[ealgeone]

"Washington was now the only intact ship left in the force," Lippman writes. "In fact, at that moment Washington was the entire U.S. Pacific Fleet. She was the only barrier between (Admiral) Kondo's ships and Guadalcanal. If this one ship did not stop 14 Japanese ships right then and there, America might lose the war. ...

Writer has no clue what he's talking about.

The war would not have been lost but would have been extended another year..maybe two.

IF we'd lost Guadalcanal, more attention would have been shifted to the Pacific.

Our production would continue to ramp up and would not have begun to slow as it did in 1945.

The only way we were going to lose WWII was through lack of will.

We were a different country then.

[Robert DeLong]

It doesn’t say the war would be lost, just that it might be lost.

[devane617]

>>Writer has no clue what he’s talking about.<<

Please, enlighten me. The story is as it happened, but you seem to have a problem with it.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Fact on all points

[Calvin Locke]

The reason for the lack of presence of older battleships and cruisers was that most of the Navy oilers were supplying the UK, leaving only a handful available, maybe as few as two, in the entire Pacific theater.

The older ships were quite the fuel guzzlers. In fact, the USS Arizona was an early oil-fired ship. During WWI, the lack of oil facilities in the UK basically sidelined the Arizona to the US East Coast.