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Download or read book USS Iowa at War written by Kit Bonner and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Bonner’s are at it again! And this time maritime journalism’s most prolific writer/photographer team focus their deft talents on a beloved sure-fire subject – the mighty battleship Iowa…USS Iowa at War captures the drama of this historic battle – with the U.S. Navy spoiling for revenge for Pearl Harbor – as well as the other great engagements of the Iowa and the mighty vessels of her class.” Sea Classics The lead ship of her class, the last of the battleships--and the best--the USS Iowa (BB 61) marks the beginning and end of a naval era. This book traces the Iowas long and storied career--from her conception in the 1930s as the first of the 45,000-ton class of battleships, through her distinguished service in World War II and Korea and the 1980s, to her historic status today. Along the way, the Iowa earned eleven battle stars and took part in what many consider the last of the great battleship engagements, the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. USS Iowa at War captures the drama of this historic battle--with the U.S. Navy spoiling for revenge for Pearl Harbor--as well as the other great engagements of the Iowa and the mighty vessels of her class; in particular, the book depicts the ships part in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, where Iowa effectively destroyed all that remained of Japans carrier-based aircraft.
Book Synopsis USS Iowa at War by : Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner
Download or read book USS Iowa at War written by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battleship USS Iowa by : Stefan Draminski
Download or read book The Battleship USS Iowa written by Stefan Draminski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The ship ended the war spending several months bombarding the Japanese Home Islands before the surrender in August 1945. 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. After being decommissioned a second and final time in 1990, the Iowa is now a museum ship in Los Angeles. This new 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.
Book Synopsis The Battleship USS Iowa by : Stefan Draminski
Download or read book The Battleship USS Iowa written by Stefan Draminski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The ship ended the war spending several months bombarding the Japanese Home Islands before the surrender in August 1945. 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. After being decommissioned a second and final time in 1990, the Iowa is now a museum ship in Los Angeles. This new 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.
Download or read book Battleship Iowa written by Lawrence Burr and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USS Iowa BB-61, the first of four Iowa-class battleships built for the U.S. Navy, was launched in 1942. Capable of thirty-three knots and armed with nine new fifty-caliber sixteen-inch guns, she was the pinnacle of battleship design for the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Iowa class perfectly merged the heavy armor of battleships with the speed of battlecruisers. Iowa's speed and heavy armament positioned her to accompany and protect U.S. Fast Carrier task forces through the Pacific War by participating in multiple actions from Truck, the Philippine Sea, Leyte, and ending in Tokyo Bay. Deactivated in 1948, the outbreak of the Korean War saw Iowa recommissioned in 1951 for shore bombardment duty in support of United Nation troops against the North Korean army invasion. Iowa returned to the U.S. in 1952, and then participated in NATO exercises until she was decommissioned in 1958. Soviet expansion and rearmament programs in the 1970's saw Iowa recommissioned in 1984 following a two-year modernization program. This program saw the addition of nuclear capable Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles and modern computer-based communication technology. Extensive exercises with NATO forces and goodwill visits carried through until April 1989, when tragedy struck the ship with an explosion in gun turret two killing 47crew members. The soundness of Iowa's design and her armored strength prevented the explosion from reaching her magazines and the potential loss of the ship. Decommissioned in October 1990 and placed in reserve, she would eventually be stricken from the Navy record in 2006. Transferred to the Port of Los Angeles in 2012, Iowa now serves as the National Museum of the Surface Navy located at San Pedro, California.
Book Synopsis A Glimpse of Hell by : Charles C. Thompson
Download or read book A Glimpse of Hell written by Charles C. Thompson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1999 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probes the explosion of the center gun on the USS Iowa, a disaster that killed several sailors onboard instantly, and the fouled investigation that took followed, resulting in a large-scale cover-up that almost ruined forever the reputation of innocent men.
Download or read book USS Missouri at War written by Kit Bonner and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the wartime career of the USS Missouri from World War II to the Gulf War. On September 2, 1945, surrender ceremonies officially ending World War II were broadcast worldwide from the deck of the USS Missouri. The ceremony also marked the end of one of the most eventful years for any vessel in the history of warfare. USS Missouri at War chronicles the career of this mighty warship, the last battleship built by the United States. Veteran naval historian Kit Bonner describes “Mighty Mo’s” powerful strikes against Japan, its support of the Iwo Jima landings and bombardment of Okinawa, and its decisive role in the destruction of key Japanese industrial targets. That war was over, but the Missouri was not done yet; and Bonner follows her service in the Korean War, her modernization and reactivation for the 1991 Gulf War, and her final decommissioning in 1992, with eleven battle stars to her credit. For its authoritative and close-up look at the life and work of a world-class battleship, and for its insight into the history of twentieth-century naval warfare, this strikingly illustrated book is one that no naval enthusiast or military history buff will want to be without.
Download or read book USS Iowa (BB-61) written by David Doyle and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in the United States Navy's last, and most battle-worthy, battleship class, which also included the New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri. This volume explores Iowa's design, construction, launching, and commissioning, as well as its extensive wartime activities in both World War II and Korea. Also covered are its post-Korea years in the reserve "mothball fleet," recommissioning in 1984, and coverage of the tragic 1989 turret explosion that killed forty-seven sailors. The carefully researched photos, many of which have never before been published, are reproduced in remarkable clarity, and coupled with descriptive and informative captions, this book puts the reader on the deck of this historic warship throughout her history.
