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 ...

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

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 ...

Courier Regional Editor Doug Hines, Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa President and CEO Kaye Englin, Volunteer Center of ...

Marine Corporal Robert J. Powers   Buy Photo During World War II, countless young men answered the call to serve ...

Over the past two Fridays, I have shared my friends’ perfect plan for visiting what most people have on their bucket list: a ...

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

Eighty-three years after its loss in WWII, the USS New Orleans bow has been located using sonar and underwater robots.

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

After 80 years, researchers located the bow of USS New Orleans torn off by a Japanese torpedo during a 1942 WWII naval battle ...

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