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The USS Iowa: Back in the Day... If you're a Facebook user (who isn't?), "like" the Pacific Battleship Center's fan page to check out the awesome images that the center—which is responsible for maintaining the USS Iowa at her dock in San Pedro, California—occasionally posts on its newsfeed. The illustration above and the photos below are but a few of the reminders of how formidable the USS Iowa (as well as her sister ships, the Missouri, New Jersey and Wisconsin) was in her heyday during World War II and the NATO exercises in the 1980s. Even though the Iowa is now a floating museum near Los Angeles, it isn't so farfetched that she'll be sailing across the ocean to shell enemy targets with her 16-inch guns once again...as the Pentagon has mandated that the Battleship of Presidents remains somewhat in a state of combat readiness through 2020, should she be called back into duty. That would be amazing (assuming, of course, the Iowa lives on to once again return to her final home in SoCal to resume being one of L.A.'s most popular museums).
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