Talk:Iowa/@comment-5946690-20160223155516/@comment-17703786-20160224171634

"Well they used the half-completed Montana to create the USS Midway"

No they didn't. The Montana's design was used as the basis of the Midway class carriers, but the keel was made from the ground up as a carrier, rather than an incomplete Montana hull that just got repurposed as such.

The Montana's physically never existed in any form period.