It is hard to narrow down a list of the best of the dozens of battleships that took part in the war, but immediately scratched off are the likes of Yamato, Musashi, Bismarck, Tirpitz, and Prince of Wales. They provided fire support for naval landings in North Africa, Europe, and most notably the Pacific.
Navy was the only power whose battleships ever fired their guns in anger after 1945, but the role those warships played in World War II simply can’t be overstated. By the time the war ended, the age of the big-gun battle wagon was all but over. They were among the largest capital ships ever built, yet the conflict saw few battleship-to-battleship engagements. More than 60 battleships, including 23 from the United States alone, took part in combat operations during the Second World War.
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