The Iowa-class battleship was a class of four battleships built for and used by the United States Navy during World War II, and the last to be built by the United States. Six were originally planned, but production on the last two was cancelled after the war ended.
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| - The Iowa-class battleship was a class of four battleships built for and used by the United States Navy during World War II, and the last to be built by the United States. Six were originally planned, but production on the last two was cancelled after the war ended.
- The Iowa-class battleships were a class of fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Four were completed; two more were laid down but canceled at war's end and scrapped. Like other third-generation American battleships, the Iowa class followed the design pattern set forth in the preceding North Carolina-class and South Dakota-class battleships, which emphasized speed and the secondary and anti-aircraft batteries. The Iowas were the longest battleships ever built, although others had wider beams and higher displacements.
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| - Concept artwork of what Kentucky may have looked like had she been completed as a guided missile battleship.
- A crewman operates the ship's throttle in the main engine room aboard New Jersey.
- Cutaway of a 16"/50 gun turret.
- Crewmen operate the electrical generators in the upper-level engine room aboard New Jersey.
- Gunfire-control radars aboard USS Iowa
- A close-up look at an Armored Box Launcher unit, this one aboard New Jersey
- fires a full broadside of nine 16-inch / 50-caliber and six 5-inch / 38-caliber guns during a target exercise.
- A Mk 141 Harpoon Missile Launcher aboard the German frigate Bremen
- An AN/SPS-498 ANZ radar system on a Royal Australian Navy frigate.
- Line drawings of the proposed aircraft carrier conversion for hulls BB-65 and BB-66. Plans to move forward with this conversion were ultimately dropped, and both hulls were eventually scrapped.
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| - A Quartet of grey colored cylindrical canisters positioned roughly in the center of the image, with the canisters pointed at angle with the base to the lower right. A clear space can be seen in the left third of the image.
- A multicolor cutaway of a 16in gun turret. Within the cutaway black lines point to various areas and objects of note, at the other end of the black lines English labels are given for identification purposes.
- A black and white blueprint of a ship with a flat deck designed to launch and recover airplanes. Medium sized guns line the bridge area, while notes and a ruler outline points of interest and the estimated length of the designed ship.
- A large gray box mounted on a platform, tipped at a roughly 45-degree angle facing the camera. A missile is sticking out from the front of the canister.
- A large room with gray machinery visible on the right and gray and orange machinery visible on the left. Three men in light blue shirts and one man in a black shirt are working on the equipment.
- An overhead view of a large ship with a teardrop shape firing guns toward the top of the image.
- A large gray grid mounted on the top of a ship overlooking a harbor. On the seaport cars are visible, behind the radar the aft end of the frigate is visible as well as a ship docked at the pier.
- A large panel with many dials. A man works a wheel at the far right end of the image.
- A watercolor painting depicting a large gray ship sailing away from the viewer. The latter half of the battleship is equipped with missile launchers.
- Three towers are visible, at the top of the first, a dish; at the top of the second, a metal bar; at the top of the third watchman's post attached to a smoke stack.
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- Iowa class aircraft carrier.jpg
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- USS Iowa gunfire control radars.jpg
- USS New Jersey electrical generators.jpg
- USS New Jersey engine room controls.jpg
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| - The Iowa-class battleships were a class of fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Four were completed; two more were laid down but canceled at war's end and scrapped. Like other third-generation American battleships, the Iowa class followed the design pattern set forth in the preceding North Carolina-class and South Dakota-class battleships, which emphasized speed and the secondary and anti-aircraft batteries. The Iowas were the longest battleships ever built, although others had wider beams and higher displacements. Between the mid-1940s and the early 1990s, the Iowa-class battleships fought in four U.S. wars. In World War II, they defended aircraft carriers and shelled Japanese positions. During the Korean War, the battleships provided seaborne artillery support for United Nations forces fighting North Korea, and in 1968, New Jersey shelled Viet Cong and Vietnam People's Army forces in the Vietnam War. All four were reactivated and armed with missiles during the 1980s as part of the 600-ship Navy initiative; during 1991's Operation Desert Storm, Missouri and Wisconsin fired missiles and guns at Iraqi targets. Costly to maintain, the battleships were decommissioned during the post-Cold War drawdown in the early 1990s. All four were initially removed from the Naval Vessel Register; however, the United States Congress compelled the Navy to reinstate two of them on the grounds that existing naval gunfire support would be inadequate for amphibious operations. This resulted in a lengthy debate over whether battleships should have a role in the modern navy. Ultimately, all four ships were stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and released for donation to non-profit organizations. With the transfer of Iowa in 2012, all four are part of various non-profit maritime museums across the U.S.
- The Iowa-class battleship was a class of four battleships built for and used by the United States Navy during World War II, and the last to be built by the United States. Six were originally planned, but production on the last two was cancelled after the war ended.
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