In a further sign that none of the Iowa-class battleships will ever return to service, the latest U.S. Navy vessel named for the Hawkeye State was officially commissioned into service at a ...

T.J. Martin, Dean of Iowa Central’s Distance Learning Department, coordinated the book project that chronicles the lives of the former students from the 1960s and ’70s.

The United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships were the largest and most powerful warships ever built in the United States. All four warships participated in operations during the Second World ...

and follows in the steps of two battleships that saw service in the World Wars and Korea. The last Iowa was BB-61, the lead hull in the four-ship World War II Iowa-class. Present at the event ...