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Battleships face final museum battles on Capitol Hill
The four Iowa class battleships, New Jersey, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, linger in mothball status as states seek to turn them into museums. Senate committee will debate freeing New Jersey for a waterfront museum, potentially moving Iowa to San Francisco. Missouri heads to Pearl Harbor as a WWII memorial.
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Washington
America
Congress
Missouri
Pearl Harbor
New Jersey
Iowa
Wisconsin
Capitol Hill
Senate Armed Services Committee
San Francisco
William L. Stearman
U.S. Naval Fire Support Association
Arizona
United States
Navy
Bremerton
Wash
Norfolk
Hudson River
John Warner
R-Va
Armed Services Comms
Fisherman’s Wharf
Warner
Arthur Hoffman
San Francisco Group
Historic Ships Memorial
Pacific Square
Larry Seaquist
The
Delaware River
Piladelphia Navy Base