By Taylor Boyd Thirty-seven years after an explosion aboard the USS Iowa killed 47 sailors and destroyed its No. 2 gun turret, a Patrick County man who served aboard the battleship still remembers the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 19, 1989, the center gun of the number two 16-inch gun turret exploded during a training exercise aboard the battleship ...
Summary and Key Points: The Iowa-class battleships were the fastest and most powerful the U.S. Navy ever built. The four ...