Editing Iowa-class battleship (section)

=== ''Missouri'' ===
{{main|USS Missouri (BB-63)}}
[[File:KoreanWarNavyGunfire.jpg|thumb|alt=A black-and-white photograph depicting a large gunship sailing toward and slightly to the left of the camera. Guns of various size are visible on the ship, with smoke and flames visible from the turret No. 2 as the gun fires at an unseen target. The pressure from the gun fire has created a disturbance on the water surface.|''Missouri'' fires 16&nbsp;in guns at Chong Jin, Korea, 21 October 1950]]

''Missouri'' was the last of the four ''Iowa''s to be completed. She was ordered 12 June 1940, laid down 6 January 1941, launched 29 January 1944, and commissioned 11 June 1944. ''Missouri'' conducted her trials off New York with shakedown and battle practice in the Chesapeake Bay before transferring to the Pacific Fleet, where she screened US aircraft carriers involved in offensive operations against the Japanese before reporting to Okinawa to shell the island in advance of the planned landings. Following the bombardment of Okinawa, ''Missouri'' turned her attention to the Japanese homeland islands of [[Honshu]] and [[Hokkaido]], performing shore bombardment and screening US carriers involved in combat operations. She became a symbol of the US Navy's victory in the Pacific when representatives of the Empire of Japan boarded the battleship to sign the documents of unconditional [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|surrender]] to the Allied powers in September 1945. After World War II, ''Missouri'' conducted largely uneventful training and operational cruises until suffering a grounding [[1950 USS Missouri grounding incident|accident]]. In 1950, she was dispatched to Korea in response to the outbreak of the Korean War. ''Missouri'' served two tours of duty in Korea providing shore bombardment. She was decommissioned in 1956. She spent many years at [[Puget Sound Naval Shipyard]] in Bremerton, Washington. Reactivated in 1984, as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, ''Missouri'' was sent on operational cruises until being assigned to [[Operation Earnest Will]] in 1988. In 1991, ''Missouri'' participated in Operation Desert Storm, firing 28 Tomahawk Missiles and 759 16-inch shells at Iraqi targets along the coast.{{sfnm|Polmar|2001|1p=129|Stillwell|1996|2p=327}} Decommissioned for the last time in 1992, ''Missouri'' was donated to the USS ''Missouri'' Memorial Association of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for use as a museum ship in 1999.{{sfn|Hore|2005|p=219}}