The legendary Iowa-class battleships of WWII were marvels of naval engineering, requiring over three million man-hours and 71 ...

The Iowa-class battleships were the pinnacle of American naval engineering and firepower. Conceived in the late 1930s and built during World War II, these ships were designed to be the fastest and ...

Notably, the Mighty Mo was the final battleship to be commissioned by the U.S. Navy. During its tenure in WWII, the Iowa-class battleship was assigned to the Pacific Theatre, where it participated ...

You’ll spot it first from the Ben Franklin Bridge: a massive gray beast on the Camden banks. The USS New Jersey sailed four ...

In February 1944, Iowa joined Operation Hailstone – the attack on Japan’s fortress harbor at Truk Lagoon. While carriers ...

Over the years warships became larger and heavier, a trend that culminated in the 1940s with the massive Bismarck, Iowa, and Yamato class battleships ... that lead the US Navy to embark on ...

The Sullivans weren’t the only set of brothers from Iowa who served their country during World War II. There were eight brothers and a father from Odebolt who enlisted in the Navy as well.

Yet candor comes hard for institutions like, say, the United States Navy. Exhibit A ... were commonplace in battleship gunnery spaces—including other Iowa gun barrels, and in turrets on board ...

It is renowned for its speed, firepower, and advanced design, The Iowa Class ships were considered the most powerful of their time. Today, the USS Iowa is preserved as a museum, honoring the ...