The Enterprise

Harrell recalls USS Iowa tragedy nearly 40 years later

By Taylor Boyd Thirty-seven years after an explosion aboard the USS Iowa killed 47 sailors and destroyed its No. 2 gun turret, a Patrick County man who served aboard the battleship still remembers the ...
Springfield News-Sun

For mom, USS Iowa a memorial to her son

And in her larger role as mother, Lawrence reflected on the news that the USS Iowa opened earlier this month as a floating museum in Los Angeles Harbor. Her eldest son, Errick, a 1978 graduate of ...
WZZM

Remembering the USS Iowa explosion, 29 years later

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- The Navy is remembering the fallen sailors of the USS Iowa (BB-61). On April 19, 1989, an explosion aboard the battleship claimed the lives of 47 crewmen. The ship's Number Two ...
WTKR

Veterans and families gather to mark the 37th anniversary of the USS Iowa tragedy at Naval Station Norfolk

Service members and families gathered at Naval Station Norfolk's Iowa Point to remember the 47 sailors who died when a gun turret exploded aboard the battleship in 1989 NORFOLK, Va. — Service members ...