USS Missouri (BB63)
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N 21° 21.722 W 157° 57.207
4Q E 608506 N 2362577
Located in Pearl Harbor. Purchase tickets and ride the trolley to Ford Island next to the Arizona Memorial and USS Bowfin visitors center. Be sure to take the H1 exit "Arizona Memorial, Stadium" NOT the PEARL HARBOR EXIT.
Waymark Code: WM11QD
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 12/17/2006
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From Wikipedia.com:
The third USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy battleship, notable as the final battleship to be built by the United States and the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
She was one of the Iowa-class "fast battleship" designs planned in 1938 by the Preliminary Design Branch at the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Missouri was ordered on 12 June 1940 and her keel was laid at the New York Navy Yard in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on 6 January 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1944 and commissioned on 11 June. The ship was the fourth of the Iowa class and the final battleship commissioned by the US Navy. The ship was christened at her launching by Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S. Truman, then a senator from Missouri.
During World War II, Missouri saw action at the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, and shelled the Japanese home islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. Missouri fought in the Korean War, then was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets in 1955. She was recommissioned in the 1980s, and refitted with modern armaments. In 1991, she participated in the Gulf War.
Type of vessel: Iowa class battleship
Hours of use: From: 9:00 AM To: 5:00 PM
Admission? Cost?: $16 adults and $8 for children under 12
Date: 12/17/2006
Parking Coordinates: Not Listed
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