The 9:30 a.m. ceremony will remember and honor the 47 sailors who lost their lives after a gun turret exploded on the USS Iowa during a firing exercise on April 19, 1989. The battleship was ...

On April 19, 1989, the day of the ... The deadly blast aboard the Iowa marked the first explosion in a battleship turret since 1943, when 43 sailors aboard the USS Mississippi were killed, the ...

On April 19, 1989, the day of the ... The deadly blast aboard the Iowa marked the first explosion in a battleship turret since 1943, when 43 sailors aboard the USS Mississippi were killed, the ...

The U.S. Navy covered itself with shame thirty years ago while investigating a fatal explosion on board the battleship USS Iowa. The World ... perished on April 19, 1989, when the center gun ...

More than 150 attendees, including members of the USS Iowa (BB-61) Veterans Association, families, and friends of the “Iowa 47,” gathered onboard Naval Station Norfolk to mark ...

On the morning of April 19, 1989 — 35 years ago today — a horrific explosion and fire ripped through the No. 2 gun turret of the Norfolk-based battleship USS Iowa.

In 1989, an explosion in a gun turret aboard the battleship USS Iowa killed 47 sailors. In 1989, a Wall Street banker jogging through Central Park was assaulted and raped, leaving her in a coma ...

Gunner`s Mate Kendall Truitt was in the belly of the USS Iowa`s gun turret No. 2 when he heard an explosion that sounded louder than gunfire. Truitt and 10 other men in his compartment frantically ...

SAN PEDRO, Calif. (KABC) -- The lives of 47 sailors lost after an explosion rocked the USS Iowa on April 19, 1989 were remembered on the 35th anniversary of the tragedy. Scott Johnson served as a ...

Foley, a Whitehouse High School graduate, was one of 47 Navy sailors killed in an explosion on the USS Iowa in 1989. The city’s mayor read the proclamation in council meeting. “Therefore I, James ...