USS Missouri
World War Two Pacific 1945
This is a nice reproduction of an original WW2 photograph the US Battleship USS Missouri BB-63 underway in 1945. Size is about 4" x 6".
USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo")
is a United States Navy Iowa-class
battleship and was the third ship of the
U.S. Navy to be named in honor of the US state of Missouri.
Missouri was the last battleship commissioned by the United States and
was the site of the surrender of the Empire of
Japan which ended World War II.
Missouri was ordered
in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. In the Pacific
Theater of World War II she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
and shelled the Japanese home islands, and she fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. She was
decommissioned in 1955 into the United States Navy
reserve fleets (the "Mothball Fleet"), but reactivated and
modernized in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy
plan, and provided fire support during Operation
Desert Storm in January/February 1991. Missouri received a total of 11 battle
stars for service in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and
was finally decommissioned on 31 March 1992, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register until her name was struck
in January 1995. In 1998, she was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial
Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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