MacArthur
MacArthur.
The third USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a U.S. Navy battleship, notable as the final battleship to be built by the United States, the second-to-last in the world after HMS Vanguard, and the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. She was one of the Iowa-class "fast battleship" designs planned in 1938 by the Preliminary Design Branch at the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Missouri was ordered on 12 June 1940 and 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. The ship was the fourth of the Iowa class and the final battleship commissioned by the Navy. The ship was christened at her launching by Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S. Truman, then a senator from Missouri. During World War II, 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. In the morning of 2 September 1945, more that two weeks after acceping the Allies terms, Japan formally surrendered. The ceremonies, less than half an hour long, took place on board the battleship USS Missouri, anchored with other United States' and British ships in Tokyo Bay.
I don't think they had numbers but rather names were on them. Specific people received them.
Douglas MacArthur, random Mr. Stewart student.
It fuelled the flames of discontent within the country. Example: When the battleship crewmen of the Russian Battleship Potemkin (stationed in the Black Sea) received news of their sister battleship squadron being destroyed at Tsushima in May 1905...the Potemkin crewmen mutinied.
It received an atomic bomb. 3 days after, Nagasaki had the same fate leading the Japanese to surrender.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) accepted the formal surrender of the Japanese Imperial Forces on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay.
Battleship - 2012 VG is rated/received certificates of: UK:12 USA:T
Surrender - 2000 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
The Baby and the Battleship - 1956 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G Finland:S Sweden:Btl UK:U West Germany:6
Sweet Surrender - 1935 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved
No Surrender - 1985 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:M UK:15 USA:R