USS IOWA (BB-61) going to Los Angeles

CONGRATULATIONS Pacific Battleship Center. On 6 Sep 2011 Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus announced that the United States Navy had donated the Battleship USS Iowa to the Pacific Battleship Center, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit on course to turn the ship into a permanent museum and memorial at the Port of Los Angeles.
      Read the press release. You can look at the proposed location of USS Iowa alongside berth 87. She is at center left. A larger image, about 3MB, shows much more detail. For those using a mapping agent, the coordinates are 33° 44' 29.83" N 118° 16' 39.98" W.
      For all of the information on USS Iowa, visit their website.

Welcome aboard the USS Ranger (CVA/CV-61) History and Memorial Website. This site is dedicated to maintaining the history and record of the USS Ranger. On this site you will find not only interesting photographs of Ranger, her crew and aircraft but a wide assortment of facts and information about Ranger and her predecessors.

All information on the site has been provided by someone! If you find something is inaccurate or a record that is not complete, please e-mail the deck boss!

John and Carol Guy have possibly the largest collections of photos of Ranger and her men on the internet. We encourage you to visit their site and to support them.

We have the entire set of Ranger's cruise books are are working on scanning them to make them available to you on CD. DVD will be coming later. The cruise books are in PDF format and appear just as if you had the book in front of you. Six of them are ready to purchase. If your's isn't available, write John to request your book be done.

Lying quietly alongside her sisters, Independence, Kitty Hawk and Constellation, Ranger awaits her fate. Our ship is silent. She was our home for a period of time. She took us to many interesting places over the years. She took us to some places we'd rather forget. Some of our crewmates and friends did not return. Help save her as a memorial; not only to our own but to all who served aboard our sister ships.