Visited the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor last week. In the giant ship's
communication center, I saw an R-390A prominently featured in the radio
stack. This ship was refitted during the 80's for $500 million. I suppose
the Collins was integrated at that time. I have a picture if anyone's
interested.

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Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

They should have taken whatever steps necessary to put the USS Missouri
on the Riverfront in St.Louis,Missouri,even if it meant disasembling
parts of that great Ship and then putting it back together again.
Raise your heads and hold em high!,Mighty Mo is passing by!
cuhulin

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 23:22:11 -0500, wrote:

They should have taken whatever steps necessary to put the USS Missouri
on the Riverfront in St.Louis,Missouri,even if it meant disasembling
parts of that great Ship and then putting it back together again.
Raise your heads and hold em high!,Mighty Mo is passing by!
cuhulin

I visited the Missouri when it was moored in San Francisco. (I think
there were plans to put it there permanently, which might have been a
good tourist attraction - as if SF needs more tourist attractions -
but there were too many antis.)

Of course, most famously, it is where the Emperor of Japan signed the
surrender papers in 1945 ending WWII - Appamatox Court House with
rudders.

(At least the Hiroshima [first] atom bomb probably saved more Japanese
lives [noit to mention the Americans who would have been killed in an
invasion] than the number of people it killed although it was also a
warning to Stalin which, thanks to his spies, he didn't really need.)

Has the Missouri ever actually been to Missouri? Getting a battleship
a thousand or more miles up a river, even the mighty Mississippi
(without taking it apart) must be impossible.

Remember the nom de plume of Samuel Clemens. 12 feet deep (Mark Twain)
was a good depth if you were piloting a riverboat on the Mississippi
in the middle of the 19th century.

I visited the Missouri when it was moored in San Francisco. (I think
there were plans to put it there permanently, which might have been a
good tourist attraction - as if SF needs more tourist attractions -
but there were too many antis.)
I recall the Missouri being moored in SF for a short time. One of the
reasons advanced by the people of that city for not making SF the permanent
home was that in the event of a nuclear missile attack, the Missouri would
be a prime first strike target!!! I was living in the Bay area at the time
and could not believe that this ludicrous argument was put forth.

Ron
It would have been a great tourist attraction.
..

I know St.Louis as well as I know the back o' me hand,as well as I know
me home here in Jackson,Mississippi.I used to have me a girlfriend who
lived in Kirkwood,Missouri.(St.Louis metro area,West/Southside down Big
Bend Blvd) USS Missouri needs to be at the St.Louis Riverfront (I can't
afford to go to Hawaii) so I can step up (I live about 500 miles South
[[South is always best]] of St.Louis) the Mississippi River and visit
(that ain't no hill for a stepper like me to climb) USS
Missouri.Besides,in Hawaii,there aren't nothing mostly but Pineapples.
cuhulin

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
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

www.devilfinder.com USS Missouri Photos Radios

How would y'all like to have a Radio room like that? Check em out.
cuhulin