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The only active American battleships in World War II that are older than Kongo are Wyoming and Arkansas. Wyoming was a training ship for the war. Arkansas was convoy escort and shore bombardment duty in the Atlantic until the fall of Germany, then transfered to the Pacific in time for Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She was at Bikini Atoll with Nagato for the Atomic Bomb tests.
Both served with the British fleet in World War One...Sixth Battle Squadron.
USS Utah, USS Kearsarge, and USS Illinois was also active, but not as a battleship. Utah was a target ship tuned AA gunnery training ship. Kearsarge was a crane ship. Illinois was an armory ship. (USS Oregon was a museum ship until the war, then scap and storage barge)
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