Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-27678539-20160127071135

93.141.243.255 wrote: In the end, surviving the war as an average active IJN warship was an acomplishment. Surviving the war as an average USN warship was just... normal. While it's true the USN had many more ships survive the war as a result of, well, winning it... to say it was "normal" for US ship to survive is a bit of a stretch. It was still war, and losses were not a freak occurrence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_losses_in_World_War_II