“heavily damaged” is an understatement. Both were sunk.
An interesting note: The engineering departments of both West Virginia and California were crewed by surviving engineers from USS Yorktown, after she was sunk at Midway.
those snipes with names starting with A through M went to West Virginia, those with names starting with N through Z went to California. My dad went to West Virginia.
Kind of like when I went through Mech fundamentals
at Memphis in 1965.
One day the instructors came in and said everbody
on the left side of the room is a hydraulics man
and every body on the right side is a metal smith.
USMC nothing like it.