In company with the USS South Dakota (BB-57), Task Force 64 included Washington and met a Japanese force centered on the Kirishima. It was radar that let Washington open fire on the enemy first, a ...
Honorable mention goes to USS Washington (BB-56), the only U.S. battleship to single-handedly sink an enemy battleship, obliterating IJN Kirishima at Guadalcanal. -While New Jersey is preserved as ...