The Montana-class battleships were a series of five planned U.S. Navy battleships intended to succeed the Iowa-class ...

Built in the 1940s, the Iowa-class battleships were designed to be fast fleet battleships, capable of chasing down and engaging enemy battleships such as the famed Yamato class of the Imperial ...

The actionable finding from that disgraceful episode is this: never dissemble, even to defend a venerable institution.

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.