06/12/2026
Sometimes morale breaks long before the line does.
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06/12/2026
USS Missouri (BB-63), helicopter picking up officer from the battleship’s deck.
U.S. Navy Photograph, USN 705710.
Photograph filed January 10, 1949.
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They planned for a missing carrier. Yorktown showed up anyway.
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The U.S. Navy battleships USS Mississippi (BB-41), foreground, and USS Idaho (BB-42) during their modernisation refit at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia (USA), on 30 May 1933.
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Fires a salvo from the forward 16"/50 gun turret, during her shakedown period, circa August 1944.
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The shotgun was deadly in the Pacific, but not the miracle weapon people imagine. What’s your favorite Pacific Theater weapon?
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Aerial view of warships at the base piers of Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia (USA), circa August 1944. Among them are:
the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), the largest ship;
the battlecruiser USS Alaska (CB-1), on the other side of the pier;
the es**rt carrier USS Croatan (CVE-25), and two destroyers, a Fletcher-class destroyer at the pier and a Clemson/Wilkes-class-destroyer moored outboard.
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Imagine surviving the enemy, only to be killed by your own shot.
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Underway off the U.S. east coast, 11 April 1944. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-11.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
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Spectators and photographers pick vantage spots on the deck of the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay, to witness the formal...
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