A brilliantly detailed visual representation of one of the greatest US
warships, the USS Iowa, whose four decades in service took her from
the Pacific War in World War II to the Persian Gulf in the late 1980s.
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 sank 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. It 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.