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From ships of the United States Navy, which have been blasting, pounding, softening Japanese defenses, foot soldiers of the United States leap to the beaches of Roi and Kwajalein Islands inthe Marshalls . . . Allied troops, spearheaded by fighting Americans, capture Minturno, Italy, enter Gassino, establish Anzio-Nettuno beachhead south of Home . . . The Russians, grimly exultant, drive toward Rumania, penetrate deep into Pripet Marshes, smash beyond old borders of Poland, capture Leningrad . . . To the homefront in the United States come revelations of Japanese atrocities against American and Filipino captives of Corregidor and Bataan . . . A nation gasps as the horrors are described, then settles down intent on the job that lies ahead-a terrific job, with bombs, shells, bullets, Whistling, screaming, blasting and roaring. All instruments are being tuned for the Overture to Victory . . . ' East and West, the growing might of Allied offensives is being massed for the reconquest of the Philippines, the destruction of the Japanese Empire, the liberation of millions of men, Women and children, conquered, tortured and oppressed by Hitler, the Bismarck of the Beer Halls, Mussolini, the Chin on the Balcony, and Hirohito, who peered down from his private heaven through bi-focals. i A A Ships, planes, munitions, men, food, are on the march from the Arsenal of Democracy. mf 1 9517, - 1 y 4231 A ' ISM 'Z WW' LX, vw f UXQQ' Svkxwisx ' nf? a . ' W' 5941 .. ' ' Z N- fmw A V5. x AXW. Q -'1'.i4 A ,,,. M hw f WSWS 'YC' ' ' if : f ,W -W ,y ,f , gygm ww M! 1 I .A ,, Ai , N . A1 . ' 1- 1:7 V W-WNW - , Vs, W ' f -. -ax A ' ,W 435 'f K 4 ei, ff S4 N' Q N X w f , X -Y-,kvb-P. .,.,..........4-.-.--.,- , .' . . , 1 . Q I AILY 29, 1944 aturday BADEN SKIES have settled low over Brooklyn Navy Yard . . . Under that dark canopy an icy wind Whips through the yards, its raw blasts nipping noses and watering eyes of 26,000 shivering persons gathered for the launching of one of the mightiest of all battlewagons-the U.S.S. Missouri. A smooth-faced, graying man, overcoated, be-gloved, be-spectacled stands on a platform, talking into a microphone. Behind him are admirals, cabinet officials, leaders of government and its arms, listening intently. All of them, though, shift their eyes now and then to stare in awe at the masterpiece of shipbuilding science into which on this day is being breathed the spirit and soul of the nation whose security it is to defend by carrying the battle across dark waters of the globe to hidden holes where aggressors lurk. he Missouri slides down the ways ameemmwzedze ,AM msn The MISSOIJTI s hrst Commandlng Officer 'Ab- Of, THE S LEX .,gXv,AsQQ ..K,, Q jc, isripffgifttsiiisvarsffh . ,, .t c Q CC Roh HE smooth-faced, graying man, talking into the microphone is the' orator of the day. The crowd likes him. He has an infectious smile. No one has realized it quite yet but of all the men in the United States today no better selection could have been made in the hunt for an official speaker for the launching of the U .S.S. Missouri. This man was born in Missouri, his home has always been in Missouri, in the First World War he served as an artillery officer and then he re- turned to Missouri to become a judge and then to represent his home state in the United States Senate. He is United States Senator Harry S. Truman, nationally known for the bang-up job he has done as head of the Senate committee investigat- ing world war expenditures, the famous Truman committee. The job that committee has done is a tribute to this man who sparked its dartings here and there to plug up the rat holes of useless expenditures. This has been a disconcerting day for the senator. His introduction to the sleek, powerful battleship that is to carry the name of his home state into the turbulent corners of a world -at war has had little of the quiet, leisurely touch of an old home week. For one thing, the weather has been unfriendly. For another, tidal conditions have disarranged the program. At the last minute, those who have been squinting expertly at the elements have insisted that the time be advanced for the release of the ship at a moment when they know therefll be water there to float it and conditions favorable for the tugs to grab it and hold it. ltis a big ship, there's a lot of War Bond money invested in it, it's badly needed in the Pacific-so, there must be no slip-up. The senator is smilingly I-agreeable to all the hurry. He is forced to race through his speech at breakneck speed-with the breathless excitement, almost, of Winchell in a news broadcast. The senator has prepared a good speech. lt's a big day for Missouri. He can't let down the folks back home. He has to squeeze in that speech, while skilled hands cope with the weather. He reads swiftly, but easily, with the polished effect of a trip- hammer news broadcaster. . Did you catch that line in his speech? T He said: f'Big Mo, with batteries blazing, will sail into Tokyo Bayf' The crowd cheers. Tokyo is a major public worry at this moment. The senator finishes in time, in plenty of time, in fact for his daughter, Miss Mary Margaret Truman, a bright, smiling typical American school- girl, to swing lustily with a bottle of champagne, as she sings out the L, ' YYY ' W is Yi' ,., 1. 'W V a- M 1 -nj ,Q eommmzdoz pmz eww zz, s, W The Missourins fnrst Executive Officer he Commissioning Ceremonies, held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard name of the new battle craft. The crowd cheers her success as the bottle pops, the champagne showers the prow of the vessel, as well as the pretty fur coat of Miss Margaret. The big ship stiffens, as though it were coming to attention and-there it goes!-inching, sliding, she's off into the Waters of the East River! The U.S.S. Missouri has been launched! There rested the battleship Missouri, balanced and poised, on the waters that How past Manhattan and Brooklyn. Just for a few moments, though, because there was no time to waste. She was to be commissioned as quickly as possible. Before taking' her place in the United States battle fleet Work had to be done. For five years-since 1939, when Hitler blitzkrieged helpless Poland with what he intended as a warning to any other nation in the World that cared to oppose his commands-theU.S.S. Missouri had been on the drawing boards and on the ways in the shipyard. January 16, 1941, the keel had been laid. Her trim steel body was being welded and riveted when the Japanese staged their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. And, now the launching! mong the many visitors at commisesionin g ceremonies . . . were the WAVES he WAVES seemed glad to he aboard 109 H 1' ff n -' f V ' , WW 1 FP, 5x m I fy ff,4 W 'inf 4-J ,QQ ff BOSWELL REACTS T0 CAPTAlN'S INSPECTIONH ff' ff V0 X fl W' I Mix x if ' ff' ' , K M C M Q A ' 1 sr l',, . -' ' - fav 5 f 4 I 1 , 7 X .l,1 I X ,Y ' , 1, ' f ' . 7 .ff ff h Xf fi, X ' f f N rf l 1377 R K fffrv. . . W rn r fl . ' f - y, q V Iiqfxy , 1 I ki f . X Vw , . KL jj ' 3 ' , mx ,J , X f -+L. -I'- FU TWV A' ll from the State of Missouri ON OCCASIONS THERE W'AS CONSIDERABLE RAIN L. wr '1 12:4 1 0 , M lx l3X X Q h.L,, W IQXV AJZK V A WiZG V:,.V U 5 5 A i S .Q aptam Eddie to the Mlssourl at co V7 b wiv C . F. I , 1 - ' n vii ' . ' Ff- T I Rickenbacker and other visit0l'S mmissioning 'Q K, 'F' FQ. 1 wi' '50 351 o QC ll! QC up X Qu li QI Nfl it Um. an is 'vu 'M K . xs. says, . 5 .nf 35 gif 3' rom rnbafker S e and om mipei0 ing N I will BYU X' SSEMBLING of the crew, building of ship's organization was begun imme- diately. Commander William S. Maxwell, who was to be the Missouri's chief engineer, handled early details of that work at the Navy Yard and Commander Jacob E. Cooper, who was to be executive officer, took charge of the pre-commissioning detail at the Naval Training Center, Newport, Rhode fsland. Word had run through the whole of the United States Navy that the Missouri t b ' ' ' was o e a ship w1th a destiny. From 3,000 officers on duty in all parts of the world came anxious requests for assignment to duty aboard her. At Newport, the major part of the crew was assembled, sent to various schools and tra' d f h ' me or t e1r posts on the new ship. Men who landed assignments to the Missouri worked doubly hard to secure their berths and soon the entire outfit had a 4.0 reputation. A Into New York, from the Pacific, came the Missouri's first skipper, Captain William McCombe Callaghan. Choice of the commanding officer of this newest battleship of the United States Fleet was unique. In 1916, the' first cruise that William McCombe Callaghan had ever made was as a Naval Academy midshipman on the earlier battleship Missouri, a vessel launched in 1901 and decommissioned in 1919 after service in World War 1. Like the old battlewagon on which, as a midshipman