Battleship dispute revived

Chicago Sun-Times | April 23, 1989 | Copyright

WASHINGTON They are the most heavily armored naval vessels on the seas, equipped with the biggest naval guns in the world.

The blast of a one-ton shell fired by a U.S. battleship leaves a scorched crater in the earth half the size of a football field.

When the rest of the world's navies turned battleships into scrap metal after World War II, the U.S. Navy coated its behemoth vessels in gray, fish oil-based paint and stuffed them with dehumidifiers.

Now, half a decade after President Ronald Reagan resurrected the battleships, the deaths of 47 men inside a gun turret on the Iowa are ...

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