Best Warship WWII [Iowa,Yamato,South Dakota,Bismarck,King George V,Richelieu,Vittorio Veneto] | Tokyo
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Ranking available on the website. http://www.combinedfleet.com/baddest. USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 29th state. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships, and was the only ship of her class to have served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. During World War II, she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Casablanca en route to a crucial 1943 meeting in Tehran with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. She has a bathtub — an amenity installed for Roosevelt, along with an elevator to shuttle him between decks.[1] When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands. She also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Adm. William F. Halsey's flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. During the Korean War, Iowa was involved in raids on the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the "mothball fleet." She was reactivated in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, and operated in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets to counter the recently expanded Soviet Navy. In April 1989, an explosion of undetermined origin wrecked her #2 gun turret, killing 47 sailors. Iowa was decommissioned for the last time in 1990, and was initially struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1995. She was reinstated from 1999 to 2006 to comply with federal laws that required retention and maintenance of two Iowa-class battleships. In 2011, Iowa was donated to the Los Angeles-based non-profit Pacific Battleship Center and was permanently moved to the Port of Los Angeles at Berth 87 and was opened to the public on 7 July 2012 to serve as a museum and memorial to battleships.
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my grandas brother was chief petty officer on King George v Battleship and was present in the naval battle with Bismark,,,
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Did anyone notice that the second photo in the Bismark section was a King George V class battleship ?
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ohhh... Yamato is 2nd??? u kidding me?
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e comunque la prima doveva essere la yamato aveva molta piu corazza cannoni piu pesanti e un migliore fuoco antiaereo
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guardate che la roma non è stata la prima nave di quella classe la prima è stata la littorio la rome divenne famose per il suo tragico affondamento
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1 Yamato 2 Montana 3 iowa 4 Bismarck 5 Vanguard
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Wasn't the dunkerque the Richelieu's sister ship
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Iowa would be in second place here. I know you guy love the beautiful american shipfu, as much as I do. But the plating difference, height is very important in naval warfare. Iowa had three turrets, 9 main canons of 16 inches with mark 7 shells during it's service in WW2. It is not enough to damage the Yamato plating severely enough with only one volley. Yamato pack 18.1 inches with with 4 type of shells that would have been enough to put the Iowa at trouble. Also big guns, more fire power. Iowa is out ranged in effective range. Iowa received maintenance and tuning for Korea war, and a modernization for Gulf war. So if you want to do a fair comparison you take the ship in their respective era. American Navy was working to build the Montana that was mean to fight on the Musachi (Yamato twin ship) But the war took a different turn and the hull was used for a CV class instead. Air Superiority was the only way to overcome the Japanese floating titan. And also, flight war marked the end of Battleship era. Anyways I am ranting, but I think this is more a top of "my favorite ships" and not the best by statistics.
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BISMARK WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREATEST ONE,AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT!!!
GERMAN TECNOLOGY IS THE LEADING ONE ON THE PLANET,THE REST ARE JUST COPYING. -
yeah-- iowa
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where's the USS arizona
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perhaps theres one way to settle this between the best battleships...world of warships
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Those "Bests" where a dying breed, some didn't even unleashed their promised firing rage, they where quickly obsolete, the US ships had more purpose, the Iowa was decommissioned in the 90's still best and successful Ship of it's class.
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yamato merecía el primero
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Yamato Was better then the Iowa
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Wrong order, Bismark would piss all over Iowa class!
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dunno...best speed, maneouver have iowa class, yamato was just to big, so iowa class rules
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Are you stupid??? Yamato have 3x3 — 460/45 mein armament, next to 3x3 — 406/50 Iowa. Everyone know then Yamato was largest dreadnought in history, and he was dropped down the sea by air-attaсk, and end-up all history of dreadnoughts.
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LMAO, "best warship" of WWII and they're all BBs.
Uh, NO, the best warships were undoubtedly carriers and some submarine classes, or even some escort classes for anti-sub warfare (especially in the Atlantic).
If you mean "best BB", call it that. BBs, however, were largely irrelevant to the conduct of WWII. -
bull shit