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The US Navy’s four Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were reactivated from reserve to play a ...
NORFOLK, Va. — USS Iowa veterans gathered at Naval Station Norfolk Saturday morning for their annual tribute to their fallen fellow sailors on the battleship. One by one, the names of the 47 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The official crest of the new U.S.S. Iowa submarine (SSN-797) includes a likeness of its predecessor namesake battleship, the U.S.S. Iowa BB-61, as well as a shamrock in honor of Waterloo’s five ...
The official crest of the new U.S.S. Iowa submarine (SSN-797) includes a likeness of its predecessor namesake battleship, the U.S.S. Iowa BB-61, as well as a shamrock in honor of Waterloo’s five ...
The U.S. Navy welcomed a new USS Iowa into its service this weekend. The new nuclear submarine, SSN-797, was commissioned on Saturday, April 5, not in Iowa, but at the Naval Submarine Base New ...
The USS Iowa, which is now a museum in Los Angeles, is the city’s fourth most visited museum, according to their website. “As you study the Iowa class battleships, you learn how unique they ...
The USS Iowa (SSN 797) — the Navy’s first submarine to be named after the U.S. state — was commissioned in a ceremony on Saturday at Naval Submarine Base New London in Connecticut.
The USS Iowa submarine is officially serving the U.S. Navy. By Lacey Reeves Published: Apr. 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM PDT ...
The battleship USS Iowa BB-4 saw service in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the USS Iowa BB-61, “The Gray Ghost,” served in World War II, Korea and in the 1980s through 1990 patrolling ...
The USS Iowa has anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, a large aperture bow sonar array, and electronic sensors for tracking movements or navigating minefields, the ceremony booklet states.