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USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship and was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship commissioned by the United States and is best remembered as the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan, which ended World War II.

Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. In the Pacific Theater of World War II, she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands. She later fought in the Korean War during two tours between 1950 and 1953. She was the first US battleship to arrive in Korean waters and served as the flagship for several admirals. She took part in numerous shore bombardment operations in support of military actions and also served in a screening role for aircraft carriers. Missouri was decommissioned in 1955 into the United States Navy reserve fleets (the "Mothball Fleet"), but reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, and provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_(BB-63)





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