Key Points - The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy's largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with nine 16-inch guns capable of hurling ...
Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire long enough to land decisive hits. Yamato carried the ...