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...
by [email protected] | Jul 26, 2010 | Military
Some veterans of the Battleship Missouri are planning a unique gift for the new USS Missouri when it is commissioned Saturday. The United States Navy accepts its newest Virginia-class submarine Saturday, Some of those attending will be men who served on the Battleship...
by [email protected] | Jul 21, 2010 | Military
The next USS Missouri will not be a ship. It will be a boat. That’s what they call a submarine like the new USS Missouri. It will be commissioned in Groton, Connecticut on the 31st. If the new USS Missouri could be dropped into the University of Missouri Tiger...
by [email protected] | Apr 26, 2010 | Military
The next USS Missouri is only weeks away from heading to open water and getting under it. The SSN780, a Virgiinia-class submarine, will be the first Navy ship to carry our state’s names since the fabled BB-63, the World War II-built battleship that was in...
by [email protected] | Dec 6, 2009 | Military
On a chilly and rainy New England December day, the Navy’s newest and most technologically-sophisticed boat has gained a historic name.The 137 members of the crew stood in the open and in the rain on the aft deck of the sub for more than an hour as speaker after...