Talk:Intrepid/Gallery/@comment-73.179.246.93-20180222051004/@comment-73.179.246.93-20180223074440

We had a lot of carriers in a lot of battles. I don't mean to demean her or her crew, "average" for a WWII U.S. Navy carrier is still admirable, but she really wasn't any better or worse than her peers.

As for Iowa I said she was a symbol. Both the Iowa-class and the Yamato-class were too late to see the heyday of battleships, but they represent the pinnacles of two design philosophies, the last word in Battleship design, and the last of a dying breed.