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 | 196k | Art line drawing of the Iowa (BB-61) in late 1945, MS-22 camouflage scheme. | Drawing courtesy of Abram Joslin. | |
 | 21k | Iowa (BB-61), in her final war time appearance. | USN photo. | |
 | 77k | Looking down from the forecastle of the Iowa (BB-61) onto her main armament at Seattle Navy Base, October, 1945. | USN photo courtesy of Seattle NARA, submitted by Tracy White. | |
 | 198k | PDF of a Personal History of the Iowa (BB-61) from Albert Lee Candido of Kansas City, Mo. / Radio Press News featuring internal coverage of ship happenings in Japan, late August 1945. | Courtesy of Mike Sharp and submitted by Robert Hall. | |
 | 198k | PDF of a Personal History of the Iowa (BB-61) from Albert Lee Candido of Kansas City, Mo. / Radio Press News featuring internal coverage of ship happenings in Japan, 21 Sept. 1945. | Courtesy of Mike Sharp and submitted by Robert Hall. | |
 | 204k | PDF of a Personal History of the Iowa (BB-61) from Albert Lee Candido of Kansas City, Mo. / Radio Press News featuring internal coverage of ship happenings in Japan, while sailing home, 2 October 1945. | Courtesy of Mike Sharp and submitted by Robert Hall. | |
 | 304k | The Iowa (BB-61) still has the large open mesh SK air search antenna mounted atop a plain pole foretopmast. And there is nothing mounted on the aft mast attached to Stack #2. She also appears to be painted Haze Gray on all her vertical surfaces and has no large shaded hull numbers. This photo was most likely taken in 1946-47. During this period she operated from West Coast ports, on Naval Reserve and at sea training and drills and maneuvers with the Fleet. | USN photo courtesy of David Buell. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. Photo i.d. courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 87k | The Iowa (BB-61) in May of 1947. Photo focused on the starboard side floatplane, a Curtiss SC-1. Note that there was a plane on each catapult and a third on the deck between the two. | Photograph courtesy of LCDR W. F. Keller, USNR & submitted by Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 366k | Iowa (BB-61) in San Francisco Bay with the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge and Yerba Buana Island in the background on 24 May 1947. Note the two Curtiss SC-1's on their catapults. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo added 01/11/08. | |
 | 241k | Iowa (BB-61) at anchor. Actual date and place not known but the photo was placed in the shipyard photo system of Mare Island, California in March 1949. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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