So, in my extended ramblings about U.S. Navy battleships of WWII, I stated that New York and Texas were the oldest. That was incorrect. The next-older battleships were Wyoming (BB-32) and Arkansas (BB-33) of the Wyoming class. They were slow, and they were armed with 6 twin turrets containing 12" guns. Despite modernizations in the mid-1920s, they trailed the fleet in terms of speed, armor, and armament. In accordance with the 1930 London Naval Treaty, Wyoming was demilitarized and converted into a gunnery training ship. Arkansas soldiered on through World War II--serving in the Atlantic until Jan 1945, escorting convoys, as she was unsuited to face Japanese battleships--with the only significant changes being reductions of her secondary 5" guns and additions to her anti-aircraft batteries. In the final months of the war, she served in the Pacific, providing naval gunfire support to amphibious operations such as the invasion of Okinawa.