USS Missouri BB 63 - The Mighty Mo 

Spent 2 years on the Wisconsin BB 64 with the Marine Detachment 88-90 these ships are incredible. Semper Fi!

11:23 this is a fever dream. 4 of the absolute most beautiful ships ever made all together. Brings tears to my eyes.

Thanks for this video, as a former crewmember of the Mighty Mo during Desert Shield/Storm it was a nice overview of her history. Also , if you have a chance to visit her at Pearl, and you go to the starboard side (at Pearl she is tied up on the port side), just aft of turret three, look over the side and you can see the dent in her armor from the Kamikaze hit.

I had the chance to go on board in 1988 in Sydney when “ Mo “ visited Sydney Australia. I was lucky that I had a private visit and was given a tour of the ship. A very memorable experience. The crew that I spoke to were extremely proud of their ship, its place in history and the purpose it played in keeping the world safe. I have since visited the Mo at Pearl Harbour on two occasions as it stands guard over the USS Arizona, what a humbling and moving tribute to the sailors who lost their lives on 7 December 1941. A great video.

My favorite Battleship The Mighty MO!

If you removed the aft turret and built up the aft portion of the ship, the Iowas could make for one hell of an LHA that brings its shore bombardment capability with it.

Orr La Con.

My grandfather served on this ship. He pulled the trigger for the 16" guns. I miss hearing the stories 😞

The Iowa class battle ships are still some of the biggest badasses the navy has,even to this day.

I saw her in Pearl she has a fittimg retirement screening for the honored dead of the Arizona.

Being a veteran from Missouri and now living in Arizona, it is a massive honor that the ship named for where I grew up is,watching over the Arizona, named for where I now reside. HUA.

Magnificent vessel. I remember a film critic watching the film "under siege" and saying the biggest star in that movie was the ship. Id have to agree with him

I enlisted in the Navy on The USS Missouri while it was tied up in Pearl Harbor, last century.

That's a bloody good video of the Missouri's life. Thanks for that mate.

Out of all the money that congress waste I don't understand why 1 or 2 of the mighty ships can be put back into service and do world tours, this ships are the Goliath's of yesteryear. We have given enough money to Ukraine to support these ships for 50 years +

Visited the Mo in Hawaii. A good late friend of mine served on board the Great Ship as a Navy man how I miss that dirty SOB. May the Lord bless and protect him. Go Navy

The main guns can hit a 55 gallon drum from 56 miles away using Rocket assist shells. My source?❤ My father put the Iowa back into commission for Korea and served on her for 12 years. ❤ He retired as Chief of the Boat DD-825 Carpenter 1966-1970 when he retired. The U.S.S. Carpenter was a requested escort for the recovery of the Apollo 11 in 1969.

Been there, what a great ship !

"Thanks Mo"

Not sure why they show so much of the USS Missouri BB 63 in WW2 for: The USS Missouri BB 63 was not in WW2 until Jan 1945. The older battleships & older cruisers did the majority of the Island bombardment in the Pacific.The newer Battleships screened the aircraft carriers. My dad who passed in 2017 at 92 years old was a S1c on a 20 mm twin mount on the USS Louisville CA 28 which had 13 battle stars for her WW2 service. USS Louisville Delivered Halsey staff of 150 to USS Missouri on May 15, 1945 at Guam. I toured the mothballed USS Missouri BB 63 and saw the USS New Jersey BB 62 in Bremerton, Wash. in 1978.

My uncle was lieutenant Jack Fitzpatrick, on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. A great man, indeed…😊

I'm curious on what you could dig up on AN-17 Chinquapin. She was a small ship, a net tender originally laid down as "Fir" and participated in the battles of Tinian, Siapan, and Guam based out of the Tiburon depot.

I toured USS Missouri in 1984 while she was a museum ship in Bremerton WA. My brother served on her during the first Gulf War.

As a kid, I toured this ship while it was docked in Bremerton. Very impressive.

I remember watching her steam into pearl w my dad(a snior chief GM) in the early 80s. Still have the vhs my dad recorded of her.

Makes today ships look like crap!

I DID enjoy this video. Thank you.

I just want to extend my appreciation for the service these ships and mostly their crew have given freely. Many gave all. There's too much metal at the ocean floor and too many men lost at sea. Wonderful post. Should be part of American History curriculum in all public High schools. Again, thank you for your sacrifice.

THE AT-TE WALKER OR ALL TERRAIN TACTICAL ENFORCER

Awesome clip ! Many thanks 😊

For all those commenters here who have generously served. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE !!!!!!!!!!!

The ship that hosted the surrender of Japan, has a final call of duty to protect and stand guard over the ship and crew lost at the beginning of WWII for America. A fitting final chapter to the Mighty Mo's story.

