The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...

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 ...

Summary: The Iowa-class battleships, designed during the Interwar Years, symbolize a bygone era of U.S. naval dominance and strategic foresight, tailored specifically to combat the then-imminent ...

By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. What’s old is new again. The possibility of resurrecting battleships as a potent symbol of naval power is back as a popular topic of discussion in […] ...

The famed Iowa-class battleship, known for its imposing firepower, was almost upgraded to feature more firepower, indeed, the most firepower. During the 1950s, while the Cold War raged, the U.S. Navy ...

Former Republican Iowa Senate leader Jeff Lamberti was presented with the inaugural USS Iowa Lamberti Service Award at the Iowa Capitol Thursday for his conservation and restoration efforts of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Gayle Anderson reports KTLA has been ...

LONDON — The battleship Iowa is on her last voyage. And somewhere up in the North Atlantic she is "fighting" her last battle participating in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization maneuver, Operation ...

It is rumored Capt. John L. McCrea spewed his coffee out on the bridge of the USS Iowa when one of his officers delivered some orders from Washington, D.C. “A bathtub? Aboard a battleship,” McCrea may ...

Dozens of World War II ships now live on as floating museums — a reminder of the nation’s sacrifice and tenacity during a time of turmoil. But salvaging and preserving the monuments for posterity is ...

Gayle Anderson reports what KTLA has been following since July 2024, the unique project of replacing the distressed deck of the historic Battleship Iowa, also known as the Battleship of Presidents, ...