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Saturday, December 07, 2013

Tour the battleship USS Missouri

From World War II, through Korea, the Cold War, and Desert Storm, the Missouri served her country for 48 years. Take a photo tour of this incredible battleship.


USS Missouri(Credit: Geoffrey Morrison)
She's 887 feet long, displaces 45,000 tons. She's sailed all around the world and served her country for decades. She's the Mighty Mo, the USS Missouri, and her tale starts while the world was at war, and continues to this day as a piece of distinguished history.

Pearl Harbor anniversary of bombing marked with ceremony - A Day that lives in Infamy - Dec 7, 1941

Updated at 12:56 PM today

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Saturday marks the 72nd anniversary of the attack that brought the United States into World War II. (AP File Photo)
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Saturday marks the 72nd anniversary of the attack that brought the United States into World War II. (AP File Photo)(AP Photo)
AP  
About 2,500 people were gathering Saturday at Pearl Harbor to remember those killed in the 1941 Japanese attack that launched the U.S. into World 
War II.

May they rest in Peace.