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USS Kentucky: The lost Iowa-class battleship the Navy never finished

USS Kentucky (BB-66) was conceived first as a Montana-class super-battleship and then reordered as an Iowa-class fast ...
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USS Illinois: Why The Doomed Iowa-Class Battleship Was Never Deployed

The Iowa class of battleships consists of a quartet of formidable ships: The USS Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and the namesake Iowa. Conceptually, they were intended as the perfect battleship, ...