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Shirley Casady, right from Chesapeake, Va. holds photo of her husband William, 94, sitting in wheelchair, who served on the Iowa during WWII as chief electrician in 1943 during the commissioning ceremony for the battleship as a memorial and an educational museum at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, Calif., on Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The ship, built in 1940, arrived in Los Angeles in May and will be permanently stationed in the port and operated as a floating museum.
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In this historic image, guns fire aboard the USS Iowa.
Steven Louie / NBC News
Members of the military stand aboard the battleship USS Iowa as it approaches its new home in San Pedro, Calif.
Steven Louie / NBC News
A view of the bow of the USS Iowa.
Steven Louie reports in the Daily Nightly blog that the USS Iowa will become a museum in San Pedro, Calif.:
"It brightened my life," said Alfred Hodder, who served on the Iowa in the ‘50s. "And it's wonderful that it's being made into a permanent museum so the public can understand and enjoy. In those days it was one of the great ships of the sea."
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A historic aerial view of the USS Iowa firing her guns.
The USS Iowa will open its decks to the public this weekend in San Pedro, Calif. NBC's Mike Taibbi reports.
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Some real nice military history there ....
Good use as a museum now ....
Cool ....
Remarkable story for a remarkable ship. Man the rails Iowa Veterans, and please add a thanks to Mike Brown, Gunners Mate, WWII, my Dad. With love from Charleston to all the Iowa Sailors. Fair Winds and Following Seas.
Should have let her sound a report as she entered her last port of call.
It's great to see it being keep as a museum as it should be but saying it's the greatest battleship i don't know about that as the BB 55 USS North Carolina has the most battle stars at 15 of the battleship fleet.