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These are the last remaining US battleships, now serving as floating museums after modern warfare...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe battleship USS Wisconsin fires one of its Mark 7 16-inch guns at an Iraqi shore target during...
What to know about the USS Iowa, the first Navy submarine named after the Hawkeye State
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe USS Iowa, set to be christened June 17, is a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine. Here's...
What the battleship means for Camden, and how it ended up here
Courier Post via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe USS New Jersey wasn't always meant to call Camden home, but just like the battleship itself,...
Crew visits to namesake state ramp up as USS Iowa attack submarine nears christening
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSoon, the USS Iowa won't just be a piece of history. Any Iowan who has toured the state Capitol is...
Ceremony marks 35th anniversary of deadly explosion of USS Iowa
WAVY via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoNORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — It has been 35 years since the explosion on the then-Norfolk-based USS Iowa...
A first-of-its-kind bomber test 20 years before World War II spelled the beginning of the end of the...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUS sailors watch bombs fall around captured German cruiser Frankfurt during a test off the Virginia...
Big Grove collaborates with a Connecticut brewery on a beer dedicated to the USS Iowa
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 11 months agoGroton, Connecticut, is the submarine capital of the world, home to Naval Submarine Base New London...
120-ton battleship gun barrel from WWII will get second life in Virginia Beach
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA battleship gun barrel used by the Navy in World War II that seemed destined for the scrapyard will soon get a second life. Coast Defense Study Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ...
Former Iowa Senate leader honored with inaugural award for USS Iowa conservation efforts
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFormer 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 ...
On This Day, April 19: Police arrest Boston Marathon bomber, brother killed
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoPolice surround a house and a boat where suspected bomber of the Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,...