re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Good thing the US Navy never had to go toe-to-toe with that monster.

Indeed, but like her sister ship the IJN Musashi, they were taken out with carrier-based air power. The last of her class, the IJN Shinano, was converted to a carrier and sunk by four torpedoes from the USS Archerfish.

The Yamato-class were beautiful ships, but in the era of air power, sitting ducks.