USS Missouri (BB-63)

USS Missouri was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. She fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands. She was decommissioned in 1955 but was reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part...