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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 .
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.
USS Wisconsin, photographed at sea in her 1980s configuration. USS Missouri fires her 16-inch guns. The Iowa-class battleships are the most heavily armed warships the United States Navy has ever put to sea, due to the continual development of their onboard weaponry.
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.
The hunter feared for his safety, officials said.
Authorities in a small town in Wyoming thought they might have a mountain lion on their hands, so they set up trail cameras hoping to spot it. Two or three weeks later, the Evansville Police ...
English: The battleships USS Iowa (BB-61) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) in mothball storage at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvanina (USA), on 8 July 1978. Visible on the left is the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CVS-38).
"The children were playing in the immediate vicinity of the family’s picnic table when a mountain lion attacked a 5-year-old boy," the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said.