The USS Iowa was built in 1940 served our country for over 50 years and was designated as the "world's largest warship" because of their big guns, heavy armor, high speed, durability and flexibility of modernization that allowed keep pace with technology. She was fitted in the Second World War to be the flagship that carried President Franklin Roosevelt across the Atlantic to meet with Winston Churchill. It also was recommissioned in 1984 by Vice President George HW Bush, who later became the commander of the USS Iowa in Chief from 1989 to Iowa was decommissioned in 1990. The USS Iowa was the flagship for President Ronald Reagan to celebrate our nation's freedom in 1986.Iowa's class participated in all the conflicts between and since the Second World War up to and including the first Gulf War in 1991. The Navy and Marines aboard the USS Iowa were the last to "The sailors of the battleship" and the warship that now takes place among the other famous ships, such as sailing frigate "USS Constitution". Technological advances in U.S. naval design really made the Iowa class battleships the most powerful ships in the world, for its time.
