Designed with a long, narrow hull for speed, the four Iowa-class battleships could keep pace with the fast carrier task forces they screened, something older, slower battleships could never do. USS Missouri would later host Japan's formal surrender in Tokyo Bay, and all four ships remained in US Navy service, on and off, into the 1990s.
A bow view of the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61) firing its Mark 7 16-inch/50-caliber guns off the starboard side during a fire power demonstration.PH1 Jeff Hilton · Public domain · sourceThe 5-INCH .38-CALIBER dual gun mount on the starboard side of the USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) during the battleship's transit across the Continental Divide at the Gaillard Cut.Service Depicted: NavyCamera Operator: DON S. MONTGOMERY, USN (RET.)Cropped by:Dual Freq · Public domain · sourceU.S. Navy Battleship Division 2 in line abreast formation, 7 June 1954, in the Virginia Capes operating area, on the only occasion that all four Iowa-class battleships were photographed operating together. The ship closeU.S. Navy · Public domain · source
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