Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: "Tennessee" nọ n'ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri mgbe ndị Japan wakporo Pearl Harbor na 7 Disemba 1941, nke mere ka United States banye Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ. O merụghị ya ahụ nke ukwuu, ma mgbe a rụzigharịrị ya, ọ rụrụ ọrụ n'ụsọ oké osimiri ọdịda anyanwụ nke US na 1942. Na 1943, "Tennessee" na ọtụtụ n'ime ndị okenye battleships na-ọma wughachi iji kwadebe ha maka arụmọrụ na Pacific War na June-August, ọ wee akụkụ ke Aleutian Islands Mgbasa Ozi, na-enye egbe egbe nkwado ka agha na-alụ ọgụ iji weghachi agwaetiti. Agha Gilbert na Marshall Islands sochiri site na Nọvemba 1943 ruo Febụwarị 1944, gụnyere Agha Tarawa, Kwajalein, na
Eniwetok. N'ọnwa Machị, ọ wakporo Kavieng iji dọpụ uche ndị agha Japan mgbe ha na-arịgo Emirau, ma site na June ruo Septemba, ọ lụrụ ọgụ na Mariana na Palau Islands, na-atụ bọmbụ ndị agha Japan n'oge agha nke Saipan, Guam, Tinian, na Anguar.