During World War II, they defended aircraft carriers and shelled Japanese positions. Like other third-generation American battleships, the Iowa class emphasized speed in addition to secondary and anti-aircraft batteries.īetween the end of the mid-1940s and the early 1990s, the Iowa-class battleships participated in four major wars.
Four were completed, while two more were laid down but were not finished before the war's end and were ultimately scrapped. The Iowa-class battleships were a class of fast battleships designed and fielded by the United States Navy in 1939–1940 to escort their Fast Carrier Task Forces operating in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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