Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 ...

Once the pride of the U.S. Navy, its four battleships are now mothballed museum attractions. But if needed, could these decommissioned behemoths be reactivated?

The USS Iowa was the lead ship of the last fleet of battleships built by the U.S. Navy, which battled at sea during World War II and the Korean War and was the site of a turret explosion that ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Illinois (BB-65), the fifth Iowa-class battleship, was laid down during World War II but never completed. Initially intended as a Montana-class battleship, the ...

The US Navy’s four Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were reactivated from reserve to play a crucial role in the Korean War, primarily providing devastating naval ...

The USS Iowa, the last great battleship from World War II to be mothballed by the Navy, holds a special place in military lore. It helped the U.S. military win in the Pacific after the Japanese attack ...

Lloyd Glick, a Navy petty officer that served as a bugler during WWII, celebrated his 100th birthday aboard the historic Battleship USS IOWA on Saturday Dec. 30, 2023.

Video above: Guide to which central Iowa cities allow consumer fireworks. Photos from the event show fireworks bursting in the air as the 45,000-ton ship sits in its permanent spot as a museum in ...

The whopping 45,000-ton World War II-era battleship will be dry-docked once again in the same berth where she was constructed back in the early 1940s. ... USS Iowa was the first to launch in 1942, ...

Gayle Anderson reports what KTLA has been following since July 2024, the unique project of replacing the distressed deck of the historic Battleship Iowa, also known as the Battleship of Presidents ...

Lloyd Glick, a Huntington Beach resident and WWII veteran, celebrated his 100th birthday aboard the Battleship Iowa in San Pedro on Saturday, Dec. 30.