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From what I understood, 5,25'' gun was actually quite good, though some preferred 4,5'' gun due to lighter shells and better traverse rates. Problems with guns were actually often problems with ships themselves, which in turn were mostly a consequence of British way-too-strict adherence to...

US and UK also had AA cruisers (Atlanta and Dido, respectively), though I don't know how good these were compared to battleships.

Because dedicated ground attack aircraft proved superior: cannons were much more accurate than bombs.

Bombers in general were massacred by fighters... be it dive bombers, torpedo bombers, medium bombers, heavy bombers... the best tactics was to send fighters in first and keep enemy fighters and AAA busy, or to sacrifice torpedo bombers so that dive bombers can set up their attack unimpeded (Midway).