USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. (AP) SIG1333C black and white diagonal bars

black and white diagonal bars on the fuselage

Tribute to Joe Peterburs by Ivan Berryman

The recovery of LCpl Edwards Warrior

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18th April 1942 by David Pentland

USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. (AP) SIG1333C black and white diagonal barsDHM931AP. USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. BB61 Iowa, was commissioned in February 1943 at the New York Navy yard. her first mission was to the North Atlantic in August 1943 to neutralise the threat of the German Battleship Tirpitz. By early 1944 she joined the Pacific fleet taking part in many of the major battles including Saipan, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. She was re commissioned in 1951 for the Korean war and again in April 1984.