Wallace, wife of Vice President Wallace, and commissioned 22 February 1943, Capt. The USS Iowa was laid down at New York Navy Yard, 27 June 1940 launched 27 August 1942 sponsored by Mrs. The two photos above were taken by Andreas Wigger and show the IOWA during a gun fire demonstration off the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea in October 1985. IOWA is still able to deploy to Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in mid-year. The storm also damages the shaft and requires USS IOWA to return to the United States for overhaul at Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco.Īn explosion of undetermined cause rips through IOWA’s Number Two sixteen-inch gun turret killing 47 crewmen.
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