As much as it pains Nagato, Sakawa and Prinz Eugen, it must not be forgotten that most of the ships nuked were the ships of the Americans, the victors of the war.

Welp it seems there are 2 notes in Saratoga's line, well feel free to pick which is better...

Also I feel sorry for her. Actually all of them, that despite that they serve to fight for their country is they end up becoming a test dummy for a nuclear bomb.

Thats post-war dumping for you.

As sad as it was, at least they served SOME purpose instead of outright being dumped into the ocean.

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USS Independence would spend a few years at Hunter's Point while they studied the effects of the radiation on the ship (and likely caused some sort of lawsuit by the time that land because houses). They sank her later of the coast of California.

Several other ships "survived" being nuked twice, and were sunk later on as targets or because there was no need for them.

Sara is still there. Her superstructure got blown off, but she's is there to be dived on.

ithekro said:

Sara is still there. Her superstructure got blown off, but she's is there to be dived on.

the picture in my head are a bunch of fairies scuba diving around her skeleton

and World of Warships gives us USS Arkansas as a reward for CBT...

Kidney said:

It's sad because everything is personified, but I think this single image is funny.

Well... the only thing that I find it's funny is the way they dropped that Nuke...
And at least Nagato was not the only one that witnessed the whole Pacific War, USS Independence was there with her too.

conongvang said:

and World of Warships gives us USS Arkansas as a reward for CBT...

Well... the only thing that I find it's funny is the way they dropped that Nuke...
And at least Nagato was not the only one that witnessed the whole Pacific War, USS Independence was there with her too.

There was a comic on her when Nagato said Independence had given her a hard time and from then I have secretly kept that pairing in my heart

Krugger said:

There was a comic on her when Nagato said Independence had given her a hard time and from then I have secretly kept that pairing in my heart

Do you remember where this comic is located?

biodude711 said:
Do you remember where this comic is located?

You're a Liar, Nagato-san

FJH said:

You're a Liar, Nagato-san

Thats the one and Scholastica's comment on the last page just sealed it

"..You shitty president" Akebono would be proud to hear that

Well, on the bright side, the US found out that nuclear weapons are not good at attacking ships in port.

the amount of raw steels and another materials gotten from those ships might actually very helpful to restore USA market after war

but no, let's use 10++ capital ships for a test-bombing that actually require more resources because lulz we won teh war

Strela said:

the amount of raw steels and another materials gotten from those ships might actually very helpful to restore USA market after war

but no, let's use 10++ capital ships for a test-bombing that actually require more resources because lulz we won teh war

I don't think you understand just how many natural resources the US had access to at the time. Let me put it this way, I regularly play Hearts Of Iron III one of the most realistic grand strategy wargames set in World War II. Resources are a very important part of how you conduct your war effort but the US never has to worry about this because they can pretty much spend an entire campaign maxed out on resources without even thinking about it.

Strela said:

the amount of raw steels and another materials gotten from those ships might actually very helpful to restore USA market after war

but no, let's use 10++ capital ships for a test-bombing that actually require more resources because lulz we won teh war

That's not how it works.
In late 1945 the US was pulling in roughly a million tons* of various material (to include - but not limited to - iron, aluminum, nickel, tin, various carbides, tungsten, silver, and gold)... a month.
~400,000 l.ts of ship steel is a drop in the bucket in comparison, especially when considering that most of it could not be used in most of the reconstruction efforts as it didn't meet standard.
So, yeah, the US scrapping ships (at the time) only brought down the cost of disposable razors, not much else.

There were also only 7 capital ships involved, including Nagato.

*Number according to memory, subject to error. Some sources I recall claimed 7 million ts/month.

MMaestro said:

Thats post-war dumping for you.

As sad as it was, at least they served SOME purpose instead of outright being dumped into the ocean.

At least they got better Treatment then the PT Boats.
Served The best they could Ran dangerous Hit and run missions Saved airmen... and then got lined up on a beach and turned into a bonfire.
Out of the 531 original boats only 13 are still around.

Eboreg said:

I don't think you understand just how many natural resources the US had access to at the time. Let me put it this way, I regularly play Hearts Of Iron III one of the most realistic grand strategy wargames set in World War II. Resources are a very important part of how you conduct your war effort but the US never has to worry about this because they can pretty much spend an entire campaign maxed out on resources without even thinking about it.

Just to follow up on this...

By the end of the war, the US was the majority of global GDP. Even at the start, it was about 40%, and by the end, all major competitors had most of their industry reduced to smoking ruins, while being on a continent removed from all other major adversaries kept the US mainland untouched by all but the most trivial attacks.

There's a reason America exploded to the forefront of global politics at that time.

Ironically, though, there's some disadvantage to not having to rebuild your infrastructure, as Europe's new industry was rebuilt modernized from the start, while America had a lot of industrial infrastructure that was built and rebuilt and rebuilt again, never quite capturing full efficiency because the floorplans weren't laid out for the jobs they were performing with modern equipment.

I lol'd even though I knew that I shouldn't have (this is a serious and somber topic after all).

Damn you, black comedy!

That moment when: All these newer, more advanced warships burst apart in this test, while Nevada survived Pearl Harbor, two nuclear detonations, newly created depth charges, being shot to all fuck by a pair of Iowas and a few other ships, before finally being sunk by an aerial torpedo strike. She landed upright three miles below the surface, flag tattered, but still there. Nevada was truly America incarnate.