[The strongest figure shown to the world] Four Iowa-class battleships were commissioned during World War II as the largest and last battleships in the U.S. Navy. Among them, the third ship, the Missouri, was commissioned in June 1944. ｡Missouri, which was deployed in the Pacific Theater, was transferred to various places including support missions for Iwo Jima and Okinawa capture operations, and also carried out naval gunfire on the Japanese mainland.After the end of the war, she entered Tokyo Bay at the end of August 1945, and 9 It carved its name into history as the stage for the signing ceremony of the Instrument of Surrender on August 2nd.The Missouri remained on active duty even after the war, and was quickly dispatched to the Korean War when it broke out in 1950.Afterwards, it was transferred to the reserves. However, in 1986, she was modernized and recommissioned with Tomahawk cruise missiles, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, Vulcan Phalanx, etc. She sortied into the 1991 Gulf War with her sister ship Wisconsin, firing 28 missiles on the first day of the war. It launched Tomahawk missiles. It fired a total of more than 750 16-inch main gun shells to support ground forces. The Missouri was retired in March 1992, ending its long history of about half a century since its commissioning. It is currently open to the public as a commemorative ship at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.