A few nice flash photo images I found:
O'ahu - Honolulu - Pearl Harbor: USS Missouri - Missouri News Flash
Image by wallyg
This copy of the Missouri News Flash from at sea, off Tokyo on August 15, 1945 reads "EXTRA: Japan Surrenders." To the right are Japanese Occupation currency
The USS-Missouri (BB-63), known as the Mighty Mo or Big Mo, is a United States Navy Iowa-class battleship. Ordered in 1940 and commissioned in 1944, it was the last battleship built by the United States. In the Pacific Theater, she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, before serving as the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan to end World War II. She fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, before being decommissioned in 1955. Reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, the Missouri provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Finally decommissioned in 1992, she remained on the Naval Register until her name was struck in 1995. In 1998, she became a museum ship moored at Foxtrot 5 Pier on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor, U.S. Naval Base National Historic District National Register #66000940 (1966)
lost in thought
Image by arnevossfeldt
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