he had acquired his sea legs, Captain Callaghan had come a long way in 19441 wh h ' en e arrived aboard the second Missouri of his career, a bigger and better Missouri, one to make the earlier Missouri look like an A-Model Ford. The new Sk. . . . lpper entered into his new duties zestfully the envy of many another 5 Navy man who was longing to be aboard the Navy's largest ship in the world's greatest war. The ship that had been launched in the closing days of January was commissioned J 11 ' ' ' ' une , 19444, with the weather this time a bit more co- operative for this second formal ceremony. The afternoon was warm and sunny when some 1,500 oflicers and men came to the Nav Yard fro . y m Newport. The rest of the crew alread was on d t h dl' y u y, an ing the thousand and one jobs that prepare a battleship for commissioning R Ad ear miral Monroe Kelly, Commandant of the Navy Yard, placed the ship in commission. Captain Callaghan read his orders and accepted delivery of the ship. The order was given: uSet the Watch Once more, the United States Fleet boasted a U .S.S. M issoiiri. And again Senator Truman f ' ' ' ' was guest o honor at the ceremonies in which the pride of the Navy became the home of more than 2,500 officers and men Old hands and new hands were amazed at the size and completeness of their floating home. The Missouri trimly streamlined was 888 f l , , eet ong and 108 feet in beam-just two feet narrower than the locks of the Panama Canal. With officers and men aboard in numbers comparable to the population of a thriving town, this seagoing fort offered all the living facilities of a topnotch city. The men wasted no time examining all the k d g noo s an corners of the ship that was to be their war residence The equipment of the Missouri was breathtaking D Her bakeshop could produce 1,800 loaves of bread a day. Her ice cream plant could, and did, turn out a thousand quarts a day. Her laundry facilities handle comfortably the needs of more than 2,500 officers and men. Herengineering plant of four main engines supplied power for all the shipis services, could move the huge 2000-ton 'main turrets with ease, and still have power to drive the ship at more than 30 knots. A From the paravane chains at the distinctively high clipper bow to the aircraft crane at the stern, the Missouri was the best the United States-or the world-could produce. The speed of 30 knots plus to be maintained by the 45,000-ton vessel demanded a power plant dwarfing those of all earlier battleshipshthat Uncle S am once sent to sea. To handle that power plant, an engineering depart- ment of 500 men was organized. ,vffv :rift bfsirf Ml hifi ,ff uf-'iii 13' ,gli awp'-l, 'fgpwli a-ravd' , rasmazii. auswuwwq I .1 uw' 5 ff' 'MM ,, 'HQ' ' AUGU ,IEI44 . . . the Missouri moved out of the East River, down through the bay, past Sandy Hook and into the Atlantic for her trial run and shakedown. The mass of guns and machinery was being put to the test, as all new ships are, so the men worked and lived aboard her could know the power and the eccentricities of the ship that was to be their career and arms as well as their home. The iirst stage of that trial run was down the coast to Norfolkg p Anchor and Away then the vessel was taken out into the Atlantic and pointed south, to Puerto Rico and thence southeast to Trinidad. In mid-September, she moved back to Norfolk and New York. As every Navy man knows, during that shake- down every workable part of a ship is put to test, the officers and the crew learn the strength of the ship that has just come to them from the builders, so that when the vessel goes into active service there'll be no weaknesses found too late. The Missouri came through admirably. She lived up to all the claims of her designers and builders. A message to the men from their skipper said: uFrorn now on it's up to the oiiicers and men aboard to live up to the standards that the ship has set for them. uThe trials and the shakedown are over, the first chapter has been writ- ten. May the next chapter be written in steel against the Japslw With that spirit, the men of the U.S.S. Missouri moved their battlewagon out of New York again on November 10, for the voyage to her assignment in the Pacific. Y Q G aptain's inspection or jobs well done, there were special citations aff ' CFS. V w fs f 1 ,-W f I Af f Y f Xfh f, 1 4 X X W f X 1 'G f .- Nays Q X W 3 N, ' 1 , --f' gi 41 4 , ' 7 i Uv! fg- 5 91 Q ,- ,Xl F w tr, 5 11' 1- uf f X X ,' ' jf 2 X ' ,Qi ai ZA ,c'fSZf5!7'1- ' ,M . ' JV ' Y, J .AVS if---Wan: ,, .. , A , Q 1 1 , 4 Q , Mvw, ff b 1 VE 5 V. 4 W f Qw- ,WL .JJ l N 1 4 ! f I ' 1 - ff! my XXV. Us WX, A If ,iw X ,HX I f Q QW X si. hakedown AWWWAVMK W f 1 If I ,,,k 0 A P w I Mvffwf 1 'Q M. 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Said he: 4'The crews have done some remarkable firing. But each man has to keep on the job. There are 101 things to do to keep those bullets dropping on the target and if one man lets down the effective- ness slumps. When we see our guns hit every Jap target theyire supposed to hit, then we,ll be satisfied. Not till then! The thought was pounded into the crews, day and night, that without big guns there wouldn't be any Missouri or any other battleship. Com- mander lVIalone's job was to see that the guns shoot straight and often after they have been lugged to spots where they'll do the most good. On the Missouri, gunnery was, of necessity, the Number One department in personnel. About 60 per cent of the ship's company were attached to gunnery. Under battle conditions, 500 to 700 additional sailors help to man guns, pass powder and ammunition and otherwise lend a hand to speed the Missoarfs bullets toward enemy targets. Commander Malone, the gunnery boss was a peppery Irishman, a 1927 Naval Academy graduate, who learned gunnery on many ships, taught the subject at the fire control school in Washington and had practiced it against laps as gunnery officer of the battleship Alabama He had a deep respect for the tools of his profession and vehement distaste for careless- ness or slovenliness towards guns or ammunitions He pounded the thought into his men: A Gunner must be experienced and competent and its a good idea if he s a little cocky too BUT-he must never get overconfident or careless Then hes asking trouble for himself and his shipmates . Commander H. V. Bird, 1933 Naval Academy graduate, the Missouri's assistant gunnery officer, wore proof of his experience in a citation ribbon won while he was gunnery oflicer of the Service Force, Atlantic Fleet. His specialty was the five-inch guns, which he handled for eight years aboard the Colorado, a new destroyer and other ships. His greatest satisfaction as the U.S.S. Missouri steamed toward the Pacific war zone was that four of the five E awards for gunnery efficiency held by Missouri gunners were on five-inch mounts, Numbers 1, 3, 8 and 10. The fifth E award was held in Turret 3 of the Main Battery of 16-inch guns, and much of the credit for this was being tossed back and forth between Lt. Robert Matusek, Turret 3 officer, and Lt. Comdr. Heber Player, Main Battery officer. Lt. Comdr. Player was usic a football man at the Naval Academy, Class of 1937. Fgurth on the gunnery team was another athlete, Lt. Comdr, Joseph C. Bintelen, Jr. Burly Joe Bintelen, a Naval Beservist, was ship's wrestling officer, but his big job aboard the Missouri was handling the 20- and 1110-1VllV1 antiaircraft machine guns of which he was in charge. ln civilian life he had been successively a mill superintendent and a mineralogy professor fand wrestling coacht at Carnegie Tech and Duke. He was the onlygman aboard with a doctor of philosophy degree. He went into the Navy early in 1911-2, fry K and ecreation A Fifth top gunnery man was Lt. Comdr. James C. Bidwell, 1939 Naval cademy graduate, lire control officer, whose job it was to see that few eggs were wasted before they landed on the target. With these men drilling excellent gun crews the ship's com an had v P Y cpnliildegci that the Missouri would come through admirably in any test t . o e g ting job that lay ahead. The men learned that a salvo of armor-piercing shells from the nine 16-inch guns of the Missouri was equivalent to nine Ford automobiles b . h . . . eing urled into the air at a speed of 200 miles an hour, thundering along several miles, and then hitting a target 20 miles away and setting off a ton of explosive. The gunnery departmentis job was to deliver the nine Ford automo- biles-or their equivalent in weight-smack at the right destination. A diflicult job, when it is considered that the Missouri might be steaminff at 30 knots an hour in a high sea and the target might be doing the samdjl To find th ' b. ' e range, earing, speed and other data about a target is a complicated job but the Missourigs gunnery ofiicers knew how to operate their instruments and the men they were commanding knew these jobs, too. Besides those huge main batteries, the Miss.ouri's secondary batteries of five-inch gun required similar plotting and directing devices. These live- inch guns were meant originally for use against surface targets but the all-out lighting in World War II required that they serve a double pur- pose-they were mounted as anti-aircraft defenses as well. In addition, the ship bristled with anti-aircraft 20 and 40 millimeters. The ship's gunnery department was clicking like a well-ordered ship7s clock when the big vessel nosed its way into San Francisco bay in early December of the year of its launching. At that port, it was groomed for its trip westward into the Pacific. Christmas mail was loaded aboard, and as the expectant crew counted the sacks it looked as though every man aboard would average about three Christmas packages. Where they would be when Santa Claus passed those packages out to them, the crew could only speculate. .yy y W'----A kv I N f , wi. 11454: . sv .MEF Am' ' V 7 9 i af , , lf,.f rw. Eli: F331 Ei ,, ll 35 5 lm A H45 ' .551 P wig 554 if N? QE? an fs? :HQ iii ? J' : il: if 'di ff 5 Ri M4 Jil ? 