As did @vassotsolakis8599 in 1988 I remember going aboard the Mighty Mo (not lucky enough for a private tour), but just to set foot aboard such an iconic ship and to see the spot where the end of WW2 was signed, is something I'll never forget, and the IOWA's are such an impressive ship....even now all 4 serving as museums is a standing testament to their significance in history and the part they played!!!! Cheers from Sydney Aus!!!! 🍻🍻🍻🍻

سفن عجيبة و تكنولوجيا مبدعة و لكن ما الحكمة من بناء 3 ابراج ب 9 مدافع عملاقة الا يكفي 3 مدافع هل يعني انها ممكن ان تطلق 9 مدافع في وقت واحد ام انه كل مدفع يضرب مره واحده و يستخدم الاخر

Named after my home state, there's no ship on this earth(aside from the Enterprise) that is more recognized than MO. She is one of the greatest ships ever built by the navy and im glad she wasnt dismantled like they had her slated to be(yes they were gonna destroy a literal piece of history dunno what made them change their mind). I know she's happy where she is as much as id rather have her up here on the Mississippi River. At least as of April 1st, her job as sentinel of the broken harbor had finally been completed as Arizona and her crew passed on following the passing of the last survivor. Now she watches over the sleeping harbor as the embers of its once burning fires, unseen to us, flicker in the night sky Oh and me and my dad both tend to call her a BFB or big fucking boat(out of respect of course) And as a random side note, prior to April 1st,2024 anytime I saw an image of Arizona's monument I would break down and cry. After April 1st however, knowing she finally at peace and sleeping, I found out that seeing an image of MO overlooking the monument made me break down. Odd isn't it

Every instance where someone tried to hit the Missouri is marked by a GIGANTIC permanent crater in the location of the previously offending gun. I wonder how big a hole fifty 16" rounds would make fired at the same spot?

You forgot that in 2012, she was temporarily commandeered by the surviving crew of an Arliegh Burke class destroyer that was sunk by aliens. She was used to confront the aliens as she was the only remaining asset behind the force barrier the aliens had erected. After a long protracted and vicious battle with the other worldly invaders in true "Mighty Mo" fasion she emerged battered but victorious!

The USS Wisconsin BB 64 was the last Iowa class battleship not the Missouri.

I knew a gentleman that served on the USS West Virginia and he told me that the Japanese surrender was originally supposed to be aboard the WV but bc Truman was from Missouri they changed it over for him. Not sure how true that was

On your home page is a famous picture of a quad 40 crew in action, which I use to think was on the Missouri. But I'm curious if anyone would know the name of the phone talker screaming into his sound powered phone. That dude and the whole crew have been pictured in many books.

Saw her beauty veiled in the early morning mist in Vancouver Harbour on her last ride. My head cautions that the sleek lethality and 16-inch guns are a mirage in a new era, but my heart knows otherwise.

I served on the Missouri from 1988 to 1990 as part of the MarDet (Marine Detachment) Best duty station i ever had.

That was in a movie she in in Pearl as a museum she was reactive to destroy the alien ship she was rescued from total destruction by air force who was outside of the shield the aliens put up the movie was Battleship rear gun turrant was destroyed

What makes this ship so special anyway? USS New Jersey is the one that sank an island and who served the longest.

We lost two great carriers uss wasp.cv7 and her sister ship the hornet rest in peace to the sailors who served on the wasp and hornet

My dad was on that ship UUS Missouri he fought in the Korean war

At 2:23 you said 9 16 inch 50 caliber guns? No, it luanched small cars,lol. Did nobody else catch that ? Thank you for the video, I was able to call for fire on San Clemente island for the mighty Mo guns qualifications. SEMPER FIDELIS

I don't understand why cut all the battleships from the fleet? All 4 iowa class ships were litterally bullet proof missouri bb-63 has proven that time and time again todays ships called destroyers are nice and all but they don't have as many weapons and in my opinion they are weak compared to the battleships i to this day think most of our enemies feared the battleships,can they ever put missouri back into the fleet? Or once it is taken off list and donated it can never go back?

Some day I hope I can tour that big beautiful ship

i do hope she would be commission again....

