In a word, no, the U.S. Navy is not reactivating the USS Missouri. The rumor that this Iowa-class battleship, first launched in 1944, surfaced on social media a few years ago, and a nasty case of the ...

Ryan Pivoney/News Tribune photo: Charles Machon, director of the Museum of Missouri Military History, guides sailors from the USS Missouri attack submarine to a display on the submarine Monday.

Courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The USS Missouri at the moment it was about to be hit by a Japanese A6M Zero Kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on April 11, 1945.

Eighty years ago, on April 11, 1945, the USS Missouri was involved with the Battle of Okinawa when kamikaze pilot Setsuo Ishino slammed his plane into the Mighty Mo’s side.

Rhode Island native John DeLeo served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is one of the last living witnesses to the Japanese surrender.

The General Douglas MacArthur Foundation will commemorate the 80th anniversary of WWII's end aboard the Wisconsin on ...

Standing in the halls of the Missouri Capitol, a small crew of sailors heard stories of train robbers, frontiersmen and competing state leadership amid the American Civil War.

Japan Coast Guard Cmdr. Yuichi Kajiya and his son drop flower pedals off the side of the USS Missoui during a ceremony Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and ...