History Buffs: Question for you!

[999000]

ENTERPRISE.

[Masherbrum]

Yes I was asking about Battleships not Carriers, and all the ships listed (Yamato, Hood, Bismarck) were Battleships although the Hood was technically a Cruiser

What is your point of this thread?   Honestly.   You're getting a few of your facts wrong.   The Hood was NOT a "Cruiser", it was a "Battlecruiser".    

[Masherbrum]

USS Oklahoma and the BigE

The Oklahoma was sunk and never saw action in WWII.   The ONLY two "battleships" that can possibly be considered are the Washington or South Dakota, but none had the luster of the "Enterprise". 

Iowa Class didn't really "achieve" much in WWII.   

1.  Enterprise
2.  USS Washington (stellar service in WWII, especially at Guadalcanal)

[RipChord929]

Pride of the US Navy?  USS Enterprise!

Pride of the US "big gun" Navy?  USS Washington!

The only US battleship, to sink an enemy battleship
in a heads up fight.... A 2vs2 slugfest... At night,
with both sides groping in the dark...

That puts it in a VERY small group of ships...

Surigao straight, wasn't a "fair fight" in my book...

Now, if you had asked, What was the "HERO" ship of
the US navy?   For Now and All time!
USS Johnston or Sam Roberts, would be it!!!

IMO

RC

[Furball]

Question No.2: Which A/C was the pride of the RAF in WW2, apart from the Spitfire.

Lancaster or Mosquito.  The Mossie was probably the best aircraft of the entire war.

[Furball]

F4U Corsair?

The RAF did not use the Corsair.

[1pLUs44]

USS Texas, BB-35.

[Plawranc]

USS MISSOURI

[RufusLeaking]

Surigao straight, wasn't a "fair fight" in my book...

Now, if you had asked, What was the "HERO" ship of
the US navy?   For Now and All time!
USS Johnston or Sam Roberts, would be it!!!

Too lazy to check, are these the Taffy 3 Destroyers that charged the Jap battleships?

Those guys had some large brass appendages.  <S>

[bobtom]

The USS Wisconsin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ATYPrZnSQ

http://www.nauticus.org/wisconsin.html


"the Battleship Wisconsin is one of the largest and last battleships ever built by the U.S. Navy"

[AWwrgwy]

Too lazy to check, are these the Taffy 3 Destroyers that charged the Jap battleships?

Those guys had some large brass appendages.  <S>

Taffy 3 and the mentioned destroyers were involved in the Battle of Samar off the Leyte invasion beaches with the escort carriers supporting the invasion transports.

The Battle of Surigao Strait involved 6 BBs sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor, USS West Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, California, and Pennsylvania, 4 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, 28 destroyers and 39 PT Boats against the Japanese Southern Force consisting or 2 Battleships, Yamashiro and Fusō, the heavy cruiser Mogami, 4 destroyers and, 25 miles behind, Admiral Shima's force consisting of 2 Heavy Cruisers,  1 Light Cruiser, and 7 Destroyers.

Map: The Battle of Surigao Strait

It was the last of the Battleship vs. Battleship encounters.  Surface combatants only.

wiki battle of Leyte Gulf

The U.S.S. Washington was involved in the first Battleship vs. battleship encounter of the was in the Pacific off of Guadalcanal on November 15, 1942 where she, along with the U.S.S. South Dakota, 1 cruiser and 4 destroyers  engaged the Japanese force consisting of the Battleship Kirishima, 2 Heavy Cruisers, 2 Light Cruisers and 9 Destroyers.

See wiki


wrongway

[Nemisis]

Pride of German Navy was the Bismarck
Pride of Japan's Navy was the Yamato
Pride of Bristish Navy was the HMS Hood

But what was the Pride of the U.S. Navy?

My guesses would be the USS Arizona cause it was targetted by Japan or the USS Missouri because it was an Iowa-Class Battleship and those were the largest U.S. had

Well for the guy that said most of U.S. ships were in classes well so were the other navies' ships.

Bismark class- was composed of the Bismark and the Tirpitz if I remember correctly.
Hood class- was composed of the Hood, no other ships.
Yamato- I have no idea if it was in it's own class or part of another. I would have to guess Yamato class, not sure if Japan had classes like the U.S., England, and Germany.

U.S. fleet, I would have to go with the U.S.S. Arizona on that one. I will check. Sorry can't find anything about it but I still go with the Arizona.

[Masherbrum]

Well for the guy that said most of U.S. ships were in classes well so were the other navies' ships.

Bismark class- was composed of the Bismark and the Tirpitz if I remember correctly.
Hood class- was composed of the Hood, no other ships.
Yamato- I have no idea if it was in it's own class or part of another. I would have to guess Yamato class, not sure if Japan had classes like the U.S., England, and Germany.

U.S. fleet, I would have to go with the U.S.S. Arizona on that one. I will check. Sorry can't find anything about it but I still go with the Arizona.

The H.M.S. Hood was in the Admiral Class of battlecruiser.   The three other planned ships within the class were cancelled due to the G3 battlecruisers (and N3 battleships), but none of those never made it past the planning stage.

[Nemisis]

Ah......damn book lied to me!!! Ah well, what ever. Thank for fixing my mistakes. <S>

[Rich46yo]

Well I guess you can pretty well pick any ship you want. This was the size of the USN at the time of Japans surrender in August 1945.

23 Battleships- 28 Fleet Carriers- 71 Escort Carriers- 72 Cruisers- 377 Destroyers- 361 Frigates- 232 Submarines- 586 Mine Warfare- 1204 Patrol craft- 2547 Amphibious ships- 1267 Auxiliary ships. A total of 6768 active USN Hulls.

So we had a little difficulty picking just one as "The Pride".