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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 ...
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The Navy’s Best Decision: $100,000,000 for an Iowa-Class Battleship
The Iowa-class embodied peak battleship power: fast, heavily armored, and devastating ashore. -Adjusted for inflation, they look “cheap” today—but only on paper. -Modern warfare renders big guns short ...
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