I don't know where USS Missouri was built,(but I sure am going to
www.devilfinder.com it) I presume to assume some large,very
large,parts of USS Missouri did come down the Mississippi River on
Barges www.bargeamerica.com to wherever she was built.The Great
State of Missiouri (www.hometownfreepress.com MISSOURI) deserves to
have USS Missouri on the St.Louis,Missouri Riverfront.My old buddy was
in the U.S.Navy,he spent four years on the USS Ticonderoga.
www.devilfinder.com USS Ticonderoga
(ok,so I was in the U.S.Army,but U.S.Army travels on it's stomach,we do
the real work,the dirty work grin
cuhulin

wrote:

I don't know where USS Missouri was built,(but I sure am going to
www.devilfinder.com it)

New York Naval Shipyard.

I've was on board the Iowa and the Wisconsin several times when they were in
mothballs in Philadelphia (though we had to sneak on board).

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Good on yer,,, dxAce,,, you salty old U.S.Navy dude.I Salute you,Sir!
One hand snappy Salute,, throw it off like a hot potato.
An old guy was once Horseshoeing a Horse,, that Horse liked to bite him
on his shoulder.He put a hot potato under his shirt,, he cured that
Horse.
cuhulin

dxAce wrote:
wrote:

I don't know where USS Missouri was built,(but I sure am going to
www.devilfinder.com it)

New York Naval Shipyard.

I've was on board the Iowa and the Wisconsin several times when they
were in mothballs in Philadelphia (though we had to sneak on board).

dxAce
Michigan
USA

The story behind the choice of the USS Missouri as the ship used to accept
the Japanese surrender is interesting: FDR had chosen the USS Pennsylvania
for that purpose before he died since there was no USS New York (his state)
and Penn was the nearesty state with a battleship. After FDR died and
Truman became president, Harry changed the designated ship to the USS
Missouri for the obvious reason that he was from that state. Presidential
privilege!

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Brian Denley
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