The USS Iowa will celebrate the Fourth of July with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ... "When I first got my orders in 1986, I had no idea what a BB was 'til I asked my 'A' school teacher, all he ...

The USS Iowa (SSN 797), a fast-attack submarine, hosted a change of command ceremony on Friday, June 6, at the Naval ...

Today is Veterans Day in the US, and we wanted to recognize the Ars readers and staff who've served by resurfacing former Navy man Sean Gallagher's trip to his old home, the USS Iowa. His piece ...

Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy’s largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with ...

Summary: The USS Iowa (BB-61), a historic centerpiece of the Pacific ... a drone as an aerial spotter for a battleship’s guns. On July 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy ...

The most recent was the former USS IOWA (BB-61). That was a battleship that served for three different times in the 40’s, 50’s and 80’s and is now a museum in Los Angeles.

Also attending will be about 65 to 70 Navy veterans who served on the battleship USS Iowa, hull number BB-61, which served from World War II through the 1980s and is now a museum ship at the Port ...

The USS Iowa BB 61, a highly decorated WWII-era battleship (1943-1990), saw action in World War II, the Korean War and Gulf War. The first USS Iowa BB 4 (1897-1919) saw action in the Spanish ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – The newly restored USS Iowa (BB 61) Battleship Barrel #270 will makes its way from Portsmouth to Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Fort Story Monday. According to a ...

Sailors attached to the fast-attack submarine USS Iowa (SSN-797 ... 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.

The class consists of four completed ships: USS Iowa (BB-61), USS New Jersey (BB-62), USS Missouri (BB-63), and USS Wisconsin (BB-64). Two additional ships, USS Illinois (BB-65) and USS Kentucky ...