The US Navy’s four Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were reactivated from reserve to play a ...

When the USS Missouri was laid down in 1941, tensions in the Pacific were nearly about to peak. Notably, the Mighty Mo was the final battleship to be commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri’s Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the ...

According to the Battleship USS Missouri Memorial, the "Mighty Mo" fired a total of 759 rounds from its massive 16-inch guns and 28 cruise missiles for good measure, even destroying rival Iraqi ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but ...

The second USS Missouri (BB-11) was a Maine-class battleship in service from 1900 to 1922. Today, there is another USS Missouri (SSN-780), a Virginia -class submarine commissioned in 2010.

Delaware County Navy veteran Ed Buffman of Upper Providence was on the USS Missouri and saw plenty of action. He returns to the Pacific islands to visit where he served 78 years ago.

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the Battle of Okinawa. Latest U.S.

The USS Missouri, aground, west of Thimble Shoals Light in Chesapeake Bay since 8 a.m. yesterday, ... Causes of the grounding will not be revealed officially, nor action taken, ...

Notably, on September 2, 1945, the teak deck of the USS Missouri (BB-63) served as the historic platform for the formal end of WWII, witnessing Japan’s surrender.

May 23, 1998: USS Missouri is towed from Bremerton, months after taking on its final visitors in the city. Jan. 29, 1999: The Battleship Missouri Memorial opens at Pearl Harbor for the first time.

The USS Missouri at the moment it was about to be hit by a Japanese A6M Zero Kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on April ... A 40mm quad gun mount’s crew is in action in the lower foreground. 5/6.