On March 31, 1992, the age of the battleship came to a final and complete end, with the decommissioning of the USS Missouri (BB-63), one of the United States Navy’s four Iowa-class vessels that had been constructed during the Second World War. The U.S. Navy had not only been the last operator of a true big-gun battleship, but it has the distinction […]
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