This magnificent leviathan survived one of the most violent times in human history.Īfter receiving 11 battle stars throughout her career, here she is today - at her final resting place in Pearl Harbour , towering over the islands of Hawaii - as a grim reminder of the horrors of war. She unleashed her wrath on Iraqis in the operation Desert Storm, legend says that her salvos officially announced the dawn of war on terrorism. She participated in diversionary tactics and bombarded enemy positions in the Korean War. She witnessed the end of the great Empire of Japan, as the official and final surrender was being signed aboard her. She ferociously shelled Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the second world war, even on the lands of Japan itself, industrial targets were not safe from her thunderous 16 inch guns. ![]() She's the third and the last ship in the US navy to receive the name of USS Missouri, the last US battleship ever built. ![]() (I originally posted this as a comment on another thread, but I felt that it deserves it's own)įor all the fans of the legendary USS Missouri
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