At a meeting with Minoru Genda, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida thought about the super battleships Musashi and Yamato while discussing the use of land based bombers for naval support. Although he felt great pride at them being the most powerful battleships afloat, he had to admit that they were pretty much useless in a modern war with aircraft carriers. He grimly wished that the steel and labor that built them had gone into carriers instead.