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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship.Completed in 1944, the ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Philippines campaign and the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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USS Wisconsin (BB-9) was an Illinois-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa -class battleship USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827) a planned Columbia -class submarine
USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827) will be the second Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine. She is the third vessel of the United States Navy to be named after the state of Wisconsin. [2] The previous name holder was the Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64), which decommissioned in 1991 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2006. [3]
The roll out was straight for 800-1,000 feet before the C-119 veered to the right and into the water, with the cockpit filling to about the level of the side window. The two crew evacuated through the top hatch, slid off the left wing and swam ashore. Although the plane had stopped basically intact, wave action overnight destroyed the airframe.
The cantilever bridge connects Iowa Highway 9 to Wisconsin Highway 82. Its closure means residents who live on one side of the Mississippi and work on the other will now be facing a much longer ...
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A Phalanx CIWS mount aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. During their modernization in the 1980s, each Iowa-class battleship was equipped with four of the US Navy's Phalanx CIWS mounts, two of which sat just behind the bridge and two which were forward and outboard of the after ship's funnel.