Posted by Dean on October 24, 2018 at 06:06:59 from (68.39.250.30):
The last battleship engagement in world history occurred as part of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf 74 years ago, October 24, 1944.
The doomed Japanese force steaming up the Surigao Strait failed to detect Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf's battle line of old WWI battleships, and, as a result, Oldendorf achieved the holy grail of naval surface engagements, crossing the T of the enemy. By crossing the T, Oldendorf's ships could fire full broadsides upon the enemy while the Japanese, even if they had detected the US ships, could fire only with their forward facing guns. Nishimura's force had no chance and ceased to exist within minutes.
Well back in Oldendorf's battle line, the USS Mississippi, equipped with older fire control radar, needed more time to compute a firing solution than other ships in the line. As a result, she fired a single, 12 gun salvo of her 14" guns moments after the cease fire had been issued because there were no more targets on the radar. Her salvo probably landed in the water where a Japanese ship had once been.
Though no one realized it at the time, the Mississippi's salvo proved to be the last salvo fired in action by one battleship upon another.
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