Work on the Iowas was started in 1940. New Jersey, which is historically regarded as the last Iowa class battleship, because it was completed before
Wisconsin. The Montana class was never started. Aside from an episode of
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, called Sink the Montana, no battleship, or
submarine, except for one in the 1989 movie The Abyss, was named after Montana.
As opposed to the Plan Z vessels, most of which were never laid down?
Planned fleet compared to planned fleet is apples vs. apples.
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