 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 akapamba Kavieng kutsausa mauto eJapane panguva kumhara pamusoro Emirau, uye kubva June kusvikira September, iye akarwa ari Mariana uye Palau Islands mushandirapamwe, achirwisa mauto eJapane panguva Hondo Saipan, Guam, Tinian, uye Anguar. 