re: #343 Dark_Falcon

Thank you for that.

On another note, the fighting in the Solomons had another effect of considerable import to avanti. The IJN’s successful torpedo tactics proved almost impossible to counter with the slow-firing 8-inch guns that USN heavy cruisers mounted. This created critical demand for a faster firing 8-inch gun, which was finally put into service in the Des Moines-class, of which the Newport News was a member.

The Des Moines class were extremely nasty. Their main target in the 50’s was presumed to be the Soviet Sverdlov class cruisers. Sad to say, but I wish the Alaska class battlecruisers could haver had a similar career.