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Updates from Jonathan Williams

Jonathan Williams is the President & CEO of the Pacific Battleship Center, home of the Battleship IOWA, LA Fleet Week, and the National Museum of the Surface Navy. A purpose-driven leader and storyteller, he shares updates and insights from one of the nation’s most innovative nonprofit organizations. His writing explores leadership, community, and culture — connecting lessons from the deck plate to the boardroom while highlighting the people, progress, and purpose that continue to drive the mission forward.

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CEO Update 3 September 2021

by | Sep 3, 2021 | ,

Friends and Supporters: Today (September 2nd) my thoughts are surrounding the seventy-sixth anniversary of the end of WWII aboard the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. My connection to the USS Iowa began twenty-one years ago when I visited USS Missouri with my grandfather, as he mourned the loss of his wife of fifty-nine years. He was a plank owner aboard the USS Missouri in 1943 and served as a Water Tender First Class through the end of the war in...

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