Hundreds of sailors and their loved ones got an early Christmas present when the USS Cole docked at its home port in Norfolk, Virginia after seven months at sea.

Commissioned in 1943, the USS Iowa is the last class of battleships in the world. She was built to be heavily armored and fast to fight the Axis powers in the war.

The grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and three WWII veterans gathered aboard the Battleship USS Iowa on Saturday, Dec. 7, to commemorate the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor.