Fired from one of the sexiest, most powerful Loan Wolves of the United States Navy. New Mexico never gets old, neither do the Pennsylvanias or anything else. Let's face it - If they met Japan's navy (Anything, the shitty boar named Fuso, etc.) they'd win due to technological superiority of the 1930s. Yorktown/Lexington Class Carrier was unrivalled. (Shokoku had much less protection, exposed fuel and lit up like a Roman candle (as most Japanese carriers do) at the Philippines, 1944.)
Fired from one of the sexiest, most powerful Loan Wolves of the United States Navy. New Mexico never gets old, neither do the Pennsylvanias or anything else. Let's face it - If they met Japan's navy (Anything, the shitty boar named Fuso, etc.) they'd win due to technological superiority of the 1930s. Yorktown/Lexington Class Carrier was unrivalled. (Shokoku had much less protection, exposed fuel and lit up like a Roman candle (as most Japanese carriers do) at the Philippines, 1944.)
Tyco200 6 days ago
my step dad bought this ship and scrapped it out.
polarisman800 6 months ago
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van061431 6 months ago
@van061431 I have a web page with a picture of the Mississippi being towed to the breakers.
van061431 6 months ago
It's a shame that efforts to convert the Mississippi into a museum ship failed. I would have loved to go aboard her.
AmericanPride42 9 months ago
Great seeing an old battlewagon continuing to be useful. As I recall, she served till the mid fifties, long after her sisters went to the breakers.
hellhound47bravo3 10 months ago