Probably the most overrated US warship of all time. She never played a role in a naval battle of any kind, not even serving in a minor role. Her career consisted entirely of secondary roles like shore bombardment and carrier escorting, never once facing an enemy warship. Hotel Yamato sank more ships than her, and in fact the entire Iowa class, sinking a few escort carriers and destroyers off Samar. In sharp contrast, USS Massachusetts and USS Washington both saw key roles in naval battles, during which they both fought and sank enemy capital ships. Massachusetts served in the battle of Casablanca, engaging the incomplete but battleworthy battleship Jean Bart which was engaging various US cruisers with her 15-inch guns. They exchanged fire, and seven 16-inch shells from Big Mammie hit Jean Bart, sinking her in port by the stern and disabling her main guns. Shells from Massachusetts that missed Jean Bart sank the destroyer Le Malin, three troop ships, and a cargo ship and destroyed various land targets. She then targeted various Vichy French warships attacking US cruisers, sinking the light cruise Primauguet and the destroyers Fougueux, Milan, and Fondour, and a floating dry dock while taking an 8-inch shore battery shell and several 6-inch cruiser shells. Washington served in the battle of Okinawa alongside the battleship South Dakota, firing on a Japanese destroyer line at 18,000 yards where she sank the destroyer Ayanami. South Dakota’s power went out after that, and as it came back online she came under fire from the battlecruiser Kirishima and the heavy cruisers Takao and Atago, taking two 14-inch shells and six 6-inch shells from South Dakota herself and sixteen 8-inch shells from the cruisers, as well as two 5-inch shells from unknown warships. However, Washington went undetected and closed to 5,800 yards and fired away, crippling Kirishima with twenty 16-inch shells and seventeen 5-inch shells, firing on various cruisers and destroyers, damaging Atago as Kirishima limp away at a couple of knots, succumbing to her winds and sinking the next morning. Washington was sadly scrapped in the 1950, but Massachusetts is preserved in Battleship Cove in Fall River Massachusetts, the largest collection of naval warships in the world, preserved alongside a Gearing class destroyer, a submarine, a Soviet era missile cruiser, and two PT boats.

The cost of running these ships is enormous BUT you Americans should be grateful that all four of these vessels still exist along with the North Carolina the Texas and a Heavy cruiser to boot DO YOU KNOW WHAT BRITAIN PRESERVED absolutely NOTHING When rail guns are perfected a battleship hull would be the ideal venue

My old man was on the Iowa and Missouri

In this video the USS MISSOURI saw her last action in the middle east and since then she was taken out of service in SAN DIEGO and she currently is in PEARL HARBOR next to the USS ARIZONA and I have seen pictures but you have new battle ships being built and air craft carriers in Norfolk Virginia and 2 battle ships in the middle east and 2 more battle groups in SOUTH CHINA SEA as I follow the news and if NORTH KOREA does anything NATO is ready as SOUTH KOREA Japan and the Philippines and Australia are on alert.

Did she ever sink an enemy battleship? Oh, no, that was USS Washington, BB56. Still a great ship, though.

I had the great pleasure of setting foot on her deck with my dad. I was curious, as a kid, why it was wood. I was told that steel buckles and wood gives. It was her last cruise. She called to port in Portland, Oregon on her way to mothballs, then the gulf war happened and she sailed again.

We need her again right now in the ME.

SALUTE TO ALL WHO SAILED HER.

My neighbor Lucien Proulx was a Plank Owner and served on the "Mo" throughout WWII. He gifted me Ship Newsletters of her passing through the Panama Canal and later V-J Day Ceremonies. In fact he was pictured among the sailors watching the signing above the aft superstructure. His quad was the unit impacted and tube speared that you have also pictured. Serving aboard "Bull" Halsey's Flagship made a great tour, save the constant bombardment of Okinawa for six weeks. "It really got to you", he remarked. A great remembrance of this WWII Kid!

Why ? They’re sitting ducks what happened to Bismarck, Musashi and Yammoto

Served 87 till 91

212,000 HP! imagine that much HP in a Jimny!

What a beauty.

I went on the Mighty Mo when she docked in Fremantle Western Australia years ago.

Such an awesome ship. My first time to Hawaii had to see it. Totally cool.

I was stationed on the Mo in 1989 till she was decommissioned in 1992.

The Battleships were and still are the most deadly ships to sail the oceans. They are just as deadly as a Ballistic Submarine

Excellent history. Thank you.

Right On that was awesome

The world's most awsome and awarded battleship EVER AND NEEDS TO BE TOTALLY UPDATED WITHE HER MISSLE CAPABILLITY. SHE COULD BE MADE TO OPERATE EFFECTIVLY WITH MUCH LESS PERSONALL TO OPERATE HER DRAMATICALLY!!

They are better off where they are

Daddy's baby boy 😮

A beautiful beast

❤. Thank You. ❤

Loved it would like more interior shots

My father was a CWO4 and the Chief Carpenter of the Missouri in the late 40s and early 50s. He received a commendation for his work during the grounding in 1950. He retired in 1960.

Darn this ship deffinetly served her term in service a lot further than other's. Almost sounded like a few generation's of Navy sailor's served their term's of service on her.