75 5' fb ' w w Q Ox H! ! ' 5 A ' f Q W . S ,Q 51 Q M QH ' lf 311 I2 .Q kv lf el , W wi W. 41 'N 51? it Mr ' 5f1 ' V. M W ' M W I , iii! - E351 - , 7-fi, 'Al J! ' 332 L if ' , b qx . I i z I 1 '1 M1 X 6 fig 'Q 'Fl VI , L 111, I 51 ' II 'zil 'Fl rn, i L. 1 j S y 'I i 'I 11 1 i 11' f is 1 11 , fi S L' '- ':. lg lf L U, ' f ,,, , F ,, V, I A 'fl 1 WI Va, , Vw? ' inf? HIHT aunehing aircraft MA ll1lY 1944 and... rw YEAR nn 1945 FFICERS AND MEN of the Missouri were getting the breaks. The fieet operations schedule brought the ship into Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1944. Thousands of bluejackets at the Hawaii base hailed the arrival of the Missouri, not only as a new, powerful addition to naval strength in the Pacific but, more gratefully, they hailed the Missouri as Santa Claus. By way of demonstrating that the Navy at war does everything possible to rush mail tobluejackets away from home, the Missouri and the Fleet Postofiice at San Francisco collaborated as the big battlewagon was about to lift overing aircraft rr. , nf ,f V. ,V-, , ,V f 3i.l:- : ft- QW ' + f fr a fs' f gli.: , 1 V-ah sf Q . -.M ' 'Sw ' SJ' I, ,V L. fit 2 3 1 99 lt -a V1 ,, , srrlng aircrafl aklng plane aboard anchor. Some 1,600 sacks of late holiday mail, destined for men at Hawaii, was piled in the postoffice at San Francisco. All cargo vessels were over- loaded, so the Fleet Postoffice asked the Missouri to lend a hand. The 1,600 sacks were loaded aboard the battleship in short order and delivered at their destination early Christmas morning. For the Missourfs officers and men, Christmas dinner from soup to nuts, with a special Christmas souvenir menu printed in holiday colors, wound up a formal celebration, which had started with the distribution of gifts and then merged into solemn religious services. As the New Year dawned, the Missouri was less than a year old, com- puting its age from the launching date, less than seven months old, com putlnff from the date of its commissioning She had taken her place with the greatest fleet 1n American naval his tory, fittmff comfortably and confidently into a group of vessels that bore proud battle records The ship was new but old, experienced heads operated her Her brave and skilled men, in the words of Admiral lN1m1tz, could look forward to the new year, assured that lt will see new and more powerful blows dealt the enemy and that lt will brlng us closer to victory and peace X ,MN f Xf X4 L Lis X ' . N, . 4:f'?W1,, ws --N225 ' X- W4-2 M X 'g.XXw.1X4i, XSQSWSXLF3, XV ,Ei .f W ,XQX X- SX 1+ XWXX , X, Xu. MMS Gm - .Ta N 4.S: FXiXf. V M .KXXEX XX , XXX, 5.S.,XfXX..-,y X , XL SXQNXQQ ' ' .X X XX XXX ,ff X ,Ng , X.. XX-.XS-3.53 V: . 6, ' x , X X sys Qi X, . X X. X y ' X-XQXX XXX: A .XX , 1 QNXX X Q . X X A X XX X if x N . K, X X . 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Ehe convoy stretched for 70 miles and was the longest convoy in naval istory . . .N The Navy was pounding, blasting, driving back the laps . .. The battleship Missouri was driving steadily ahead through the waters of the Pacific to her first scheduled destination in the war zone-Ulithi, an island east by southeast from Leyte. .. The Missouri was off to test her mettle against the laps and take her part in the fighting Navy which was closing in to wind up once and for all Japan's war of aggression. The oflicers and men on the Missouri were on their way into the fight, with some excellent advice from their skipper. Captain Callaghan, as they were about to move Westward from Pearl Harbor, told them: uThe ensuing days and months will not all be spent in fighting. There will be many long hours of watchful waiting. As the vessel moved ahead, Senator Truman was inaugurated as vice- president of the United States. In the crew of the Missouri was the new vice-president's nephew, Seaman 2c John C. Truman, quartermaster striker, whose home was in Independence, Mo. uUncle Harry will make a very good vice-presidentf' said Seaman Truman, '4His record is assurance of thatf, edunksw were sold by the thousands 1 H , I 3 1 1 A S 1 Q. f 1 y, 1 R 3 , M. .41 1, 1 I! 1.1 :gy 'iii :vt ,li If MM iii? s fri wa 3 PI ii? in 151 gal LE? 51 3: li :+.:i.1,: 4 15' 5' Q Qi, . A er, is S! fu ,li in W , P a . ,ngy . r V 1 in 5 2 1 Y If 1 i 4 5 9 I 'R ,. , i I e 9 . 1 i i n Q E , X 'I , 1' M: ,.. 4,1 I Iflx' ,T , ,1 , H Cv 4 ul, , ,, , .Q . 5 , 1 A 1 gll Y sk , r' V' S as sl tl al UU 3 all 2' Y ll B in -an U fa I' I fl mil lu U AFEBR ommander Louis T. Malone, the M issouriis second executive officer, also commander of regiment that occupied Yokosuka . . . known as the 66Malone Maraudersn UARY I9, H145 . .. . APTAIN QALLAGHAN,S forecast that watchful waiting would be a difficult part of the Job that lay ahead of the Missouri proved correct. Not until F ebruary. 19th, was the Missouri destined to see' her first action. At this time, while driving through the waters off lwo Jima as a part of Task Force 58, the shipis first kill was made. On the evening of that day-at 1944-, as Navy time has it-several small groups.of .lap planes were detected by the radar. The anti-aircraft battery swung into the alert. The bogies continued to close in-f'Air Defense was sounded! One of the Jap planes headed for the Missouri-the gunnery crew worked a good. solution on the rapidly closing Jap. The ship opened fire and almost immediately the target, tentatively identified as a HELEN, burst into flames. That was the first kill for the Missouri. All hands were proud. Good tracking, good shooting-and, as the gunnery crew admitted itself, perhaps a little luck-earned for the Missouri the reputation as a straight- Ehooting ship. Commander Malonefs intensive work with his men had borne ru1t. The next chance for the Missouri to test its shooting ability came lVlarchf18. The battleship was still a part of Task Force 58, which was making its first air strikes against the airfields of Kyushu, in what was to be a forerunner of the Okinawa operation. Bogies, or ,lap air squadrons, ,working as units or separately, were being reported frequently in the vicinity of the Task Force. The first closed into visual range of the Missouri at 0741 on March 18. A single J ap plane, believed to be a ZEKE, suddenly dived out of the clouds from the direction of the sun and dropped a bomb on a carrier just off the Missouriis port beam. 4'Air Defensef' was immediately sounded. Everyone stood by, knowing that some- thing else was due to appear out of the skies. lt came-the Missouri's first tilt with a ,lap Kamikaze, that type of suicide pilot peculiar to the laps. At 0805, almost twenty minutes after the first bomb had been dropped on the carrier, the Missouri, along with other ships, opened fire on a NICK. The solution was excellent, another feather in the hat of the gunnery crews The I ap plane burst into fiames The men on the Missouri watched their Kamikaze quarry with rapt interest Everyone was amazed to find that this plane completely afire and apparently almost completely out of control veered and swerved in 1tS plunge in one last determined effort to crash on to the deck of one of the carriers It missed and plunged roaring into the ocean Twice again that morning Missouri gunners opened fire on bandits The second was splashed by shot from the Missouri Bogey business continued in the afternoon and at 1316 a plane dove ln and dropped a bomb near one of the carriers As it rose lt was splashed by Missouri gunfire Fire was opened on another plane 1n a few minutes at a range of 2500 yards and lt was splashed just off the Missouris starboard beam The instrument solution on this one was excellent and the Missouri claimed another kill During the afternoon b0g1CS were visible off in the sky but none closed within shooting range March 24+ the ship was scheduled for its first bombardment of enemy territory It was the beginning of the Okinawa campaign The battleshlps New Jersey and the Wisconsin moved IH early in the morning to fill out the bombardment group and behind screenln destroyers these three ships moved in toward the southwestern coast of the .lap held island For the first time the Mzssouris virgin 16 inch guns were to be used 1n something more than trial target practice This was to be real target practice with the Japanese stronghold on the receiving end The guns fired at extreme range and no opposition was encountered The crew was disappointed over its inability to assess accurately the dama e the shells had done but accepted the disappointment ln good Splllt realizing that this was just the beginning of some real action Five days later March 29th while continuing strikes on the Kyushu area the formation was bothered by several bo ISS ln early afternoon b0g16S were reported southwest of the group and condition one was set Shortly after 1400 a bogey was detected only 12 miles away and closing IH fast Two of the combat Air Patrol planes got on the bogey s tall and followed him clown 1 . . ' . . 