Navy - Battleship - Uss Iowa - Korean War W Svc Ribbons
Navy - Battleship - Uss Iowa - Korean War W Svc Ribbons
Navy - Battleship - Uss Iowa - Korean War W Svc Ribbons
Navy - Battleship - Uss Iowa - Korean War W Svc Ribbons
Navy - Battleship - Uss Iowa - Korean War W Svc Ribbons
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USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to have served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

During World War II, she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a meeting of vital importance in 1943 in Tehran with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands. She also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Admiral William F. Halsey's flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.

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