Battleship USS Iowa to become floating museum

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U.S.-LOS ANGLES-BATTLESHIP USS IOWA

Photo taken on July 4, 2012 shows the cabin of the battleship USS Iowa at the Port of Los Angeles, the United States. The battleship USS Iowa arrived in Los Angeles in May and will be permanently stationed in the port and operated as a floating museum. The Iowa was commissioned in 1943. It carried President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to his historic meeting in the Iranian capital Tehran with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin during World War Two. Later in the war, it took part in the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945. The Iowa was decommissioned in 1990 and was later kept in a naval center in Rhode Island before it was towed through the Panama Canal to Northern California. It will become the only battleship museum on the U.S. West Coast when it opens on July 7. (Xinhua/Yang Lei)



U.S.-LOS ANGLES-BATTLESHIP USS IOWA

A veteran greets the battleship USS Iowa at the Port of Los Angeles, the United States, on July 4, 2012. The battleship USS Iowa arrived in Los Angeles in May and will be permanently stationed in the port and operated as a floating museum. The Iowa was commissioned in 1943. It carried President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to his historic meeting in the Iranian capital Tehran with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin during World War Two. Later in the war, it took part in the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945. The Iowa was decommissioned in 1990 and was later kept in a naval center in Rhode Island before it was towed through the Panama Canal to Northern California. It will become the only battleship museum on the U.S. West Coast when it opens on July 7. (Xinhua/Yang Lei)

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