7 9 7 ' . . . . , . . . . 7 H 5 , . ., . . . . . 7 , . , ' . . . . , . .U a . . . - U' 7 U 9, , .. U . . . . .. p U 1: 7 . . 7 7 7 g ' 1 . 9 - - U' FF 6 OG-MOG at Ulithi Lagoon X if ' o' 4 fi, I '. ur I' 1' ' 1 9' Q I I 1 I P' I ,,-1. - O x . U' 4 lf 1 r- l' f, s 0 ga' ,J 1. J ap machine gun pierces barrel of Missouri's 40mm gun that helped bring him down through the clouds as he d h ove on t e formation. Ships of the group opened fire and the bogey was splashed. During this action ra 20 MM cartridge, without exploding, passed through the stomach of Seaman Second Class .l. .l. Ganas. He was the Missouriis only casualty that day. Then, two weeks late A 'l . r, on pri ll, came the most determined Kamikaze attack the Missouri was to encounter. The lap drove in out of the skies, flying low, aimed straight for the star- board t f ' quar er o the battleship. lt was early afternoon. The M iss0uri's guns had picked him up and had riddled his plane probably killing the pilot as he kept the plane headed straight for the tar et, on which g he was to make the supreme sacrifice for his emperor. The Missouri kept up d a mur erous hail of fire but the Jap plane bore in straight ahead. , Through the curtain of fire the Missouri gunners blasted at him, the Jap succeeded in coming until he crashed into the ship within a few feet of the anti-aircraft battery on the starboard quarter at the main deck level. Not one of the Missouriis gunners left his gun as the plane drove aboard. One wing of the plane was shorn off and flew forward, landing inboard of 5-inch gun mount No. 3 where the gasoline from the shattered wing burst into flame. Clouds of smoke and fumes were sucked into the fire room by the main ventilation intake nearby, but the fire was quickly extinguished by a party led by Lt. O. D. Scarborough, Junior Officer of the Deck. Damage Control officers, quickly assessing possible damage to the ship found the main deck aft littered with fragments of the ZEKE. A crushed remnant of the pilotis body, thrown clear, landed on the main deck. The planeis machine gun was driven through the barrel of one of the shipis 40-mm guns, so strong was the force of the impact. By this time fire had opened on another J-ap plane diving on another battleship in the formation. It was shot down quickly but succeeded in crashing close aboard its intended target. Other Kamikazes, spurred by a desire to avenge the Japanese Battleship he Missouri hit by Kamikaze 1 11- I I Ya ato which had been sunk bv planes from the Task Force, attacked the m , Missouri, but none was able to penetrate the screen of fire which the shipts gunners threw up around 11612 Then, the 16th of April, 1945! The 'cfightingestn day of all the Missouri's war days! More than 12 solid hours of sparring With Jap planes! Okinawa was the issue of the day. The AmeriCHHS WCT6 determined tg capture the island. Their bombers needed it as a hop-off point for the efficient destruction of Tokyo. The Japs just about this time decided to defend Okinawa, at all hazards. They began throwing all the fight they had into the defense of this island. They were playing their last cards in an abortive attempt to stem the tide of the inexorable advance of the Americans. The day started early for the Missouri and the other craft patrolling the waters off Okinawa. At 0038, a group of ,lap planes 'approached the formation of naval vessels of which the Missouri was a unit. Destroyers, together with Combat Air Patrol screening the edges of the American ship formation, turned the enemy planes away. The laps retreated before the heavy screen the destroyers shot up and veered off, disappearing to the northwest. At 0132, the clear signal was given. Then more reports of Jap planes came at 0756 and the guns of the anti- aircraft batteries were hurriedly manned again. From then until 1136, six raids were picked up by the radar but none closed in. Those were anxious hours of watching and waiting. At 1303 a group of planes was picked up about 75 miles away, headed straight for the formation. They were quickly identified as a suicide squadron and at 1326 HAir Defensew was sounded. Guns of the Missouri opened fire on a low-flying ZEKE at a distance of about 6,000 yards and hits were obtained almost immediately. The plane withstood the direct hits for about thirty seconds and then burst into Hames, crashing close aboard one of the carriers. Two minutes later, Missouri guns opened fire on a second ZEKE, also com- ing in low and feast from the north. Again the guns were trained directly on the target. Shot from the ship raked the plane but the I ap Kamikaze pilot aboard bore directly down in a definite attempt to die crashing into the battle- ship. The wing of the plane clipped the crane on the fantail before the ZEKE crashed a short distance astern and exploded violently. Debris was thrown aboard the ship but only minor damage was sustained. At 1335, the antiaircraft guns were swung toward a J ap plane diving toward the ship from the port quarter. More direct hits and the plane burst into flames, passing over the ship at about 300 feet and crashing into the water at the starboard bow. Almost immediately after that, two planes came in high and dove on the carrier on the M issouri's port beam. One crashed her, the other was splaslwfl- At 1514-, Missouri guns started roaring at two planes closing in OH the formation from the north. Hits were plentiful but one plane crashed forward of a carrier and the other close aboard one of the destroyers. Guns roared again in a few minutes at another plane. No hits were Ob- served but the plane passed astern of the ship and disappeared over the horizon. Then came a few hours respite. A checkup aboard showed two mens A- 1' ermo Seaman First Class and D I Guiliano, Seaman First Class, haff beerfq wounded by shrapnel They were the only casualties of the early d3YS wor and on throughout the rest of the day, Jap formations would be de' .ed approaching from various directions but none closed in with this ssouri However throughout the day until approximately 2200 thi? ann' craft men stood at air defense In the last 30 minutes of this tense day, guns e on two planes but neither closed in with the ship after the fire was ened That was the end of a busy day the busiest of all days f0T the Ssouri insofar as nerve strain and the hazards of air duels can be listed. r1l 29th dawned with the Mtssoulis Task Group already in the HHH' aircraft cruising formation ready for whatever might come. The morning wag uneventful just as many days were uneventful if only a few bogiCS Slghte re and there but keepmg their distance In late afternoon--at 1737 C3m5 air attack With a low fiylng ZEKE moving in astern of the formation HH Pal , , , Off tect ' ' M L . , air . fir d ' op . 7 T I, Q ' l Ap ' - he 7 , ' ' - . an ' ' , ' U , - t l I uh' . S F, Q 1 NCQ. ren of hre ,xhicimrledhlty Hip? ar tim! 'P Plluesi nieriqam hy l Q ' eff d I , 1 Q an fiend Ok- P Ulawa H0 th ' at all hal . me attiniilitftihse of f.hiSiSm1 0 stem the tid, My the other craft palrollinalh r rl the formation of naval W! lr :Eff I ffffeninff th c 9 edvea Oflh anes - U' F l dauaf- The laps retrutd an reered off, digappemg H given, ll .J6 and the guns of the art- id UP by the radar hutnn, ng and waiting. about T5 miles away, herdtt df-ntrhed as a suicide squadnz -flying ZEKE at a distanced, lmost imnrediatehx The lan' . P g rfb and then burst into flarnrr' e on a second ZEKE, also con-p guns were trained directlyiurt e but the lap Kamikaze phil to die crashing into the battle-Q nn the fantail before the nut violently. Debris was thruui -ustained. 