The numbers at the end of WW II are even more lopsided if you look at the number of commissioned vessels in the US Navy on VJ day 1945: 7601. [0] I have read el

The numbers at the end of WW II are even more lopsided if you look at the number of commissioned vessels in the US Navy on VJ day 1945: 7601. [0] I have read elsewhere this included 12 carrier battle groups of which one could deploy about the same firepower as the British Royal Navy. By contrast the US Navy now claims about 280 vessels. [1] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_World_War_II https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_World_War_I... [1] https://www.navy.com/life-in-the-navy/vessels https://www.navy.com/life-in-the-navy/vessels