…there seems to have been less problems with barrel wear than I recalled. This varied from nation to nation (with accounts of the Italian 381mm guns indicating that they could not fire half their magazines without suffering serious wear and tear to their guns), but American battleships seem to have been able to keep up sustained fire for the duration of an operation – but the frequency of yard times, always in the aftermath of amphibious operations, indicated that they received replacement barrels at least between operations.