Iowa class battleship

The first Iowa class battleship(BB61-66)was completed in late 1943 during ww2 and almost immediately sent into the pacific to fight the japanese.After the war they were placed in reserve and reactivated again during the Korean,Vietnam and Gulf wars and finaly decommisioned after a total service length of fifty years!Two are presarved as memorials while the other two are scheduled to be scraped.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_class_battleship


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