USS Iowa - The Battleship of Presidents
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2024
- Warship Guide - USS Iowa BB 61
USS Iowa is a warship with several nicknames, including “The Battleship of Presidents”, "The Mighty I" and "The Big Stick". She was the lead ship of her class and was the pinnacle of US battleship design under the limitations of the inter war treaty system. Iowa was sleek, fast, and packed a powerful punch with her main battery, which fired a total of 11,834 16 inch rounds over the course of her career. Iowa earned a total of 11 battle stars during her time in the Pacific and off the Korean peninsula, and today she resides at the Pacific Battleship Center in the Port of Los Angeles and is a very well maintained museum ship open to the public.
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I admire the fact that America has preserved so many of its major warships as memorials to their armed forces.it is good to remember..Roly 🇬🇧.
Yes but they allowed the greatest aircraft carrier to be dismantled the Enterprise which had more battle stars than any ship on US history.
I really enjoyed visiting USS Iowa in San Pedro. I highly recommend that you hire a guided tour if you go. My guide, Don McMackin, did an amazing job> We had a lot in common having both served as Surface Warfare Officers on cruisers in the 1980s.
Such grand ships. Great bit of history
I attended the memorial service for the 47 Sailors lost in April 1989 due to the turret explosion...
Awesome, thanks 👍
I think the USS Missouri is probably the ship of presidents. The Japanese surrender was signed on that ship because president Truman was from Missouri.
True, but Truman was the only President to ever board Missouri, while Iowa had 3 come aboard, which is very rare. If you don't believe me, check out the USS Iowa Memorial site.
@@TheValorVault makes sense.
Also, the USS Iowa was outfitted so that President Roosevelt could comfortably travel overseas...
"The Big Stick" indeed was Roosevelt's favorite Battleship.
Hence why she's known as the President's Battleship....because not just one, but three Presidents were aboard her. ❤🇺🇸💙🙏
She has a elevator installed
The claim that Iowa hit Katori emanates from the USS Iowa Veterans Association. The pilot in question reported a 'possible' hit from the second salvo. The Captain of Iowa knew better, as Iowa engaged Katori in a clear visibility daylight action from at average range of less than 14,500 yards utilizing the Mark 8 Radar Range keeper. Captain J. L. McCrea's after- action report claimed no hits, stating that all eight salvoes were straddles.
It should also be noted that Iowa and New Jersey getting involved actively helped the Japanese by putting an end to the American carrier strikes against the remaining Japanese ships.
Yamato’s combat record at Samar wasn’t as bad as that (at least Yamato didn’t actively help the other side by being present!).
@@bkjeong4302 Yamato's gunnery off Samar was unequalled by any other capital ship during the war. Three 1st- salvo hits on a destroyer from over 20,000 yards and one 1st salvo hit (ranged soley by the ship's supposedly inferior radar) from just under 22,000 yards. Then severely damaging an escort carrier from two very close near misses from just over 34,000 yards.
@@manilajohn0182
Yamato did indeed actually do a lot more at Samar than once assumed, but that doesn’t change the fact she was spectacularly overkill against Taffy 3, so she hardly proved herself there even with the damage she caused; my point was that at least Yamato didn’t actively help Taffy 3 like Iowa helped the remaining Japanese vessels in Truk.
@@bkjeong4302 While there's definitely some truth to that, the fact (often overlooked in the focus on the heroism of Taffy 3's escorts) is that the superiority of the firepower of the ships of the Center Force was greatly mitigated- less by Taffy 3s escorts and far more by over 300 aircraft of both Taffys 2 and 3- and some errors made by Kurita. This is borne out by the fact that the lost Japanese warships from Center Force were sunk primarily due to air attacks, and by the record of Kurita's recall of some of his light forces which were closing in on Taffy 3.
I'm not trying to detract from the unsurpassed heroism of the escort crews, but that's the historical record.
@@manilajohn0182
I am actually well aware that Samar was won by airpower and not by the tin cans who ended up stealing the credit, but that just puts Yamato in an even worse situation given that battleships in general have a poor track record against carriers.
More to the point, my point isn’t that Yamato lost to tin cans as popularly believed (because, as you pointed out, American airpower was the biggest motivator in Kurita’s retreat) but that she was spectacularly overkill for shooting up destroyers.
You have some bogus statistics here.
I crossed referenced everything, so what did I get wrong?