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Men, One Blast: The USS Iowa's Silent Cover-Up
Men, One Blast: The USS Iowa's Silent Cover-Up
Fear and disbelief: a captain canceled a $1,000,000 gun repair, 47 men stood inside a turret, and a 2,500-3,000°F fireball erupted when the center gun fired without an order - so how did the Navy end the investigation with no charges and no apology?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events aboard the USS Iowa on April 19, 1989, and the decisions made before and after the blast that shaped the official outcome. Listen to the facts about the ship’s condition, the unauthorized experiments, and the disputed forensic findings that leave the…
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