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The Battleship USS Iowa

The Battleship USS Iowa cover

The Battleship USS Iowa

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USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in one of the most famous classes of battleships ever commissioned into the US Navy.

Transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, the Iowa first fired her guns in anger in the Marshall Islands campaign, and sunk her first enemy ship, the Katori. The Iowa went on to serve across a number of pivotal Pacific War campaigns, including at the battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf.

After taking part in the Korea War, the Iowa was decommissioned in 1958, before being briefly reactivated in the 1980s as part of President Reagan's 600-Ship Navy Plan. It is now a museum ship in Los Angeles.

This brilliantly-detailed addition to the Anatomy of the Ship series is illustrated with contemporary photographs, scaled plans of the ship and hundreds of superb 3D illustrations which bring every detail of this historic battleship to life.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) - Technical description
History of the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61)
Primary Views
The drawings
Bibliography

Product details

Published 18 Feb 2020
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 352
ISBN 9781472827296
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations More than 500 line and colour artworks.
Dimensions 240 x 253 mm
Series Anatomy of The Ship
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Stefan Draminski

Stefan Draminski is a naval researcher and illustr…

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