USS Illinois: Why The Doomed Iowa-Class Battleship Was Never Deployed

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 siblings at sea. Here's why.
The National Interest

Montana-Class vs. Iowa-Class: Which Would Have Been the Better Battleship?

Summary: The Montana-class battleships, authorized but never constructed, represented what could have been the pinnacle of U.S. naval power during World War II, eclipsed by the strategic shift towards ...
National Security Journal on MSN

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 ...
KTLA

Battleship Iowa deck replacement

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Gayle Anderson reports what KTLA has been ...
The New York Times

THE IOWA BADLY DAMAGED; Big Battleship Ordered Here to Go Out of Commission. Three Decks Will Have to be Rebuilt -- The Explosion Due to a Defective Fuse -- The Three Dead Buried.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
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Battleship USS Iowa sees minimal impacts from California wildfires

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Battleship USS Iowa’s Facebook page shared its support for the people and businesses the wildfires have impacted. “For the most part it’s a lot of fallen ash from the ...
Yahoo

Battleship Iowa deck replacement

Gayle Anderson reports what KTLA has been following since July 2024, the unique project of replacing the distressed deck of the historic Battleship Iowa, also known as the Battleship of Presidents, ...