{"id":7458,"date":"2012-08-06T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2012-08-31T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:00:38","slug":"uss-iowa-already-a-major-superstar-attraction-in-san-pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/uss-iowa-already-a-major-superstar-attraction-in-san-pedro\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Iowa&#8211;Already a Major Superstar Attraction in San Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ussio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>SAN PEDRO, CA&#8211;There&#8217;s a reason more than 45,000 people from around the World climbed aboard the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/uss-iowa.html\">USS Iowa<\/a> within the first month at its new home (Berth 87). You&#8217;ve got to see its astonishing outside, interesting inside and learn the amazing history of this World War II-Korea-Cold War veteran battleship to really appreciate the still sturdy, 70-year-old warrior&#8217;s significance.<\/p>\n<p>Inside its Theatre, you&#8217;ll see an incredible computer-generated film that brings the combat veteran to life. Wargaming.net magnificently recreated the ship&#8217;s role in supporting American landings at Okinawa, Japan in 1945. The company also is developing a Game Room where visitors can guide warplanes to defend the Iowa from enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Walking through the ship, you&#8217;ll see fascinating exhibits and understand why it&#8217;s nicknamed, &#8220;The Battleship of the Presidents&#8221; (FDR, Reagan, Bush). During the Second World War, the senior Bush was a Navy pilot, who said when he looked down and saw the Iowa, it gave he and his fellow flyers confidence in their missions.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/san-pedro-uss-iowa-battleship.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald SAN PEDRO, CA&#8211;There&#8217;s a reason more than 45,000 people from around the World climbed aboard the USS Iowa within the first month at its new home (Berth 87). You&#8217;ve got to see its astonishing outside, interesting inside and learn the amazing history of this World War II-Korea-Cold War veteran battleship to really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}