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The Iowa-Class Battleships Have A Message for the U.S. Navy
Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were built as fast battleships to escort carrier task forces and overmatch enemy ...
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‘Armor Is No Force Field’: The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-Class Battleships Will Never Make A Comeback
After a day aboard USS Iowa, it’s easy to feel the pull of nostalgia—and the argument that a modernized Iowa-class could ...
American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other ...
Kelly Sullivan, right, a member of the USS Iowa commissioning committee and her father Jim Sullivan, center, pose with U.S. Army veteran Bill Keane of Waterloo at a watch part for the commissioning of ...
It is rumored Capt. John L. McCrea spewed his coffee out on the bridge of the USS Iowa when one of his officers delivered some orders from Washington, D.C. “A bathtub? Aboard a battleship,” McCrea may ...
ALL RIGHT, ETHAN, THANK YOU. AS WE GET CLOSER TO JULY, THAT MEANS WE’RE CLOSE TO JULY FOURTH. IT’S HAPPENING THIS THURSDAY. FIREWORKS ARE LEGAL HERE IN IOWA, BUT USING THEM IS ILLEGAL IN MOST CITIES.
WATERLOO — Kelly Sullivan remembers another cold April day 28 years ago. On a Staten Island pier in New York harbor, she helped commission the Navy destroyer USS The Sullivans, hull number DDG-68, ...
The USS Iowa submarine on sea trials in November 2024. (Photo courtesy of the U.S.S. Iowa Commissioning Committee) WATERLOO — Watch parties are being held around the state the first weekend in April — ...
Scores of Los Angeles-area 11th-graders visited the USS Battleship Iowa, in San Pedro, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, to learn about the life of a historic U.S. Navy vice admiral, and listen to military and ...
NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Iowa 36th Commemoration Ceremony will be held at Naval Station Norfolk on Saturday. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony will remember and honor the 47 sailors who lost their lives after a ...
Summary: The USS New Jersey (BB-62), a former United States Navy Iowa-class battleship from World War II, will return to its home in Camden, New Jersey, after spending the spring in drydock at the ...
Kelly Sullivan, right, a member of the USS Iowa commissioning committee and her father Jim Sullivan, center, pose with U.S. Army veteran Bill Keane of Waterloo at a watch part for the commissioning of ...
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