But the Peashooter could, and did, still put up a fight. She was first “blooded” in combat during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As noted by Robert Guttman in an August 2017 article for HistoryNet: ...

Rex Ryan called Mac Jones “peashooter.” Getty Images “You took a couple L’s (losses) to New England, but you also gave them a couple L’s, so it’s a little bitterness from your days ...