Quote Originally Posted by Loy Hamilton View Post
The USS Washington was the only US battleship to sink another battleship in battle during WWII. Her Captain was awarded the Navy Cross for that action. The Washington did not suffer any KIA in that action. That Jap battleship now resides at the bottom of IronBottom Sound.
Washington was certainly the only US battleship to single-handedly reduce another capital ship to sinking condition; IIRC Kirishima was scuttled after the crew was evacuated.

However, in Surigao Strait, 25 October 1944, West Virginia, Tennessee, and California smashed Yamashiro to wreckage burning end to end. Perhaps the destroyer torpedoes finished the job, but after the hammering by the old ladies of Oldendorf's battle line Yamashiro was going nowhere but down.