Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was ...

A solemn anniversary and milestone will be observed this week on board the Battleship USS Missouri.Eighty years ago, on April ...

The hour-long documentary SURRENDER ON THE USS MISSOURI focuses on those who witnessed the official Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945, ending World War II. Through interviews with those who ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Missouri, an iconic Iowa ... and the Gulf War. Notably, Japan's official surrender in 1945 was signed aboard the Missouri. -Equipped with nine 16-inch naval guns ...

Sailors aboard the USS Missouri watch as dignitaries correct an error on the Japanese copy of the Instrument of Surrender. Many of the sailors had spent days cleaning ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. It’s known as V-J Day ...

Launched in 1944, the USS Missouri (or "Mighty Mo") is best known for hosting a meeting between Allied and Axis representatives that led to Japan's surrender and the end of World War II.

2 that year, Japanese government representatives signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in a diplomatic action that formally ended the war. The Japanese ...