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The actionable finding from that disgraceful episode is this: never dissemble, even to defend a venerable institution.
NORFOLK, Va. — USS Iowa veterans gathered at Naval Station Norfolk Saturday morning for their annual tribute to their fallen fellow sailors on the battleship. One by one, the names of the 47 sailors ...
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 ...
A ceremony to mark 36 years since a gun turret explosion killed 47 Sailors onboard USS Iowa is expected to take place on Saturday.
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his ...
The new submarine USS Iowa is tied to a pier before its commissioning ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, last week. Mike Larson, a Navy veteran from Fort Dodge, attended the commissioning ceremony ...
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 ...
The idea of reactivating the Iowa-class battleships—notably the USS Iowa, USS New Jersey, USS Missouri, and USS Wisconsin—is ...
Nearly three dozen people crowded into Oskaloosa's American Legion Post 34 Saturday morning to watch as the U.S. Navy's commissioned its newest submarine, the USS Iowa. The watch party was one of 27 ...
It gained the nickname the “Gray Ghost,” and is currently in the maritime museum. “Its name was the Gray Ghost because it was so silent, careful, cautious, and deadly,” Miller-Meeks said. “[The USS ...