USS Missouri BB-63 was one of the Iowa-class "fast battleship" designs planned in 1938 by the Preliminary Design Branch at the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Her keel was laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York on 6 January 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1944 and commissioned on 11 June. USS Missouri BB 63 was the final battleship commissioned by the Navy. The battleship was christened at her launching by Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S. Truman, then a senator from Missouri.

During World War II, USS Missouri saw action at the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, and shelled the Japanese home islands of Hokkaido and Honshū.

In the 1950s, Missouri fought in the Korean War and was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets. She was recommissioned in the 1980s, and refitted with modern armaments. In 1991, she participated in the Gulf War.

Missouri was decommissioned a final time on 31 March 1992, having received a total of eleven battle stars, and is presently a museum ship at Pearl Harbor.  The powerful warship has nicknames as "Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo".

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This Missouri model features:

- Plank-on-frame, hollow hull construction.   (Solid hull is unrealistic and will crack. )

- Beautiful natural color wooden deck exactly like the deck of the real ship.

- Gun turrets can be manually turned.
 
- All parts are wood and metal. 

- Light "rust"  appearance that only master modelers can create.

 48" Lx 14"Tx 7"W      $1,300      S & H is $80

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