Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who delivered or “ferried” planes all over the country from the manufacturer to be loaded on to aircraft carriers, or ...

Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who delivered or “ferried” planes all over the country from the manufacturer to be loaded on to aircraft carriers, or ...

A look back in history reveals how U.S. battleships played a key role in accommodating the long-range weapon system known as ...

Reactivating or building new Iowa-class battleships for the US Navy is an impractical notion. These World War II-era giants, ...

The Montana-class, planned as the US Navy’s ultimate battleships and successors to the Iowa class, were authorized in the ...

Alshouse, a resident of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, was a Navy pilot who delivered or “ferried” planes all over the country from the manufacturer to be loaded on to aircraft carriers, or ...

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 ...

CAMDEN - Gun barrels manufactured and fired during World War II returned ahead of schedule ... They were removed for replacement from the Iowa-class battleship New Jersey, BB-62, after her ...

There were four Iowa class battleships, and the battleships were the last to be made and deployed. The ships saw action in World War II and were retired after the first Gulf War in 1991 ...

Sailors aboard the Virginia-class fast attack submarine Iowa ... to be named after the state since the famed World War II-era battleship Iowa (BB-61). “In this coming year, this crew of proud ...

The third and most famous, the lead ship of the Iowa-class battleships, served during World War II, fighting extensively in the Pacific Theater, and the Korean War, before being decommissioned in ...

and follows in the steps of two battleships that saw service in the World Wars and Korea. The last Iowa was BB-61, the lead hull in the four-ship World War II Iowa-class. Present at the event ...