So you make baseless statements, offering no proof to back them up, and then tell us to do our own research? Sorry my friend, but the burden of proof lies solely with you. Again, no one is debating that battleships provided gunfire support. What is being debated here is was that ability enough to keep them around after WW2, even after that ability was matched by smaller ships and surpassed by CAS.

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