What You Need to Know: The 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun, featured on Iowa-class battleships, became one of the U.S. Navy's most powerful and iconic weapons. Designed initially for lighter rounds ...

Here’s what you need to know: Today you can see the USS Missouri during her close-up on-screen or docked at Pearl Harbor. The United States Navy retired its four Iowa-class battleships some ...

Post-war, many battleships were decommissioned, but the onset of the Korean War led to the reactivation of the Iowa-class battleships—USS Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Iowa. -These ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Wisconsin (BB-65), one of the formidable Iowa-class battleships, faced not just the enemy during World War II but also the wrath of nature.... What You Need to Know ...