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Never Finished: USS Illinois Is the U.S. Navy’s ‘Scrapped’ Iowa-class Battleship
The USS Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class battleship, ordered in 1940, with its keel laid in late 1942. -However, the ...
The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...
The USS Iowa was commissioned at the Naval Submarine Base New London in Connecticut in April. On this River to River, host Ben Kieffer brings us to Connecticut, where he experienced the commissioning ...
Key Points and Summary: The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored "battlewagons." -Ordered in 1940 and ...
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