The USS Missouri will mark the 75th anniversary of its launching and the 20th anniversary of it becoming a museum Saturday during Living History Day. Military members, kamaaina and Battleship Missouri ...

Launched in 1944, the USS Missouri (or "Mighty Mo") is best known for hosting a meeting between Allied and Axis representatives that led to Japan's surrender and the end of World War II. After the war ...

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Seventy-five years after the USS Missouri was commissioned, the battleship where World War II came to an end is getting its own stamp, the U.S. Postal Service announced Friday. The Mighty Mo will ...

A day of profound global significance — the formal end of World War II — occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Japan officially surrendered in what signaled a hard-won ...

State, county and city officials celebrated the 75th anniversary of the commissioning of the battleship USS Missouri BB-63 on Tuesday in Jefferson City. The USS Missouri BB-63 was commissioned June 11 ...

At top, Lee Broussard, middle, former USS MIssouri crewman and World War II veteran, shook hands Sunday with Kahu Kordell Kekoa as fellow crewman Edgar Buffman stands at left during a ceremony for the ...