On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 ...

The USS Missouri (BB-63), one of the four legendary Iowa-class battleships, is an icon of American naval might. -Many experts ...

Lloyd Glick, a Huntington Beach resident and WWII veteran, celebrated his 100th birthday aboard the Battleship Iowa in San Pedro on Saturday, Dec. 30.

USS New Orleans rejoins fleet after record-breaking repair job Her bow shot away in a battle with the Japanese in the ...

The World War II-era USS Kentucky was the deadliest large battleship ever that didn't actually exist because, although it was intended to be the last Iowa-class battleship ever constructed, the ...

The grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and three WWII veterans gathered aboard the Battleship USS Iowa on Saturday, Dec. 7, to commemorate the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor ...

The USS Iowa (SSN 797) — the Navy’s first submarine to be named after the U.S. state — was commissioned in a ceremony on Saturday at Naval Submarine Base New London in Connecticut.

Once the pride of the U.S. Navy, its four battleships are now mothballed museum attractions. But if needed, could these ...

Its slogan is actually derived from another Iowa namesake, the USS Iowa battleship that saw action during World War II and Korea. Two thousand people are expected to be in attendance at Saturday ...

The USS Iowa has served the U.S. in its darkest hours. Now, she faces a new set of challenges: combatting the brutal passage of time.

USS Iowa played a central role in every major U.S. conflict from World War II through the Gulf War in 1991. It is renowned for its speed, firepower, and advanced design, The Iowa Class ships were ...