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And a new home and new life for a national treasure.

What maybe the greatest battleship ever to hit the high seas. Nightly news begins now.

What may be the greatest American battleship

that ever went out to sea, the USS Iowa!

It was key part of America’s World War II campaign in the Pacific.

It has now made its final voyage and will open to the public this weekend

as an extraordinary museum.

NBC's Mike Taibbi reports from San Pedro, California.

 

When the Iowa was christened명명되다 in August of 1942,

first lady Eeleanor Roosevelt on hand.

There was no hand wringing절망적인over the fact that the battleship era was almost over.

There was still a great war to fight and win.

And the Iowa led the Pacific Fleet in the final engagements개입 leading to Japan’s surrender항복,

young sailors like John Woofen Barger were stunned the moment they joined the crew.

“I couldn't believe the size of that ship!

As a boy, what I get into here?”

What he and 2500 other sailors got into

was the flagship기함 of the last and most powerful class of battleships ever built.

Three football fields long, 58,000 tons, 40 miles an hour speed,

and 16 inch guns with 25-mile range.

 

With the Iowa providing gunships, Japanese resistance yielded항복하다 in one engagement after another

until the wars end in Tokyo bay September 2nd, 1945.

By definition every great ship has not just a history but a personality, too.

You can learn the Iowa's history through all the conventional means. But to get the personality part,

you really have to be here.

And you can be here.

On the Iowa's vast deck, beneath its gun turrets회전포탑,

an FDR stateroom with its costume made bathtub,

because the Iowa is here in San Pedro saved from the scrap heap폐품더미 for one final voyage

to its berth정박 지 as a museum ship.

 

You might hear from younger vets like Mike Tattered

who didn't see war but served during the Iowa's darkest moment in April 1989,

the accidental explosion in turret number 2 that killed 47 men.

”The ship is in my heart.”

And older vets who survived enemy fire

but were haunted to this day by memories of war at its most gruesome섬뜩한.

“After tide came in, there was body out in the water. It was horrible.”

So many stories in this majestic위풍당당한 physical creation,

emblems상징 from the last days of seaborne battleship warfare.

“We're bringing a close to a class of ships that no longer sail the seas.”

When they did, “we felt safe on it.”

a nation felt safer, too. Mike Taibbi, NBC news, San Pedro

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