3 t ard a la? Plane dir'iI15l0 'l'di i 'lu his and the plane but-ga? and crashing into the W . ' 'uh tl dove on iii .3 if.JZ'dliri3 ttf.. lanes closing In Uni lruloose plane crashed fonur u :t VHS- , the de- ro, YO wel-elllr otbif Plan? if dovtflli hip and dlsappeare . all a 5h0Wfd Ft In ., it Zixfrieamau FH giidalf tr casualties of ' ' . .udbfll f rr11a 0 5 i frht ,lip rlfriadir anmatflt ,arid app! A fthlsfens Brett? minuteitip after this W lh iiiieil Of au gzilislfd' liar a'rrd 'il5cii at at .k Group Wai waftlliiilr rmight comekew bggiiiiw. I if onli' 3 nfatll .Until late afternfiothg forrrltfl 0 falling under gunfire. It splashed without causing any damage but mean- while two of the plcket destroyers had been crashed b suicide lanes. At . Y P 2000.the all clear signal sounded. No one knew at the time that this brush in the a1r on that April 29th was to be the last shot the Missouri would take at a J ap plane until the dying gasps of the Nipponese in their feeble last struggle three months later. A new commanding oflicer came aboard the Missouri on May 14-th, 19415. Captaln Callaghan who had brought the ship into the Pacific and carried it through its first encounters with the Japs was being promoted. His successor was a former classmate at the Naval Academy, Captain Stuart Shadrick Murray, USN. Before Captain Callaghan read his orders aloud, he repeated some of the remarks he had made when the ship was commissioned in the presence of Senator and then Vice President and now on this May 14-, President of the WUnited States Harry S. Truman, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Captain Callaghan told the men: Be loyal to God, who created youg to your parents, who bore and raised you, to your wives, children and sweet- hearts who love you, and to your country, which gave you the opportunity to pursue happiness in liberty. As I said then, I humbly repeat now, that no man can administer this ship without the help of your skill, intelligence and loyalty in pursuing our common responsibility. You have fulfilled your parts in action against the enemy. You should be proud of what you have accom- plished. I am. This ship will have an important part in any future action in this area. I know you will give the same loyal service to your new Command- ing Officer as you gave to me. he Missouri afire following Kamikaze attack f. 1 ,Q ' K ,Z V vw , I ,N ' 1 5 f c ' f ff M ,Q ,2- , 7 5 .7 A ya ,Ag .XA B , f ,, N M., , XMSW. W, ,Y A 4 News f X V Q K 5734 ff-ff ,y - r f ,fx 1 . Zfffn X QU , My wg ,. 7 'X x I X ws 1 Left to right dmiral Rawlins, Royal Navy Admiral Halsey Admiral McCain HE NEW C.O. came to the Missouri from the Naval Academy where he was commandant of midshipmen since the fall of 7113. Before that in World War II he served in the Philippines and in Australia. Nearly all his sea duty had been in submarines and all of it was in the Pacific theater He holds the Legion of Merit and has a Commendation from the Secretary of the Navy, as well as the P. l. Defense Medal. Other shifts had been made in the officer personnel. Lt. Commdr. Rintelen, machine gunnery oliicer, had been returned to the Bureau of Ordnance. Commander Louis T. Malone had been made executive oflicer. Commander R. W. Faulk had been made senior chaplain. Lieut. C. A. Robinson had been moved in as chaplain. Commander H. V. Bird succeeded Commander Malone as gunnery ofiicer and the new assistant gunnery oflicer was Lt. Comdr. Heber tButchJ Player, former Massachusetts main battery officer, while the new air defense officer was Lt. Comdr. ,lames Bidwell, brought in from the USS North Carolina. Commander B. N. Ahl QMCJ had taken on the duties of senior medical officer. Atop all these changes, however, came a most notable gain in dignity for the young battleship. On the 18th of May 1945, the Missouri became the lighting flagship of Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, commander of the Third Fleet. To the average American newspaper reader Admiral Halsey was HBull,' Halsey, the fighting type of admiral that all Americans loved. His publicized desire to ride up the main street of Tokyo on l-lirohitois white horse brought roars of admiration from a nation that liked to know that its fighting jobs were being handled by men like Admiral Halsey. For three and a half years, Admiral Halsey had fought in practically all the major sea battles of the Pacific war. To the Japanese, his name was synonymous with United States Naval Power. eamanship and the handling of line When the ,laps attacked Pearl Harbor, Admiral Halsey was at sea with his carrier force and for weeks he exercised the sole defensive patrol of the United States in the mid-Pacific waters. . ln the first offensive action of the war in the Central Pacific he led a task force on February 1, 1942, against the Marshall and Gilbert lslands and scored a notable victory. For this action he received the Distinguished i Service Medal. I Then followed Admiral Halseyas participation in some of the vital offensive actions of the war. ln March, 1942, his task force struck Wake and Marcus 1 1 lslands and launched Major ulimmyi' Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo a h l J 1 mont ater. Appointed Commander, South Pacific Force and South Pacific Area, he directed the Battle of Santa Cruz and on November 13-15 forces under his command routed the laps in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Thrice days later President Roosevelt appointed him a full Admiral. Next in his career of cowing the ,laps were the successful battles in which Admiral Halsey 1n command of Naval Marine and Army ground and Air Forces invaded the central and northern Solomons to brin the S th P 'H g ou 301 c campaign to a successful conclusion 1n the spring of 1944. He was awarded a ld t go sar in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal by the War Department August 27 1944 as Commander Third Fleet and Commander Western Pacific Task Forces Admiral Halsey left a trail of ruin and destruction among the enemy in the Palaus Philippines Formosa Okinawa and the South China Sea Greater loss was inflicted by the Third Fleet upon the ,lapanese than any Heet of any country in history has ever inflicted upon an enem . Y lln the five months ending January 21 1945 Admiral Halsey's warships and p anes destroyed 7 315 enemy aircraft sank 90 warshlps and 573 merchant PP 3- 1 That wash the man who selected the Mzssolur to be his flagship on May 18 945 7 an onor for the new battleship that was proving its value in sea fighting When the four star Hag of the fighting admiral was hoisted aboard the Mzfsoznz the h ld h ' ' s ip e t e llhird Fleet out of Guam to put the Navyis Hnishlng 7 . ' 7 . 7 . 7 . ' . 4 . 9 7 . ' ' 7 V . 7 . 9 . 7 . . 7 7 . .7 7 Vessels for a combined total of more than a million tons of shi in f . 9' :I ya U rdf' pp. a ::f,l ,eltr I -nv' fig: 'fd T , an sf' 351 f' if 4 ' J inf' 'T v ',,., l3'T, vig 572 12 - If 351 . ,V 4- 6?-' ' .' ,, 4- 'D f 4:5 41 H 41 r vu ,Q .,f ,i ., ,, , N Ar . .fi wilt 1-.i-ati 'r ffl '-get ml mt V, N WSH b ..,-7 .,,,,.5uS M. it iw jj. ., Nw' gg Plttlf ,Q Q1-I1 W YL fgff , ,jgl . if 1 3 L1 PWM l.r1 'M' N will 11. -' 5,5 ffm '1gJ4Lj.1D fx ..,-about f j will 2915 -ml Jil' fs ' L 45, 3' Jrjgff 1 - Alf' ' ad - ' 1 ll'-7 15' 1 ,lil .v, at Q :ff 'l'i,Eh1ni 0 lv' touches on the Okinawa campaign. On the afternoon of May 27th, the ship got underway from the Hagushi anchorage oil Okinawa to give the laps a taste of the 16-inch guns. This was to be part of the continuous bombardment the Nips on southern Okinawa had been taking for two months. Here was a chance to take a direct part in helping to crack the enemyis Naha-Shuri- Yonabaru line. For fifty minutes that afternoon the Mi took various targets on the southwestern coast of Okinawa and subjected all to heavy bombardment. The ,laps offered no oi ft' . Th, M moved off to join Task Force 53. ssourfs 16-inch guns jposi lon e issouri then The next month or so was spent in the vicinity of Leyte and then, on the 15th of July, the Missouri moved north to scourge the coast of ,lapan at a spot where she was to meet her sister ships, the battlewagons Wisconsin and lowa and a number of screening destroyers. Admiral Halsey lead his bombardment lieet into action against the city of Muroran on the island of Hokkaido-the second bombardment the .laps had felt on their sacred home islands in two days, although it was the first bom bardment in which the flagship participated on the home land of Hirohito By 0930 that morning the group was squared on the bombardment course just oil the Jap mainland. At 0935, the laps, toughened though they were to monsoons and other varieties of inclement weather, felt something new in a shower of 16-inch shells that lasted for fifty minutes. The Nihon Steel Works and the Wanishi lron Vlforks were the targets for this local shower. Again, much to the