USS Missouri battleship launched....
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January 30, 1944
THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 30, 1944
* USS Missouri battleship is launched (Big Mo)
* Eventual spot for signing the peace treaty (WWII)
This 70+ page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "World's Greatest Warship Is Launched in Brooklyn" and "45,000 Ton Missouri Is Fourth of Class--Truman Urges That She 'Avenge the Slaughter of Heroes of Bataan"
Text continues inside with related photo. Nice to have in this famous NYC title.
This issue contains other news, sports, and advertisements of the day throughout with much on World War II. This rag edition is in great condition.
wikipedia notes: USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy Iowa-class battleship, and was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship built by the United States, and was 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, and she fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. She 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 fought in the 1991 Gulf War.
Missouri received a total of eleven battle stars for service in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and was finally decommissioned on 31 March 1992, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register until her name was struck in January 1995. In 1998 she was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
* USS Missouri battleship is launched (Big Mo)
* Eventual spot for signing the peace treaty (WWII)
This 70+ page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "World's Greatest Warship Is Launched in Brooklyn" and "45,000 Ton Missouri Is Fourth of Class--Truman Urges That She 'Avenge the Slaughter of Heroes of Bataan"
Text continues inside with related photo. Nice to have in this famous NYC title.
This issue contains other news, sports, and advertisements of the day throughout with much on World War II. This rag edition is in great condition.
wikipedia notes: USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy Iowa-class battleship, and was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship built by the United States, and was 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, and she fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. She 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 fought in the 1991 Gulf War.
Missouri received a total of eleven battle stars for service in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and was finally decommissioned on 31 March 1992, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register until her name was struck in January 1995. In 1998 she was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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