Ceremony with barbecue, Iowa State Fair food set as USS Iowa submarine enters Navy service
A commissioning ceremony will be held at a Connecticut shipyard as the first submarine to bear the USS Iowa name becomes an ...
It’s ‘Anchors Aweigh’ for new USS Iowa
Watch parties are being held around the state the first weekend in April — and not just for the Final Four of the NCAA men’s ...
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The Battleship USS Illinois Is a Forgotten Footnote in History
Even though the Illinois no longer exists, a small fragment of it remains to remind us of what might have been. America’s ...
Oldest Pearl Harbor survivor honored in Barnstable on 105th birthday
Freeman K. Johnson was expecting only a cake for his 105th birthday celebration Wednesday in Hyannis. But others had a ...
Last Iowa veteran to serve in Vietnam also served in Iraq
When Ron “Curly” Albrecht graduated from high school at Waverly-Shell Rock in the early ’70s he did not want to stay on the ...
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“Battleship Cove” Is Home To America’s Greatest Museum Ships
All four Iowa-class battlewagons were also maintained ... The museum is also home to the Balao-class submarine USS Becuna (SS-319), which was credited with sinking two Japanese tankers during ...
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AMM 3/C USNR Owen Charles Roberts
Roberts’s remains were never recovered. He was missing in action as of Nov. 24, 1943 and later declared killed in action on ...
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WWII ship where five brave Sullivan brothers died discovered on St. Patrick's Day
An expedition crew led by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen found the famous USS Juneau, where the five Sullivan brothers perished during WWII, 4,200 meters below the surface on the floor of the ...