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158 USS Illinois: Why The Doomed Iowa-Class Battleship Was Never Deployed

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SlashGear · 10/18/2025 15:00 EDT

USS Illinois: Why The Doomed Iowa-Class Battleship Was Never Deployed

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its siblings at sea. Here's why.

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