We know that at least one battleship was in the Twilight War as its in the Gateway to the Spanish Main
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The war did have some effects on Grenada. The tourists have
stopped coming, the freighters have stopped coming, and the
tankers have stopped coming. There was a brief flurry of military
activity early in the war as U.S. military aircraft bound for the
fighting in Africa and the Mideast made stopovers en route, and
a U.S. Navy battle group built around the USS New Jersey met
and sent to the bottom a Soviet battle cruiser that had been rampaging
in the South Atlantic sea lanes. The citizens of St.
George's had a front row seat to one of the last gun duels between
rival warships in the 20th century
Thus we know by canon that that the USS New Jersey was in the war for sure - and if New Jersey was in the war, then Missouri and Wisconsin were in for sure and most likely Iowa as well
As for shells - there was a lot of 16 gun ammo still available for the battleships as well as 5 inch for their secondary guns - so ammo isnt a problem
The real thing to look at would be barrel life - you can only shoot so many shells thru the gun barrels before they need to be replaced - and even if there are replacements available (there were as far as I know but not sure where they were) you need an active Navy Yard that can take battlehships to do the replacement
And they would have been of huge use - in fact you can tell they must have been used elsewhere because they arent in Iran - i.e. Korea, Europe, etc.. took first priority so Iran only got the Des Moines class instead of a battleship
As for where - Scandanavia of course, off of Italy, possibly in the Aegean against the Greeks, the Baltic and Korea of course
and their engines can burn bunker oil - you dont need refined products for their engines - you could take it straight out of a oil well and a BB would run on it
as for other gun ships - possibly Massachusetts and Arkansas - they used parts from them for the Iowas so they might have been able to get one of them going as well -
as for other battleships - how about Japan? Mikasa was preserved in working condition including her engines and guns - all she needs is ammo - and her hull is in good order as well
there are other WWII gun ships left as museums as well
HMAS Belfast was in the UK in London - possibly the Brits may have moved her to Portsmouth
USS Little Rock is in Buffalo along with USS The Sullivans (DD)
Several WWII era DD's are still active in that time period, mostly with Latin American navies (Mexico has at least one Gearing DD still in commission today)
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