USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. (P) ART157 Nagato was launched on 9th

Nagato was launched on 9th November 1919

L Detachment by Graeme Lothian

based at Hornchurch

rather than established airfields

She was scuttled at the end of the war on 3rd May 1945

USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. (P) ART157 Nagato was launched on 9thDHM931P. USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. BB61 Iowa, was commissioned in February 1943 at the New York Navy yard. her first mission was to the North Atlantic in August 1943 to neutralise the threat of the German Battleship Tirpitz. By early 1944 she joined the Pacific fleet taking part in many of the major battles including Saipan, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. She was re commissioned in 1951 for the Korean war and again in April 1984.