surprise of the Americans, no opposition was met and the retirement to rejoin Task Force 38 was without incident. This little sortie against the Japanese home grounds merely served to strengthen Admiral Halsey's convictions that the ,laps were licked. Two days later the same force moved in to bombard industrial targets at Hitachi, only 60 miles from Tokyo. The results were the same-no opposition. ransferrlng wounded men from destroyer note blood stretcher during transzfer plasma operation in use on the i I l ueling a destroyer at sea almost an every-clay occurrence In all types of daring offensive warfare some opposition is expected from the enemy and during the afternoon of ,luly 17th, the Admiral and other fleet ofiicers certainly expected that, this time at least, the ,laps would try some form of retaliation. The target area was reached about 2300 and as the navigational position was checked, the guns trained, and the range to the target determined, all hands were alert for any type of enemy action. The weather was exceptionally poor with low visibility and a steady rain. At 2315, word was given to commence firing and the big guns of the Missouri again spoke sharply to the Japs, letting them know in what cer- tainly was no confidential whisper that the United States Navy was right there along the ,lap coast, there to stay and to destroy any remnants of will the laps might have about resisting the inexorable advance of the American Forces. The bombardment continued for the usual fifty minutes and although the radar screens spotted numerous bogies oil in the distance, none came near the Missouri or any of the other ships in the group. The Americans noted quickly that if the ,laps were willing to lake an attack lc I 0 Q 7 0 O 4 ike this lying down, then the Nlps were through with the war. W Wad, Then came August 9th . . . the day before the Japanese government made its first peace overtures. The Missouri took its last shot that day at a Ja lane not a ver o P P - Y ef Od shot, but good enough, a shot of the type the average hunter will talk about over the cocktails when he returns to the lodge for supper at night. Around 1500 of that day, it was reported that one of the picket destroyers had been crash-dived by a Jap plane and, as bogies were picked up and closing in, 4'Air Defensen was sounded. At 1600 a GRACE was sighted coming in fast. The Miss0urzf's gunfire met it at once. The Miss0uri's position in the center of the formation prevented its gunnery crews from having much of a shot. However, the 40 MM did succeed in gettin one ood shot burst. With g g all ships firing, the plane was splashed close aboard one of the carriers. A few days later the war ended and, as the editors of the MISSOURIAN, the shipls newspaper, told the shipls company: '4The Missouriis prime reason in being . . . to protect our ships and to destroy the enemy . . . had been fulfilled in a manner of which all hands could be proud. The MISSOURIAN editor continued: 44Although all the fighting and destruction of laps in the Missourfs wartime life had taken only eleven days, many were the long days and hours when the if di U 1 .N V5 pi 2 . 4 ain Battery Salvo A ff -wi fi X W xl My f In f ,S J X ,M ,Away X if ,j4z' , Q, 5 fv 7 xxx zawa A ,J A ff Sy ,s NZ W 7 X . ,!, SX? f W W N N if . mf mf' ,f Zz? 1 enior Japanese emissary apanese emissary mounts the gallery closely guarded W f ,Www 4.41 rms removed from Japanese emissaries F5 W1 It u l I 1 E 1? E N v M4 s ' ' . ., , . 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' 1 , 'Z fj fwmyw ' 55254 ,7 1 , 1' W Q f 4,40 , in ff wfm . ZWN W mfg' 7, ' MQW 5 M. 1, NW .Z ,r V' - V342 0 ' I wi t anchor in Sagami Wan . . . Fu jiama in background guns were manned and the watchful wait was kept. The days of fighting are the ones that will he remembered longest and talked of most often, but in m ' ' e ' ' ' any respects serving hy merely standing and waiting was the most difli- cult partfi .lapan's surrender was sudden. Her steady collapse had heen manifest in her lack of zest for fighting hut wers expected. D D The United States Navy alone had been pounding at the home defenses of her capitulation came sooner than the'Allied Po Japan and the United States fighting men Cgmpfisid the only military force available for the landing on Japanese soil. It became necessary, therefore, in the organization of occupation troops, to prepare a Third Fleet Landing Force. lts duty would be to move ashore in advance of the main Heetis entry into Tokyo Bay and .occupy and hold the Yokosuka Naval Base, just inside Tokyo Bay. A regiment of bluejackets was organized hurriedly by Commander lVlalone, executive officer of the Missouri, who was to serve as commanding officer of the regiment. The Missouri, itself, was directed to form a Navy Company for the landing force as well as to furnish officers for the Regimental and Bat- lalion Staffs. From the Missourfs crew were picked ,176 men and Lt. Comdr. R. .l. Matusek, USNR, was designated commander of this company from the 1 J hird Rifle Platoon l ,1 'I 1 H E YU. iii iv' :EL 1351 N Q5 econd Rifle Platoon ii iii? ommander P. C. StromhatldUrdnanceDb111i2l'? Y l nr Ill HW 3 ,. X mander P. L Su S 'l'llll1d Ordnance Disposal Group 11151 Il I LHB V FHHCE r i attalion and Company Headquarters Group airst Rifle Platoon 11l Missouri. Not one of the bluejackets had been trained as infantry men or as Marines but they leaped to the task willingly to prepare for the historic landings that were to be made. Close order drills lectures on the use of arms and other subjects were the order of the day every day for these men Gear had to be assembled and checked On August 20, the USS lowa came alongside to receive by, whip transfer the Navy Company from the Missouri and also, members of the Regimental and Battalion Staffs. In one hour and nineteen minutes, more than two hundred men and ten tons of gear were transferred while these two mighty ships of war steamed along on parallel courses less than a hundred feet apart. Later in the day a second ship-to-ship transfer was made when the party moved from the USS Iowa to the USS Monitor, an LSV which was to be the home, school and drill ground until H-Hour of D-Day. By noon of August 21, the bulk of the Navy Regiment, which soon came to be known with respect as HMalone,s Maraudersf' was aboard the Monitor, with infantry companies from Wisconsin, South Dakota, Alabama, Massachu- setts, and Indiana. Companies from the Missouri and Wisconsin formed the Fourth Battalion. The days aboard the Monitor were spent in drill and more drill. The Third Fleet Landing Force was to occupy, guard and patrol the Navy Yard area. On the morning of August 30th, word was passed to move ashore to an area in the Yokosuka Base, designated as HGreen Beach. The landing force would move ashore in four waves, seven minutes apart, with the Missouri Company landing in the first two waves. Moving on schedule over the sides of the ship into landing boats and loaded down with full equipment, the Third Fleet Landing Force handled themselves like veterans doing an old and familiar job. It had been thought that a full Marine regiment of experienced assault troops would lead the way ashore and be dug in when the impromptu occupation troops arrived. But, instead of finding a full regiment of Marine assault troops dug in ashore, it was soon discovered that only one battalion had landed. zssouri photographer on the deck of the Nogato at Yokosuka naval base Tokyo Bay . . . note Jap score of U. S. planes shot down a Q41 . ' 41, 4'lVIalone7s Maraudersf, however, poured ashore like old veterans. They found no opposition from the Japanese. There had been some speculation as to the attitude the Japanese would show toward these occupation troops but worries that another Jap trick was being planned were soon dispelled. The Third Fleet Landing Force moved to the assigned bivouac area which was the Japanese Gunnery School about a half mile from 4'Green Beach. The most vivid impression HlVlalone's Maraudersw remember today of that landing was the stifling odors of decaying sewage and decaying fish in the garbage dumps. Lt. Comdr. T. Scott QMCD USNR, of the Missouri, the Regimental Surgeon, soon had the area disinfected and the garbage dis- posed of. The Missouri Company was assigned the top floor in the Gunnery School Barracks. Although the barracks were quite clean, a good Navy field day was held to make it truly ship-shape. Enlisted personnel slept in hammocks while the oflicers slept on tables without the comfort of mattresses which the medical officers ordered to be removed. The use of all Japanese water and food was prohibitedg all food and water for the landing party being limited to what could be hauledashore. In carrying out assigned duties, the Landing Force was organized into sentry watches, in addition to the supply of working parties and guards in the uGreen Beachi' area. Japanese munition dumps were guarded. At the entrance of every cave and tunnels in the hills guards were placed. Nucleus crews were placed aboard Japanese ships in the harbor. The watches were long and the weather terrible for the first three days. By the night of the third day, how- ever, Pay Clerk E. Odom, USN, of the Missouri, had established himself ashore and had set up HODOTVVS STEW PLACE,77 an open air cafeteria Jr which specialized in hot coffee and C rations. 