USS Iowa opens to public at L.A. port
LOS ANGELES — The fearsome guns of the USS Iowa protected FDR from torpedo attacks and helped destroy the Japanese military in World War II. They shelled North Korea in the 1950s and patrolled the Central American coast during the Cold War.
Former USS Iowa crew members board the ship during the commissioning ceremony for the battleship as a memorial and an educational museum at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, Calif. on Wednesday, July 4,2012. The ship, built in 1940, arrived in Los Angeles in May and will be permanently stationed in the port and operated as a floating museum. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) ORG XMIT: CARV102 Richard Vogel - AP
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On Saturday, with the grand opening of the country's newest battleship museum in the Los Angeles community of San Pedro, the artillery that struck so much fear in America's enemies got a new...
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