by admin | Jun 17, 2019 | Military, News
The presiding commissioner in mid-Missouri’s Cole County is searching for living crew members of the battleship USS Missouri, who were on the ship during the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. Commissioner Sam Bushman tells Missourinet a major...
by [email protected] | Jul 31, 2010 | Military
The USS Missouri is officially a United States Navy Ship. Hour-long ceremonies at the Naval Submarine Base New London (CT) have transferred the ship from being PCU 780 (Pre Commissioning Unit) to being SSN780, the USS Missouri. You can watch a recording of the full...
by [email protected] | Jul 31, 2010 | Military
Five of the 140 crew members of the new USS Missouri are from the boat’s namesake state. Fire Control Technician Ryan Thruston is one of those five.  He’s been in the Navy since graduating from high school in Jefferson City eight years ago and deciding...
by [email protected] | Jul 30, 2010 | Military
He has spent a good part of the last twenty years under water…and he’s looking forward to more months beneath the waves. Commander Timothy Rexrode is a career submariner whose first boat was built in the 60s. Now he’s in charge of the Navy’s...
by [email protected] | Jul 27, 2010 | Military
He helped fire the 16-inch guns on the battleship Missouri. Today, he’s on his way today to Connecticut to help put the new USS Missouri into service He’ll be 84 on August 7th. Harry Weiss’s memories of his two years on the USS Missouri battleship...
