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Would better torpedo preparation change Pearl Harbor losses?

A short counterfactual expects few additional battleship write-offs, with an incomplete qualification about the oldest Standards.

Question

If Japan had paid more attention to the torpedo lessons, how many more Standard battleships would have been written off?

Short answer

Not many more is the estimate, with an incomplete qualification about the earliest Standards.

Notes

The estimated increase in battleship write-offs is small. The earliest Standard battleships receive a brief qualification, but the explanation of the limiting factors is incomplete in the captions.