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Never Finished: USS Illinois Is the U.S. Navy’s ‘Scrapped’ Iowa-class Battleship
The USS Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class battleship, ordered in 1940, with its keel laid in late 1942. -However, the ...
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The Navy’s Best Decision: $100,000,000 for an Iowa-Class Battleship
The Iowa-class embodied peak battleship power: fast, heavily armored, and devastating ashore. -Adjusted for inflation, they look “cheap” today—but only on paper. -Modern warfare renders big guns short ...
The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...
The USS Iowa was the first of the Iowa-class battleships that were the mightiest in the U.S. fleet in World War II. It was decommissioned in the 1950s, then recommissioned in 1982 to help counter an ...
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 ...
It's anchors aweigh today for the USS Iowa, nearly six years after construction began. The new Virginia class submarine officially commissioned at a ceremony in Groton, Connecticut. Among the speakers ...
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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