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  2. USS Wisconsin (BB-64) - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Battleship (film) - Wikipedia

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    Battleship is a 2012 American military science fiction action film based on the board game of the same name.The film was directed by Peter Berg from a script by brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber and stars Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna in her feature film debut, Tadanobu Asano, Hamish Linklater and Liam Neeson.

  4. USS Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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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

  5. 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun - Wikipedia

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    Yard workers hoist one of nine 16"/50 Mark VII gun barrels aboard the USS Iowa during her construction in 1942. The 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns of the forward turret of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fire at enemy targets ashore on the Korean Peninsula on 30 January 1952 during the Korean War.

  6. American Warships - Wikipedia

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    American Warships is a 2012 science fiction war film directed by Thunder Levin and distributed by The Asylum. It premiered on the Syfy Channel on May 15, 2012. In the tradition of The Asylum's film catalog, the film is an extremely low-budget mockbuster of the Hasbro Studios/Universal Pictures film Battleship. [1]

  7. Submarine films - Wikipedia

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    The submarine film is a subgenre of war film in which most of the plot revolves around a submarine below the ocean's surface. Films of this subgenre typically focus on a small but determined crew of submariners battling against enemy submarines or submarine-hunter ships, or against other problems ranging from disputes amongst the crew, threats ...

  8. USS Wisconsin (BB-9) - Wikipedia

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    USS Wisconsin (BB-9), an Illinois-class pre-dreadnought battleship, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 30th state. She was the third and final member of her class to be built. Her keel was laid down in February 1897 at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, and she was launched in November 1898.

  9. USS Wisconsin (SSBN-827) - Wikipedia

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    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.