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The USS Iowa, America's first 45,000-ton battleship, was commissioned in February 1943.(The Week)(Brief article)
The USS Iowa, America's first 45,000-ton battleship, was commissioned in February 1943. During World War II she helped take the Marshalls, the Carolines, the Marianas, and the Philippines, and was in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender. In the Korean War, she bombarded the eastern coast of North Korea. Congress wants to moor the Iowa, decommissioned in 1990, in California. Just not in San Francisco, whose supervisors, by an 8-3 vote, expressed their unwillingness to take it. Their disapproval of the Iraq War, and the Navy's policies on gays, formed the ostensible grounds of their ...
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