During a routine test aboard the USS Iowa, Turret Two was preparing to fire its massive 16-inch guns. While the right and left guns were loaded, an issue arose with the center gun, prompting a ...

Gunner`s Mate Kendall Truitt was in the belly of the USS Iowa`s gun turret No. 2 when he heard an explosion that sounded louder than gunfire. Truitt and 10 other men in his compartment frantically … ...

Twenty-five years ago Saturday, an explosion in the No. 2 gun turret aboard the USS Iowa – which is now a floating museum in San Pedro – killed 47 sailors and resulted in an investigation that ...

The #2 turret of the USS Iowa (BB-61) exploded on April 19, 1989, killing 47 members of the turret crew. (U.S. Navy/ LT. Thomas Jarrell) ...

On the morning of April 19, 1989 — 35 years ago today — a horrific explosion and fire ripped through the No. 2 gun turret of the Norfolk-based battleship USS Iowa.

USS Iowa's Guns Are Now For Show The battleship ferried Franklin Roosevelt to a historic meeting during World War II and parried Russians in the Cold War. ... Turret 1. It's 67 feet long, brother.

Three weeks before he and 46 others died there, a sailor told his family that he hated to return to duty in the USS Iowa’s No. 2 turret because “they have modified it into a deathtrap ...

A LETTER writer’s question was: Could the 16-inch naval rifle on the USS Iowa have been fired before the breech was closed as in the case he cited of an Army 8-inch powder bag weapon? The answer ...

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 ...

Exhibit A: the Navy’s colossal fumbling of the USS Iowa turret explosion thirty-six years ago. ... no one will ever be able to say for sure what happened on board USS Iowa on April 19, 1989.

The 9:30 a.m. ceremony will remember and honor the 47 sailors who lost their lives after a gun turret exploded on the USS Iowa during a firing exercise on April 19, 1989.