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The battleship explosion the Navy tried to blame on a dead sailor

In April 1989, an explosion inside USS Iowa’s Turret Two killed 47 sailors during a gunnery exercise and turned one of ...
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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 ...