Book Synopsis The Battleship USS Iowa by : Stefan Dramiński
Download or read book The Battleship USS Iowa written by Stefan Dramiński and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis US Fast Battleships 1938–91 by : Lawrence Burr
Download or read book US Fast Battleships 1938–91 written by Lawrence Burr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, the United States abandoned the constraints imposed by the Washington Teaty and began work on a new class of super-battleships. This book covers the design, construction, and employment of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest in the American fleet. During World War II, they served as guards for the aircraft carriers and their bombardments provided cover for the numerous landings in the Pacific. At the war's end, the Japanese signed their surrender on the decks of an Iowa-class battleship, the USS Missouri. After World War II, the ships continued to serve, providing support during Korea, Vietnam, and even the first Gulf War. This book tells the full story of the greatest of the American battleships.
Book Synopsis Iowa Class Battleships by : Robert F. Sumrall
Download or read book Iowa Class Battleships written by Robert F. Sumrall and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique compilation of technical data and the career histories of the lowa, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri.
Book Synopsis The Battleship USS Iowa by : Witold Koszela
Download or read book The Battleship USS Iowa written by Witold Koszela and published by Top Drawings. This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American battleship USS Iowa is one of the most famous warships of World War Two era. Built in 1943 at New York Naval Yard she was the lead ship of a series of four battleships of the class named after her and deemed some of the world's largest and best. During the Second World War USS Iowa went into history as a ship aboard which the president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled to Tehran, where the infamous Tehran Conference, in which two other leaders: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet prime minister Joseph Stalin participated, was held. Later the ship was sent to serve in the Pacific, where she took part in almost all major operations against Japanese forces. After a short overhaul in San Francisco in early 1945 she continued operations against Japan, taking part among others in the shelling of Kyushu, Honshu, and Hokkaido islands, and on 27 August 1945 the ship's crew accepted the surrender of the Yokosuka naval base. After the end of the war, in early 1946 Iowa was the flagship of the 5th Fleet, operating in Gulf of Tokio waters, and after the return to the US her role was limited to that of a training ship.
Download or read book Yamato VS Iowa written by Paul Forest and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4 November 1937 the super battleship Yamato was secretly laid down at Kure Naval Arsenal. Less than three years later, on 27 June 1940, invoking the "escalator clause", the Americans laid down the first unit of their greatest battleship class, USS Iowa at the New York Naval Yard. Lacking accurate intel, both navies were convinced that their newest battleship was second to none and thus capable of overwhelming any foe in a gunnery duel. In the possession of the actual technical characteristics of the two ships, relying on primary sources and empirical data, we now take on, once again, one of the most hotly debated questions among naval analysts and enthusiasts ever since: Who was right? - Highly technical, no-nonsense analysis based on primary sources. - Lavishly illustrated with line drawings including armour penetration curves, immunity graphs, armour diagrams, block diagrams of fire-control systems, and more. - Lists of tables, figures and pictures to ease navigation. - Imperial + metric units.
Book Synopsis Battleship at War by : Ivan Musicant
Download or read book Battleship at War written by Ivan Musicant and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the American battleship commissioned in 1941 and its career during World War II.
Book Synopsis The Battleships of the Iowa Class by : Philippe Caresse
Download or read book The Battleships of the Iowa Class written by Philippe Caresse and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four battleships of the Iowa class, the crowning achievement of U.S. battleship construction, had exceptionally long careers and each in their way left a distinctive mark not only on the U.S. Navy but on naval history at large. Built as the ultimate American battleship and designed to engage the major units of the Japanese and German fleets, the vessels were commissioned in the closing stages of World War II, the beginning of half a century of service during which individual units saw action in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Lebanese Civil War and finally the Persian Gulf War. As such, these ships are symbolic of the primacy of U.S. seapower during the Cold War, and the preservation of all four members of this mighty class as museums is testament not only to their enduring fascination for successive generations of Americans, but also to the immense technical, financial, military, and political resources wielded by the United States during the second half of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis A Visual Tour of Battleship USS New Jersey by : John Miano
Download or read book A Visual Tour of Battleship USS New Jersey written by John Miano and published by John Miano. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Visual Tour of Battleship USS New Jersey is a photographic exploration of the entire ship, from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the chain locker. It capture areas of USS New Jersey that have never appeared in print before.
Book Synopsis US Fast Battleships 1938–91 by : Lawrence Burr
Download or read book US Fast Battleships 1938–91 written by Lawrence Burr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, the United States abandoned the constraints imposed by the Washington Teaty and began work on a new class of super-battleships. This book covers the design, construction, and employment of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest in the American fleet. During World War II, they served as guards for the aircraft carriers and their bombardments provided cover for the numerous landings in the Pacific. At the war's end, the Japanese signed their surrender on the decks of an Iowa-class battleship, the USS Missouri. After World War II, the ships continued to serve, providing support during Korea, Vietnam, and even the first Gulf War. This book tells the full story of the greatest of the American battleships.