs that weren’t returned to service until very late in the war, was the labor and material, plus the men to staff them, worth it?
Would those resources have been better spent building destroyers and cruisers and submarines?
I’m sure there will be some that will argue that America’s ability to raise, repair and put them back in service was a major F/U to the Japanese, but I doubt that Japan was worried about what yhe US did with them after the attack.
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