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The USS Iowa (BB-61) was a battleship of the United States Navy that served in three wars: World War II, the Korean War, and the Gulf War
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00:00 The USS Iowa, BB-61, was a battleship of the United States Navy that served in three wars,
00:06 World War II, the Korean War, and the Gulf War. It was the lead ship of the Iowa class,
00:11 the last and largest class of battleships built by the US. It had a speed of 33 knots, which
00:17 allowed it to escort fast carriers, and a powerful armament of nine 16-inch guns and various smaller
00:22 weapons. It also carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic in 1943 for a
00:28 meeting with Churchill and Stalin in Tehran. During this voyage, it was fitted with a bathtub
00:33 for the President's use, the only US Navy ship to have one. It was transferred to the Pacific Fleet
00:38 in 1944 and participated in several campaigns, including the Marshall Islands, the Marianas,
00:44 Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. It also served as the third fleet flagship, flying Admiral William
00:51 F. Halsey's flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. After World War II, it was briefly
00:56 decommissioned before being reactivated for the Korean War. It conducted several bombardments of
01:01 the North Korean coast and supported UN forces on the ground. It was decommissioned again in 1958
01:07 and placed in the Reserve Fleet. In 1984, it was modernized and reactivated as part of President
01:12 Ronald Reagan's naval expansion program. It received new weapons systems, such as Tomahawk
01:18 cruise missiles, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and Phalanx SeaWiz. It operated in the Atlantic and
01:23 Caribbean until 1989, when it suffered a turret explosion that killed 47 sailors. It was repaired
01:29 and sent to the Persian Gulf in 1990, where it launched missiles against Iraqi targets during
01:34 Operation Desert Storm. It was decommissioned for the last time in 1990 and stricken from the naval
01:39 vessel register in 2006. It is now a museum ship at the Port of Los Angeles.
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