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

The USS Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class battleship, ordered in 1940, with its keel laid in late 1942. -However, the ...

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 ...

WAS BEHIND THAT NETWORK SHUTDOWN. THIS IS COMING FROM MY FRIENDS ON THE BOARD AND THE CREW WHO FOUGHT THESE FIGHTS FOR A DECADE TO GET THE SHIP TO GET IT OPENED AS A MUSEUM. AND NOW TO CONTINUE WITH ...

USS New Jersey will soon get a big upgrade: This March, the USS New Jersey will once again be on the move following nearly three decades of museum duty. However, the mighty Iowa-class battleship will ...

Vietnam was mostly a ground war. American and South Vietnamese grunts fought it out against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in the jungles and rice paddies of South Vietnam. There was also secret ...

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 ...

ALL RIGHT, ETHAN, THANK YOU. AS WE GET CLOSER TO JULY, THAT MEANS WE’RE CLOSE TO JULY FOURTH. IT’S HAPPENING THIS THURSDAY. FIREWORKS ARE LEGAL HERE IN IOWA, BUT USING THEM IS ILLEGAL IN MOST CITIES.

SAN PEDRO, Calif. (KABC) -- A special service on the USS Iowa marked the 30th anniversary of the tragic accident that killed 47 sailors on April 19, 1989. The Number Two gun turret explosion was one ...

The USS Iowa submarine on sea trials in November 2024. (Photo courtesy of the U.S.S. Iowa Commissioning Committee) WATERLOO — Watch parties are being held around the state the first weekend in April — ...