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USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
Fred P. Moosally (born 4 October 1944) is a former captain in the United States Navy.During his naval career, Moosally served in many different assignments, including commander of a destroyer and the battleship USS Iowa.
USS Iowa in World War II configuration and wearing Measure 32 Design 1B camouflage pattern, c. 1944. The Iowa -class battleships are 860 ft 0 in (262.13 m) long at the waterline and 887 ft 3 in (270.43 m) long overall with a beam of 108 ft 2 in (32.97 m).
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from April 20, 1989: Explosion aboard USS Iowa kills 47 sailors Historic front page from the Des Moines Register ...
All eight crew of Consolidated B-24E-25-CF Liberator, 41-29071, [85] of the 701st Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, Sioux City Army Air Base, Iowa, piloted by Jack D. Hodges, [121] are killed when the bomber crashes in a corn field four miles SW of Moville, Iowa.
After extensive repairs, Hughes rejoined the war on 4 June 1945. USS Anderson (DD-411) was participating in a diversionary bombardment of Wotje during the Marshall Islands campaign on 30 January 1944 when during the bombardment the ship was hit by a shell fired from a shore battery. The shell hit the Combat Information Center on board; killing ...
The bodies were so dismembered that state police could initially only identify five of the victims, although the sixth was later found a half mile away, stated a United Press report. [87] An Associated Press report identifies the crash site as at Calhoun, Louisiana, and states that the explosion on impact spread wreckage "over a square mile ...
The first Iowa-class ship was laid down in June 1940; in their World War II configuration, each of the Iowa-class battleships had a main battery of 16-inch (406 mm) guns that could hit targets nearly 20 statute miles (32 km) away with a variety of artillery shells designed for anti-ship or bombardment work. The secondary battery of 5-inch (127 ...