When the USS Missouri was laid down in 1941, tensions in the Pacific were nearly about to peak. Notably, the Mighty Mo was the final battleship to be commissioned by the U.S. Navy. During its ...

A special exhibit aboard the battleship USS Missouri has a heart-wrenching perspective on what it is like for a fighter pilot ...

In a solemn ceremony aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial ... the kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and the unexpected act of compassion that followed—the burial at sea of the fallen ...

The Battleship Missouri Memorial is located next to Central O'ahu's USS Arizona Memorial. Standard admissions cost $37.99 for adults and $18.99 for kids ages 4 to 12. Note: travelers can purchase ...

Japan Coast Guard Cmdr. Yuichi Kajiya and his son drop flower pedals off the side of the USS Missoui during a ceremony Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and ...

Exhibit A: the Navy’s colossal fumbling of the USS Iowa turret explosion thirty ... Unwilling to admit that battleship guns or ordnance might be defective—or that rule-breaking may have ...

On April 11, 1945, Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was piloting a Zero fighter carrying a 500-kilogram ...

Also attending will be about 65 to 70 Navy veterans who served on the battleship USS ... Navy veteran who served on the USS Iowa BB-61’s sister ship, the USS Missouri, and a post commissioning ...

The U.S. Navy welcomed a new USS Iowa into its service this weekend. The new nuclear submarine, SSN-797, was commissioned on Saturday, April 5, not in Iowa, but at the Naval Submarine Base New ...