The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). The reason for choosing the ship is simpler ...

Summary: The preservation of historic battleships, such as the USS Missouri (BB-63) and the USS New Jersey (BB-62), ...

While everyone is familiar with the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb on an enemy during warfare, very few ...

Over the last 14 years, more than 48,000 square feet of the main teak deck on the Battleship Missouri Memorial was restored ...

2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. It’s known as V-J Day ...

The USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States, has emerged after 14 years with a $6 million restoration of ...

The historic battleship U-S-S Missouri sits in Pearl Harbor, as a memorial to the end of WWII in the Pacific. However, it has ...

The Portland-class USS Indianapolis ... ship in 1941. The Missouri served in the Pacific theater in the assault on Iwo Jima and the Japanese islands before arriving in Tokyo Bay, where it hosted ...

The USS Ronald Reagan recently steamed out of Tokyo Bay, foreshadowing its final, impending departure from U.S. 7th Fleet.

Launched in 1944, the USS Missouri (or "Mighty Mo") is best known for hosting a meeting between Allied and Axis representatives that led to Japan's surrender and the end of World War II.

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Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is back in the Red Sea and has been deployed for more than 200 days, ...