USS Missouri Tribute

[Black Stone]

USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy Iowa-class battleship, and was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship built 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 fought in the 1991 Gulf War.

Missouri received a total of eleven 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.

She's a beauty.

 

[TOPGUN]

Serious power!!

 

[Black Stone]

Serious power!!

Yes, she was a Big Momma with a temper.

 

[TOPGUN]

Yes, she was a Big Momma with a temper.

Iam sure hahahah

 

[TruthSeeker]

They don't make them like her anymore. She is majestic!

 

[Geromix]

Got to agree,she is awesome!

 

[Jihad]

Damn, that seriously looks badass.
What a beauty.

 

[Energon]

The Mighty Mo is an awesome museum; with the Pearl Harbor museum, the USS Bowfin (submarine) museum and the new US Naval Aviation center, it makes for an excellent all-day outing. I highly recommend it for anyone who is planning on visiting Oahu.

 

[ju87]

There's an excellent wallpaper size image of Missouri's sister ship, USS Iowa, firing her main guns on Wikipedia. Sexy indeed .

 

[Super Falcon]

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