USS Missouri

The USS Missouri (BB-63) (nicknamed "Mighty Mo") is a former battleship of the United States Navy and belongs to the Iowa class . It was commissioned in 1944 and took part in the Pacific War from 1945. On September 2, 1945, history was made on the Missouri when the political and military representatives of Japan surrendered on the foredeck, thus ending the Second World War. From 1950, the battleship was deployed in the Korean War and was then assigned to the reserve fleet. It remained there until 1984 and was then used, heavily modernized, in the Second Gulf War.