IOWA LAUNCHED
GREATEST UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP. CLAIMED TO BE MOST POWERFUL AFLOAT. (By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyrightl NEW YORK, August 27. The 45,000-ton lowa, the mightiest United States battleship yet built, was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Thirty thousand people attended the ceremony, while a further 10,000 watched from the Manhattan side. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr Ralph Bard, said the Japanese and the Germans built stealthily and well, but he would guarantee that they had never fashioned such a weapbn as the lowa. This was no mere ship. It was a tool with which the Americans' future would be written on the pages of history. The lowa is 880 feet long with a main battery of sixteen-inch guns which, it is claimed, will fire faster and further than any other ship afloat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1942, Page 4
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134IOWA LAUNCHED Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1942, Page 4
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