'cOdom,s Stew Palacew was the 'ff , brightest spot of the occupation base, a fine example of the ingenuity of the American bluejacket properly supervised by a competent officer. k i'ii'V.i . apanese engine room Coln Nogato ,. 4 1 pg-gbuonlliedefl , ,, vqntkakmmval - 'fuk' 1-lflap an .-hhudovn 1 1 The Missouri was in the dead center of the wind-up of this war. Aboard the Missouri, first Contact was made between United States and Japanese oiiicials. Seven days before the surrender ceremonies, the Missouri took aboard Japanese ernissaries and pilots to obtain vital information on ininehelds and harbor conditions in Sagami Wan and Tokyo Bay, where the United States ships were to enter. x,,,,,,.-.--H apanese at entrance to tunnel--Yokosuka Naval Base Carrying Admiral Halsey, the flagship of the Third Fleet, sailed into Sagami Wan on August 27 for a rendezvous with a Japanese destroyer carry- ing Nipponese naval officers and pilots. The U.S.S. Nicholas, a destroyer, moving ahead of the flagship, took aboard eighteen Japanese by small boat transfer. Over their bitter protests, the Japanese were relieved of their beloved samurai swords and daggers. The Nicholas then moved alongside the Missouri and transferred the Japanese by boatswains chair. A r apanese naval officers Peering from the bridge, Admiral Halsey grinned as he watched their arrival and his smile grew wider as each glum-faced Jap was swung aboard. The Admiral did not meet the visitors but entrusted that duty to his Chief of Stali, Rear Admiral Carney. The Japanese, searched again by Marine Guards, were led to the Captainis cabin where they were rigorously cross-examined by Rear Admiral Carney and other staff oliicers. Charts of Sagami and Tokyo Wan, as well as other Japanese waters, were scrutinized and the enemy called upon to specify the location of his minefields. The information thus obtained proved accurate, after thorough checking and re-checking. The Fleet was able to move into Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremonies without incident., ,f Iii X X 4? 3 I he Missouri leads the way into Japanese home waters . . . seen here entering Sagami Wan HE NTISSOURI had its destiny to fulfill. President Truman, when he was a United States Senator from Mis- souri delivering the oration of the, day at the launching of the Missouri just 20 months before had predicted: '4Big Mo, with batteries blazing, will sail into Tokyo Bayf, Big Mo accomplished her mission. True, her batteries were not blazing on that day she sailed into Tokyo Bay but there was no need. The laps were whipped. The blazing batteries on Big Mo had helped bring about a peaceful entry into Tokyo Bay and there-Big Mo not only took the center of the stage, but Big Mo was the stage. lx 1 5 sl l' If YI A 1 1 X f 4 I 4 . 1 N X f ff day will make the trim USS Missouri of today obsolete ready to be dis mantled But that deck of the Mzssourz upon which was staged this final surrender of an Axis power will always have value as a museum piece in America at least There in Tokyo Bay on the deck of the Mzssourz the crushed and disap pointed Japs were signing the peace their bombastic war lords once had pred1cted would be signed in the White House at Washington It was a notable scene On the morning of September 2 Admiral of the Fleet Chester W N1Hl1tZ USN arrived on board at 0802 with his staff High ranking Army and Navy oH'icers began coming aboard shortly after 0800 Generals Stillwell Krueger Hodges Spaatz Kenney Doolittle and Eichelberger were among the Army leaders present Perhaps the most notable figure of all was General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who carried the iight at Corregidor to its bitter conclusion in 1942 and was released shortly after the Japanese gave up the fight, shortly before the Instrument of Surrender was to be signed He had spent three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, three years of stoic suliering. The Navy was represented by men who had made history-Admirals Halsey, Turner, Towers, McCain, Lockwood, Sherman and others, Lieutenant General Geiger represented the United States Marine Corps. At 0830 representatives of the Allied Powers began coming aboard. The Republic of China was represented by General Hsu Yung-Chang, the United Kingdom by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, CCB, KBEQ the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Lieutenant General Kuzma Nikola evish Derevyankog the Commonwealth of Australia by General Sir Thomas Blameyg the Dominion of Canada by Colonel L. Moore Cosgraveg the Republic of France by General Jacques LeClercg the Commonwealth of New Zealand by Air Vice Marshal lsittg the United Kingdom of the Netherlands by Admiral Helfrich. Scores of photographers swarmed over the ship, placing themselves to shoot this historic occasion from all angles. he Japanese delegation apanese representatives face their conquerors The gallery deck on the starboard side of the ship was the stage. Representatives .of the Allied Powers were grouped facing forward with senior representatives in the front row backed up by their juniors, with Adrg11raliN1m1tz outboard. American Army and Navy officers were facing out oar in several lines from alongside turret Two and aft. A few minutes before 0900 General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Com- mander for the Allied Powers, arrived aboard. He was brought aboard from a destroyer which came alongside to port, where he was met by Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Halsey and Captain Murray. General MacArthur proceeded to Admiral Halsey's cabin for a short conference with Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey. ' At 0855 a Miss-ouri boat brought the Japanese delegation to the gangway. The Japanese party consisted of Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, General Yoshijiro Umezo, Chief of Staff, Japanese Army Headquartersg Katsuo Okazaki, Director General, Central Liaison Ofiiceg Shunichi Kase, Director Number One Government Information Bureaug Lieutenant General Shuichi Miyakazi, representing Army General Headquartersg Major General Yatsuji Nagai, Army Staffg Rear Admiral Tadatoski Tomioko, representing Naval General Headquartersg Rear Admiral Ichiro Yokovama, Navy Headquarters, and Captain Katsuo Shiba, Navy Headquarters. It was not possible for all the men of the Missouri to actually yiew the ceremony, the necessity for orderliness befitting the solemnity and dignity of such a world-important event having been impressed upon them. Even so, the moving picture cameras and the newspaper still shots showed oreign Minister Shigemitsu signs surrender for Japan the X2IefCm0Hy Staged in a setting that was typically American Every spot on .Cd ilsgouri that offered a vantage point for a bluejacket spectator was occu- P19 - 6 huge battlewagon was outlined with clean typical American men' all of them a bit eager to see all the famous persons of whom they had heard and read. It was early morning on the Missouri in Tokyo Bay, it was early evening back in the homes of America where every radio was the focal point of family ears tuned 1n to catch the world broadcast of the event The world was hearing about the battleship Missouri, the most highly the battleship Oregon! And the world was listening. The end of the war with Japan gave theuaverage American civilian far more satisfaction than had the end of the war in Europe The American heart was in the European struggle but the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the ,laps had made this event seem as though a stain had been wiped off the national escutcheon The bluejackets aboard the Missouri wisecracked, out of the corners of their mouths in true American spirit, as they watched the undersized Nipponese statesmen and military figures who had given a vitamin-fed nation so much trouble over the last four years These interested spectators were sitting on guns and gun carriages on higher decks, some were high up in the super- structure, as though they were getting a press box view of a football game. The whole ceremony, however, guided by the man of detached habits, who is General MacArthur, went along smoothly, quietly, efficiently, all in the best of taste. publicized since the days of the old melodrama: Hurrah, boys, here comes The Japanese delegation mounted the