• @PugJesusOPM
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    141 day ago

    The Japanese Navy was still, as a matter of technicality, extant by the time of Japan’s surrender, but it was not in any sort of fighting condition - and certainly not against the 1945 US Navy, which was a grotesque juggernaut at that point. Only one Japanese capital ship remained floating by the end of the war, and many of the smaller ships were too damaged for combat duty.