Battleships: Iowa Class - General Views of the Class

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Sisters USS New Jersey and USS Missouri in mothballs, July 1981.
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Thanks Brian , is this part of the USN's version of " China Lake " or are they dotted around many ports
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China Lake is actually a Navy base in the middle of the Mojave desert in California!! I served there, TAD, for several months in 1966; one of a handful of Marines on a Navy base with no water for several hundred miles!!

Back to the subject at hand: the last USN BBs......... :) DFO
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Great photos Brian and Dennis, thanks for posting them

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jbryce1437 wrote: Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:20 pm Great photos Brian and Dennis, thanks for posting them

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Can only agree with that Jim , so grateful they joined our new berth :)
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Views of the old girls when they were young and spry and at war...
USS IOWA.9.jpg
USS NEW JERSEY (4).JPG
USS MISSOURI.BB-63.2.jpg
USS WISCONSIN FROM AO TALUGA.1945.jpg
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Thanks for sharing those Don , a bit like us ....they were once fit and business like ......nice model ;)
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Here is a view of the MISSOURI in August, 1988. WOW...would I have loved to have been on her, even though she's not the WISCONSIN!! ;)

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The moth balled WISCONSIN, IOWA and carrier SHANGRI-LA at Philly, 1978. ;) Also, a nice high bow on view of WISCONSIN...... :D DFO
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With the Missouri here in Hawaii, I was glad to have built a model of the wartime Missouri "back a few years" -- eyeballs getting too old for modeling anymore, I think...
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