Korean War, USS Missouri Salvo, 1950
Captioned: "The USS Missouri fires 16-inch shell into enemy lines at Hungnam. A 16-inch 3-gun salvo is on its way to commies." USS Missouri is a United States Navy Iowa-class battleship and was the third ship of the 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 and she fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. As part of the force tasked with covering the UN retreat the Missouri was moved into Hungnam on December 23, 1950 to provide gunfire support about the Hungnam defense perimeter until the last UN troops, the 3rd Infantry Division, were evacuated by way of the sea. She received a total of 11 battle stars for service in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and was finally decommissioned in 1992. In 1998, she was donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Photograph credited to USN December 26, 1950.
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