ALL RIGHT, ETHAN, THANK YOU. AS WE GET CLOSER TO JULY, THAT MEANS WE’RE CLOSE TO JULY FOURTH. IT’S HAPPENING THIS THURSDAY. FIREWORKS ARE LEGAL HERE IN IOWA, BUT USING THEM IS ILLEGAL IN MOST CITIES.

It is rumored Capt. John L. McCrea spewed his coffee out on the bridge of the USS Iowa when one of his officers delivered some orders from Washington, D.C. “A bathtub? Aboard a battleship,” McCrea may ...

WATERLOO — Kelly Sullivan remembers another cold April day 28 years ago. On a Staten Island pier in New York harbor, she helped commission the Navy destroyer USS The Sullivans, hull number DDG-68, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Iowa 36th Commemoration Ceremony will be held at Naval Station Norfolk on Saturday. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony will remember and honor the 47 sailors who lost their lives after a ...

SAN PEDRO, Calif. | George Cavanaugh and George Milligan, both of Cedar Rapids, served on the USS Iowa at the same time during the Korean War. But the men never met until Tuesday, as they toured the ...

Kelly Sullivan, right, a member of the USS Iowa commissioning committee and her father Jim Sullivan, center, pose with U.S. Army veteran Bill Keane of Waterloo at a watch part for the commissioning of ...

The USS Iowa was the first of the Iowa-class battleships that were the mightiest in the U.S. fleet in World War II. It was decommissioned in the 1950s, then recommissioned in 1982 to help counter an ...

Scores of Los Angeles-area 11th-graders visited the USS Battleship Iowa, in San Pedro, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, to learn about the life of a historic U.S. Navy vice admiral, and listen to military and ...