HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A solemn anniversary and milestone will be observed this week on board the Battleship USS Missouri. Eighty years ago, on April 11, 1945, the USS Missouri was involved with ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly ...

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 bomb ...

Shaker Heights – Jack Sague has a little secret for all the Annapolis guys who've seen the Naval Academy Museum display depicting the September 2, 1945, signing of Japan's surrender aboard the USS ...

Editors note: On Sept. 2, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and many other U.S. and Allied officers accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese at the end of World War II on the USS Missouri. Here ...

Key Point: All of the late American battleship designs combined a grim practicality with a streamlined aesthetic. Because of their length and narrow lines, the Iowas were the pinnacle of the effort.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: USS Missouri entered service in June 1944 and joined Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s Task Force 58 (fast carrier task force) in January 1945. Missouri’s primary mission ...

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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 ...

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 ...

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Carey Callaghan, grandson of the USS Missouri’s Capt. William Callaghan, delivers a keynote address to attendees at a ceremony on Friday honoring the 80th ...

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 the ...