When the United States and its allies entered World War II, the Iowa-class battleship quickly proved ... guns on three turrets, the Montana would have had 12 16-inch guns of the same class in ...

While the ship didn’t have a long life, it left an impact that’s still being felt today. “That turret is the first turret that fought in combat in world history,” Hoffman said.

The great defect of these ships is the lack of protection to the magazines below the big gun turrets. There are no handsomer battleships in our navy than these of the “Georgia” class.