The USS Iowa, built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was the lead ship of the last class of battleships in the Navy, having served in three significant commissions: World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War. Bit by bit, I'm exploring people, places, and things that are somehow connected to my life and to each other.Īnd so, four years after the USS Iowa emerged from the Navy's mothball fleet and made the Port of LA her permanent home, it was time for me to know more about battleships than what I experienced playing (and winning) the board game as a child. None of the stories really felt very connected. I could commit enough of them to my short-term memory to pass the tests, write the papers, and get an A or B on my report card, but none of it ever made much sense to me. I didn't have the patience for learning all the names and dates and places. I was never good at history (or "social studies") in school. Circa 1987 (Photo: National Museum of the U.S.
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