31 March 1992 A.D. USS “Mighty Mo” MISSOURI (BB-63) Decommissioned
31 March 1992 A.D.
USS “Mighty Mo” MISSOURI
(BB-63) Decommissioned
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1854 - Commodore Matthew C. Perry and Japanese
officials sign the Treaty of Kanagawa, opening trade between U.S. and Japan.
The treaty also provided protection for American merchant seamen wrecked in
Japanese waters.
1917 - Rear Adm. James H. Oliver takes possession of the Danish West Indies for the United States, and they are renamed the U.S. Virgin Islands. He also becomes the first governor of the islands under American control.
1945 - USS Morrison (DD 560) and USS Stockton (DD 646) sink the Japanese submarine I 8, 65 miles southeast of Okinawa.
1992 - USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active American battleship, is decommissioned. Commissioned in June 1944, she served during World War II, notably for the location of the official Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945. Today, the "Mighty Mo" is open for visitors in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as the Battleship Missouri Memorial, under the care of the USS Missouri Memorial Association, Inc.
1993 - Two 2 EP-3E aircraft, from Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 2 (VQ-2), are on station over the Adriatic providing crucial support to the delivery of humanitarian air drops over eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina in Operation Provide Promise. This operation becomes the longest running humanitarian airlift in history at the time and operates from February 1993 to January 1996.
1917 - Rear Adm. James H. Oliver takes possession of the Danish West Indies for the United States, and they are renamed the U.S. Virgin Islands. He also becomes the first governor of the islands under American control.
1945 - USS Morrison (DD 560) and USS Stockton (DD 646) sink the Japanese submarine I 8, 65 miles southeast of Okinawa.
1992 - USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active American battleship, is decommissioned. Commissioned in June 1944, she served during World War II, notably for the location of the official Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945. Today, the "Mighty Mo" is open for visitors in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as the Battleship Missouri Memorial, under the care of the USS Missouri Memorial Association, Inc.
1993 - Two 2 EP-3E aircraft, from Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 2 (VQ-2), are on station over the Adriatic providing crucial support to the delivery of humanitarian air drops over eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina in Operation Provide Promise. This operation becomes the longest running humanitarian airlift in history at the time and operates from February 1993 to January 1996.
1992 – USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active
American battleship is decommissioned. USS Missouri (BB-63) (“Mighty Mo” or
“Big Mo”) is a United States Navy Iowa-class battleship and was the third ship
of the U.S. Navy to be named in honor of the US state of Missouri. Missouri was
the last battleship commissioned 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 provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in
January/February 1991. Missouri received a total of 11 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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