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The 9:30 a.m. ceremony will remember and honor the 47 sailors who lost their lives after a gun turret exploded on the USS ...
NORFOLK, Va. — USS Iowa veterans gathered at Naval Station Norfolk Saturday morning for their annual tribute to their fallen ...
The watch party was at the Grout Museum District’s Sullivan brothers Iowa Veterans Museum in Waterloo. On display in front of the veterans are replicas of two of the predecessor USS Iowa ships ...
Watching the young men and women sailors scramble aboard the new USS Iowa submarine as ship sponsor Christie Vilsack announced, "Board our boat and bring her to life!" I wondered if they ...
It was the culmination of a long process ... the battleship USS Iowa, BB-61, which served from World War II through 1990 and is now a museum in the Port of Los Angeles. One of the battleship ...
Sailors attached to the fast-attack submarine USS Iowa man their newly commissioned submarine during a ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, April 5, 2025. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Joshua Karsten.
The U.S. Navy welcomed a new USS Iowa into its service this weekend ... It’s currently part of a maritime museum. Adm. Daryl Caudle, head of the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Forces Command noted the ...
A ceremony to mark 36 years since a gun turret explosion killed 47 Sailors onboard USS Iowa is expected to take place on Saturday.
SSN-797 was commissioned as USS Iowa, the first Virginia-class submarine of the second Trump administration. It was described as “just the beginning” of a revitalisation of US naval shipbuilding by ...