It's been 30 years since an explosion inside the number two gun turret on the USS Iowa killed 47 American sailors, but for Mike Carr, it still feels like yesterday. "I knew all 47 guys inside ...

More than 150 attendees, including members of the USS Iowa (BB-61) Veterans Association, families, and friends of the “Iowa ...

LOS ANGELES — The USS Iowa, which ferried President ... an explosion within a gun turret on board the ship killed 47 sailors. The Iowa was decommissioned in 1990 and later was kept in a naval ...

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 gun turret ...

Exhibit A: the Navy’s colossal fumbling of the USS Iowa turret explosion thirty-six years ago. So glaring were the problems with the post-explosion inquiry that Congress commissioned agencies ...

The USS Iowa ... of the main turret during a drill in 1989, during which 47 crewmen were killed. Two separate major investigations ensued, with conflicting results. The Iowa was decommissioned ...

Called to testify about what went wrong aboard the USS Iowa April 19 ... 10 others were the only survivors from the lowest level of turret No. 2 when explosions and a fireball ripped through ...

Monday marks 32 years since the explosion on the USS Iowa battleship (BB-61), which remains one of the Navy’s worst losses of life during peacetime. 47 sailors were killed when a gun turret on ...

Summary: The USS Iowa ... While Iowa didn’t take part in combat operations following her reactivation, On April 19, 1989, a fire in her second sixteen-inch gun turret killed 47 crewmen.

Veterans and military families gathered at Naval Station Norfolk Tuesday to honor the Iowa 47. Thirty-three years ago, on April 19, 1989, a gun turret on the Norfolk-based battleship USS Iowa ...