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...role of the battleship as a weapon with which to win battles at sea a la Jutland has practically vanished...
Thus the U.S. Navy, in releasing the long-awaited anniversary story of Pearl Harbor, officially acknowledged the end of a chapter in naval history. Historian Winston Churchill had written the text of that chapter after Jutland, saying that "Jellicoe could lose the war in an afternoon"-if he lost his battle fleet. When the U.S. lost its battle fleet that sunny morning a year ago, a new chapter in naval warfare began...
...commentary is often corny and certainly this is not by any stretch the story of the whole Battle of Midway. But history would be a different matter if there had been a few such sketchy pictures of Austerlitz, of Jutland, of Gettysburg and Verdun...
...into firing range or draw a bead on her. A destroyer trying it would likely get sunk. A mine could only sting the Iowa. Her heavy guns match any on land or sea, and with them she could have taken on the whole German battle fleet of Jutland. On the surface, these new ships can take care of themselves...
...large amount of Navy thinking in the past-by Secretary Knox as well as the admirals-has been built on the Jutland-Trafalgar tradition of great fleet battles, meeting enemy line to line in a great slugging match. But sea battles are now fought by aircraft while the fleets lie over the horizon (cf. Coral Sea and Midway) and the fleet's main job is to keep the sea lanes open...