Talk:Iowa/@comment-26567469-20160520194546/@comment-26410405-20160522115526

12 inch guns during WW2 were equipped on Alaska class which were a type of large cruiser (battlecruiser) built by USN to counter post treaty heavy cruisers and battlecruisers of Germany and Japan. Intended to be a cruiser-killer they were comissioned too late in the war to take part in any surface engagement and instead two of the class (Alaska and Guam) served as fast carrier escorts in the Pacific with the rest being cancelled.

But anyway, this is pretty screwed up. I hope devs fix this.