By Taylor Boyd Thirty-seven years after an explosion aboard the USS Iowa killed 47 sailors and destroyed its No. 2 gun turret ...
In April 1989, an explosion inside USS Iowa’s Turret Two killed 47 sailors during a gunnery exercise and turned one of America’s most famous battleships into the center of a national scandal. Early ...
Service members and families gathered at Naval Station Norfolk's Iowa Point to remember the 47 sailors who died when a gun turret exploded aboard the battleship in 1989 NORFOLK, Va. — Service members ...