Iowa Class Battleships USS Wisconsin (BB-64) and USS Iowa (BB-61)

3/28/1992 GE imagery.

Wisconsin on the left and Iowa on the right.

The Iowa-class battleships were a class of fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

USS Wisconsin (BB-64)

Laid down: January 25, 1941
Launched: December 7, 1943
Commissioned: April 16, 1944
Decommissioned: July 1, 1948
Recommissioned: March 3, 1951
Decommissioned: March 8, 1958
Recommissioned: October 22, 1988
Decommissioned: September 30, 1991
Struck: March 17, 2006

USS Iowa (BB-61)

Laid down: June 27, 1940
Launched: August 27, 1942
Commissioned: February 22, 1943
Decommissioned: March 24, 1949
Recommissioned: August 25, 1951
Decommissioned: February 24, 1958
Recommissioned: April 28, 1984
Decommissioned: October 26, 1990
Struck: March 17, 2006