The Last American Dreadnought

[Talyn]

This amazing original Kodachrome, snapped 80 years ago today, showing the Iowa-class fast battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63) commissioning ceremonies, at the New York Navy Yard, on 11 June 1944.

The last of her class completed (Wisconsin, BB-64, had already commissioned two months prior on 16 April 1944), Missouri would spend the rest of the year in shakedown and spent Christmas Eve ’44 on Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row on her way to the West Pac to get in the show. Just over eight months past that holiday, Missouri would host the formal Japanese surrender to the Allied Powers in Tokyo Bay, ending the conflict.

The Last American Dreadnought

How about this amazing original Kodachrome, snapped 80 years ago today, showing the Iowa-class fast battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63) commissioning ceremonies, at the New York Navy Yard, on 11 June …

laststandonzombieisland.com

Opening to the public in 1999, she has been standing guard over the USS Arizona on Battleship Row for the past 25 years.

The last BB I was on.

Pearl Harbor Memorial - USS Battleship Missouri Memorial

The Battleship Missouri Memorial rests in the heart of Pearl Harbor offering activities and tours to Hawaii's visitors from across the world.

ussmissouri.org

Bonus

90,000 tons of floating hurt

USS Missouri (BB-63) (at left) transferring personnel to USS Iowa (BB-61), while operating off Japan on 20 August 1945. As a young boy in 1984, I stood by with goosebumps in Pascagoula as the crew…

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90,000 tons of floating hurt

USS Missouri (BB-63) (at left) transferring personnel to USS Iowa (BB-61), while operating off Japan on 20 August 1945. As a young boy in 1984, I stood by with goosebumps in Pascagoula as the crew…

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[Bassbob]

I thought this would be about an acoustic guitar.

 

[Cedric]

Made it to the Missouri in 2001. She was complete with the modernized systems for Harpoon and Tomahawk, that is, dressed out for her Gulf War deployment. Several years prior worked with a Gunny who was the NCOIC of the last Marine detachment on the ship. He said it was the best assignment he had.