A photographic timeline of America’s mightiest naval vessel, the beloved USS Missouri.
- A Japanese Zero fighter hit “Mighty Mo” off the waters of Okinawa in 1945, but could only leave a dent.
- Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender to officially end the war with Japan aboard the USS Missouri, September 2, 1945.
- The USS Missouri in the Panama Canal making her way back to the east coast, after World War II ended in the Pacific.
- The USS Missouri firing in the South China Sea during the Korean War.
- The modernization of the USS Missouri in 1985 at dry dock in Long Beach, California
- The recommissioning ceremony of the USS Missouri in San Francisco, California.
- The USS Missouri after completed modernization and recommissioning.
- The USS Missouri fires a Tomahawk missile in the Persian Gulf, one of her may upgrades during the modernization process.
- “Mighty Mo” firing during Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf.
- The USS Missouri being guided through Pearl Harbor by tugs to become a museum ship, 1998.
- Perspective of the massive guns sets in much more with people in the shot.
- The USS Missouri where she rests proud today, at Pearl Harbor.