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USS Illinois: The Forgotten Iowa-Class Battleship the Navy Never Finished

The USS Illinois (BB-65) was conceived as a tougher follow-on to the Iowa class and first of the planned Montana-type heavy ...
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The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-Class: The Best Battleships To Ever Sail

Key Points - The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy's largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with nine 16-inch guns capable of hurling ...