Even worse, these ships essentially arrived in time to meet a threat that no longer existed.
While Alaska wasn’t even a state at the time, the United States Navy developed a new class of warship named in honor of the then-territory. All six of the subsequently planned vessels were to be named after territories or insular areas of the United States and the reason was somewhat fitting in that these weren’t battleships nor were the ships actually cruisers. They were essentially a new and unchartered territory in warship design.
Their career was also cut short, with the ships’ service spanning less than three years.
Franklin lived a short but eventful life, joining the Pacific Fleet in mid-1944.
Franklin was the first fleet carrier to absorb a
direct strike from a Japanese kamikaze, in the aftermath of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. But the flattop was to endure its
worst trial in March 1945, while operating with Task Force 58 off the Japanese seacoast.
Seldom does your humble scribe come away incensed from reading history. The saga of the World War II aircraft carrier USS
Franklin (CV-13) constitutes an exception. We normally think of
Franklin’s history as a parable about the importance of shipboard firefighting and damage control. It’s about materiel and methods, in other words. And these things are important without a doubt. Fighting ships are metal boxes packed with explosives and flammables. Suppressing fire represents a crucial function, which is why the first thing a new sailor does after reporting aboard is qualify in rudimentary damage control.
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Here s What You Need to Remember: The destruction of
Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was clear that the age of the aircraft carrier had already superseded the battleship, but the insistence of battleship-minded general officers to cling to obsolete military technology undermined Japan’s conduct of the war and sent thousands of Japanese sailors needlessly to their deaths.
In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, most powerful battleships ever built to protect Okinawa, the gateway to Japan’s Home Islands. The decision sealed the fate of the battleship