Battleship Missouri Memorial

Crew members man the rail as the USS Missouri passes under the Golden Gate Bridge while en route to San Francisco for its recommissioning in 1986. 🌁

YOGA ANNOUNCEMENT 🧘🌅

The Battleship Missouri Memorial is excited to announce a new yoga series for the summer! Enjoy a unique opportunity to unwind and rejuvenate against the iconic backdrop of Pearl Harbor.

This is a free, donation based yoga series we are offering for our local community on Ford Island and to anyone with base access.

Details about this community event @ the link in bio!

From Our Curatorial Collection 📜

An Independence Day greeting card produced & distributed onboard the USS Oklahoma in 1934. The ship’s crew celebrated the 4th of July in Honolulu that year while on a summer training cruise.

Today, the Battleship Missouri Memorial’s archive stands directly across from the USS Oklahoma Memorial.

📢 New Summer Program: Aloha Fridays!

We invite visitors to take a break from the tour route to explore the new Life After Infamy Exhibit. Enjoy kid-friendly make-and-take activities inspired by the stories told throughout the exhibit.

Fridays, 10am - 1pm | July 19 - August 30

More info on our community events in the link in bio.

🔙 January 7, 2010 — Drydocking Completed!

Following a three month long preservation project at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, the Mighty Mo returned to her berthing at Ford Island.

It’s a beautiful day here at the Battleship Missouri ☀️

Cher’s lead single & music video, “If I Could Turn Back Time” was released 35 years ago in the summer of 1989. 🎤🎸

The Grammy winning singer & actress made the pop rock music video on the USS Missouri while she was in Long Beach, CA.

The video also starred a couple hundred crew members and became a chart topper. Who remembers this iconic performance?!

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People gather on the beach to see the Battleship Missouri (BB 63) enter the channel into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on June 21, 1998. 🚢🌴

Secretary of the Navy, John H. Dalton signed the Donation Agreement on May 4th, allowing the Missouri to be used as a memorial near the USS Arizona Memorial.

We opened to the public as an official Memorial on January 29, 1999.

🎓 Class 001 of the Chief Petty Officer’s Legacy Academy - Sept. 2007

The CPO Legacy Academy brings together Chief Petty Officer Selectees from across the Navy, as well as senior enlisted personnel from other branches of our Armed Forces, to engage in Naval heritage & history aboard the USS Missouri and other historic sites around Oahu.

The main focus of the Legacy Academy is to ingrain the obligation selectees have, to not only lead sailors, but to preserve the traditions & history of the Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy.

This summer we will be hosting CPO Class 024, these participants have been selected by their Commands to attend the Legacy Academy.

The freedom our country enjoys was paid for by the sacrifices of the men and women who, in service to their country, laid down their lives and paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

This is the freedom our nation celebrates on July 4th, Independence Day 2024. 🇺🇸

Can’t beat an aerial bow view of the USS Missouri underway 🚢🌊

(📷 1986)

With RIMPAC underway, we get the privilege of hosting many different groups while they’re in town! 🔱

Today, we welcomed the RIMPAC Chief Senior Enlisted Symposium Group — these men & women are senior enlisted leaders of the various ships currently in port for this year’s maritime exercise.

Spend your weekend at the Mighty Mo, we’re open 8a - 4p Saturday & Sunday!

Adult & Child tickets available at the link in bio 🎟️

Photo dump of yesterday’s unveiling & blessing of our new exhibit. 📸

Thank you to everyone who came!

📢 Open to the public!

Tomorrow’s exhibit opening will have activities for all ages with special guest, Dorinda Nicholson, a child eyewitness to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 and the inspiration behind the American Girl Hawaiian doll, Nanea.

This month’s blog post teases our soon-to-be unveiled new exhibit: Life After Infamy.

Read about it now at the link in our bio!

🎨 Canvas oil painting by artist, Wayne Scarpaci showing Battleship Division 2 off the Virginia Capes in June of 1954.

🔎Can you name the ships in order from front to back?

Battleship Division 2 was the only occasion in history in which all four Iowa-class battleships operated together.

📖 A bit of light reading occupies the spare time of one of the ship’s crew members - circa August 1944.

His booklet is the Public Affairs Committee publication, What About Girls?

🪖 Note the helmets stowed on the 40mm gun tub shield behind the sailor.

🌟New Exhibit Opening June 25th!🌟

Be the first to see our newest exhibit & join us for a day of family activities to celebrate the grand opening.

Plan your visit at the link in our bio!

We’re excited to welcome aboard Keegan, Katherine and Amelia, Radford High School Grads as Tour Guides this summer ☀️

If you’re visiting the Battleship Missouri Memorial, you’ll be in good hands with these three!

Tickets in our bio 🎟️

We’re celebrating the U.S. Army all weekend in honor of their 249th birthday!

U.S. Army active duty, retirees, dependents & veterans can enjoy free access to the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum and free self-guided audio tours and virtual reality experience from Pacific Historic Parks.

Come see us!

A Mighty MOment flashback from 2004! Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne visiting the Battleship Missouri 🤘

We’re feeling good at 80! 🎂🎉

Today we celebrate the Battleship Missouri’s 80th Commissioning Anniversary!

On June 11, 1944 the USS Missouri was officially commissioned for the first time with Capt. William M. Callaghan in command. We’re grateful for the decades of service she’s given us🫡

Saturday hangs with our new friends 👋

These Mexican Naval Academy Cadets are serving on the ARM Cuauhtémoc and have a pit stop in Hawaii

👀 NEW EXHIBIT COMING SOON

Amidst the tumult of WWII, a defining moment of bravery & sacrifice unfolded on the shores of Normandy on June 6th, 1944. Immortalized as D-Day, we pay tribute to the courageous souls who stormed those beaches, forever altering the course of history.

This year the Battleship Missouri will honor the 80th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings at our End of WWII Commemoration. 🌟

Learn more about this year’s ceremony & event details at the link below.

https://ussmissouri.org/events/community-events/end-of-wwii-commemoration

[photo 1] American soldiers wading from Coast Guard landing barge toward the beach at Normandy

[phone 2] birds-eye view of landing craft, barrage balloons, and allied troops landing in Normandy

The end of an era. On May 28th after almost 17 years of service to the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Daniel J. Parsons saluted the ensign during morning colors on the fantail. Dan has been a fundamental component in the establishment of our Education Dept. and has served the ship well. 
 
Exactly 25 years after his Navy retirement on board the USS Missouri, Dan bid his final farewell as he walked down the center pier with his family at his side. Fair Winds and Following Seas Shipmate Dan, congrats on your retirement!

POV: you have a Passport to Pearl Harbor ticket 🎟️, you’re standing in the Ford Island Control Tower ✈️ & you’re about to visit one of the most storied American Warships ever constructed 🚢

Seas the day! 🫡

Happy Aloha Friday from Cub Scouts Pack 3297 & Mighty Mo 💪