Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - "Tennessee" ya kasance a cikin Battleship Row lokacin da Jafananci suka kai hari kan Pearl Harbor a ranar 7 ga Disamba, 1941, wanda ya kawo Amurka cikin Yaƙin Duniya na II. Ba a lalace shi sosai ba, kuma bayan an gyara shi ya yi aiki a yammacin Amurka a 1942. A shekara ta 1943, "Tennessee" da kuma yawancin tsofaffin mayakan da aka sake gina su sosai don shirya su don ayyukan a cikin Yakin Pacific kuma a watan Yuni-Agusta, ta shiga cikin Kamfen na Aleutian Islands, yana ba da tallafin bindiga ga sojojin da ke yaƙi don dawo da tsibirin. Yaƙin Gilbert da Marshall Islands ya biyo baya daga Nuwamba 1943 zuwa Fabrairu 1944, gami da Yaƙe-yaƙe na Tarawa, Kwajalein, da Eniwetok
Ka yi haƙuri. A watan Maris, ta kai hari kan Kavieng don karkatar da hankalin sojojin Japan yayin saukowa a Emirau, kuma daga Yuni zuwa Satumba, ta yi yaƙi a cikin yakin Mariana da Palau Islands, ta harba sojojin Japan a lokacin Yaƙin Saipan, Guam, Tinian, da Anguar.