6. North Carolina Class
On June 1, 1940, the first of the new North Carolina class battleships, the USS Washington, was launched. She and her sister ship, the USS North Carolina, were the first of the new generation American battleships that called for better torpedo and deck armor, longer endurance and gas protection.
Over the next three years there was hardly an action that the North Carolina class were not involved in.
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VIDEO: See the North Carolina Class in action
