Without exception one of the largest and most powerful guns that has ever gone to sea the USS Iowa carried them and did so with pride. Without question the one most recognizable fact and often the most discussed topic whenever a US Navy battleship comes up is their 16 inch guns. Halsey‘s flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
It also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Admiral William F. When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands. She was also responsible for having taken the political heads to a famous and secretive meeting in Algeria in 1943 consisting of President D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain. She was also the only battleship of her class that fought in the Atlantic during World War 2. The USS Iowa, the lead ship of her class was the 4th ship to have ever been named after the great state of Iowa. America spoke softly before the Second World War but when she was tested she carried a pretty big stick. Nothing got as big or threw a more powerful punch than the USS Iowa in every US naval engagement she participated in. Speak softly and carry a “Big Stick” you will go far was attributed to the foreign policies of former President Theodore Roosevelt and something akin to the the United States battleship USS Iowa BB-61 The Big Stick. USS Iowa Warships of WW2 75th Anniversary Coin
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