Photo: Robert M. Cieri via
navsource.org
The
New York Navy Yard Shipworker, "The man behind the man behind
the gun," Brooklyn NY, Vol.III, No.10, January 29, 1944: Today Is the Day
She Leaves Ways! Mighty Missouri As Launching Nears ... Workers, Few Guests
to Witness Launching of USS Missouri, Iowa-Class Battleship. In the
right-hand column it says "The first of her history-making class —
the New-York-Navy-Yard-built USS
Iowa — was launched from the
very same ways seventeen months ago."