Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - "Tennessee" yakasungwa muBattleship Row apo vaJapan vakarwisa Pearl Harbor pana 7 December 1941, izvo zvakaunza United States muHondo yeNyika II. Haana kukuvadzwa zvakakomba, uye pashure pokugadziriswa iye akashanda kure West Coast of the US muna 1942. Muna 1943, "Tennessee" nedzimwe ngarava dzehondo dzekare dzakavakwazve kuti dzivagadzirire kushanda muPacific War uye munaJune-Nyamavhuvhu, akatora chikamu muAleutian Islands Campaign, achipa rutsigiro rwekupfura kune mauto anorwira kutora zvitsuwa. Hondo yeGilbert neMarshall Islands yakatevera kubva muna November 1943 kusvika muna February 1944, kusanganisira Hondo dzeTarawa, Kwajalein, uye Eniwetok
. Muna March, iye akapinda Kavieng kutsausa mauto eJapan panguva yekumhara paEmirou, uye kubva munaJune kusvika munaSeptember, akarwa muMariana nePalau Islands mushandirapamwe, achibhomba mauto eJapan panguva yehondo dzeSaipan, Guam, Tinian, uye Anguar.