gallery deck and took positions facing aft towards the assembly of representatives of the Allied Powers. The military figures were in their peculiarly-fitting Japanese uniforms, the political leaders and the Japanese propagandists and newspaper correspondents in shiny top hats, sculfed frock morning coats and striped trousers. Their faces were masked in that inscrutable Oriental camouflage for the emotions. Promptly at 0900, General Douglas MacArthur came from Admiral Halsey's cabin on the Missouri and took his position in front of the battery of micro- phones, through which this drama was to be heard in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, in all the cities, towns, hamlets and farmhouses of the world wherever there was a radio. - One of the microphones picked up the Generalls speech and carried it throughout the ship so that any member of the Missouri crew unable to view the ceremony could hear as much as possible at their stations throughout the monster floating city. General MacArthur spoke briefly, unemotionally, describing the importance of the event in its bearing on an end to a war that sprawled over the vast reaches of the Pacific. He wasted little time, as no general or admiral does, on bombastic theory. He described the military situation and let it go at that. At the conclusion of his speech, General MacArthur requested the represen- tatives of Japan to advance and sign the documents which were spread on a green, cloth-covered mess table. A highly-polished table from H .M.S. King George V, which had been brought aboard to use for this purpose, was not used because it was too small to support the 'two large duplications of the Articles of Surrender. - Letis borrow a paragraph from the transcript of Merrill Mueller's NBC broadcast from the deck of the USS Missouri on that eventful day in Tokyo Bay: 6'Mr Mamoru Shigemitsu, Foreign Minister of the Japanese Government, is stepping forward to sit down at the table and sign the Instrument of Sur- render. His will be the first signature on behalf of Japan, surrendering all Japanese armed forces and committing the Japanese people to obey all orders of the Supreme Commander, General MacArthur, through the office of the Japanese Emperor. Shigemitsu limps. He has a wooden leg, incidentally. He is dressed in the formal attire of the Foreign Office. He came aboard just Da few minutes ago. There's a question about Shigemitsu here, since he was in the war cabinet and recently was put into the peace cabinet of the Japanese Government. He might be examined later as a war criminal, although that point can be brought up later .... Here comes Mr. Shigemitsu, General Mac- Arthur. General MacArthur is standing behind the microphones over which he has just talked. He is waiting, here comes Mr. Shigemitsu now .... Mr. Shigemitsu has signed the American copy, he is now signing the Japanese C0Tlia.tfs.a sample of the way the story was carried move by move by the broadcasters to every radio station in the world. The world sat with its ear W f f X fb ff W ff ff! 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The Japanese then accepted the document and left the ship to be returned to the destroyer which would return them Lo the shore. - 1 One of the busiest spots on the Missouri that day was the Shipis Post Office. A special cancellation stamp, to he used only on that day, kept the five-man apanese delegation departs llled representatives sign N Q a --Q Viz. . 'xx'q-- 7' ,-. .Q 'fl ' '-O 'H W--'wi WW vm 8 , ,fl TM., 'ff Wi Vw s sf n N nn . -1 rd. A pta s 1 . mu ihi .4 .Un 321'-Q ONXE5 SURRENDER CERE-M to right Qtopb 1. General MacArthur dmirm Chester W. Nimitz e Delegation. on From Kei: A arrives, escorted by Fhcet A and Admirm W. F. Halsey. 2. japames 3. Gen. MAKCAYYHUY Opens Ceremonies. 4. Mr, Niam Shigemitsu signs ior japarfs Government. 5. Generad Ummm for me japanese Military Forces. Aklied Powers. U S A. 8. Gen. Hsu Fraser Ol l Yoshigim Arthur for ' irnimz for . . ' Sir Bruce A io! 66 ii . en. Mac Camera 7. Adrfxxralbl Yungilhang ior China. 9. Advmral for Great Britain. 10. Gen. Sir Thomas Bmmey Pnustrmia. Bottom: ll. Col. L. Moure Cosgfave io: Canada. 12. General jacques LeCXerc for France. 13. Admired Hdirich for the Netherlands, 14. Air Vice Mafshzm Xsitt. for New Zeahnd. lg. Gen. MacArthur closes ceremonies. 16. japanese depart. 9 f Z w sw ! WWW' f 4 ff G Q, 44, N KIZZIL ,X I , K. V SX W , 1 -WWW v ' ff iv ,., Av 1: f crew of th estlmatet some 15,000 pieces of mail. Deslgged Ellid .executed by Donald G. Droddy, CSF, the stamp bore the Hiordslg USS MLSSOWB Tokyo Bav, .Japanese Formal Surrenderf' and the ate. ach member. of the.Missouri,s crew was allowed to write five letters to be stamped with this special cancellation. Most of the men took advantage of the offer. The stamp had to be affixed by hand and it was a credit to the Post Office Crew that the final cancellation on all letters was done prior to the deadline which was midnight, 2 September 1945. Another busy spot was the print shop. Although the preparation for the surrender ceremonies involved all hands aboard, some certain sections were called .upon for special extra efforts. One of the chief desires of all persons attending the ceremony was to have some souvenir or symbol of the ceremony. Under the acting Executive Officer, Commander H. B. Lyon, USN, a card bearing the signatures of representatives of the United States attesting to the presence of an individual was devised. e Post Office close to the mail room stamping, according to an The cards were printed on card board in two colors with the lettering printed in black over a representation of the rising sun, printed in red. The cards were inscribed with the words: uCertifying to the presence of findi- y,idual's,pamej at the formal surrender of the Japanese Forces to the Allied owers. The cards bore the signatures of Captain Murray, General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey. The print shop also turned out a limited number of post cards, the limit being because of the shortage of materials. These were popular as souvenirs among the visitors that day. The post cards bore on the address side a picture of the magnificent saddle presented to Admiral Halsey by the Reno, Nevada, Chamber of Commerce, and on the reverse side: HGreetings from Tokyo Bayf with a picture of the Missouri at sea. Prominently displayed at the surrender ceremonies was the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry, U. S. Navy, on the occasion of his visit to Japan more than ninety years before this event staged on the Missouri. The flag had been brought by air from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, especially for display at these ceremonies in 1945. Commodore Perry had been entrusted in 1852 with a letter from President Fillmore to the Emperor of Japan, which had as its purpose the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan. The mission was one requiring cool diplomacy, an astute approach and patience with the Japanese mind, which is almost unfathomable to the Occidental. Commodore Perry had some strange experiences. One, for instance, was when, in waiving a point of precedence, he went to the Japanese ship anchored near his flagship and, instead of being met with the usual honors befitting the Naval and diplomatic representative of a great nation, was shoved sprawling back into his boat by a soldier at the gangway of the Japanese ship. He did succeed in delivering the Presidentis letter, although the Japanese had ordered him to go to Nagasaki instead of Yedo, where the safe delivery was made. He returned again in 1854, bringing with him more ships to make a stronger show of force and concluded at Yokohama the treaty which in- augurated a new chapter in the history of J apan-a chapter which was con- cluded on board the USS Missouri just a few miles from the place where the first treaty was signed. The Missoiiri's personnel, officers and men, were responsible for the pre- cision with which the surrender ceremonies were handled. The ship, itself, fresh from the rough usage that is natural when a war is being fought, had to be prepared for the big event, and as is customary, field day was held for days in advance. Paint was scraped off and fresh paint added where needed, platforms were built and scores of other small, but necessary, details handled. The band and the Marine Guard of Honor were rehearsed so that their evolutions would proceed with clock-like precision. Officer Escorts for all visiting dignitaries were instructed in their duties, under the direction .of Commander H. V. Bird, USN. A complete schedule had to be worked out with the Third Fleet Staff so that every phase of the ceremony would be perfectly timed. The operations of small boats was no small part of the ceremony. The success of the efforts of the Missourfs personnel was recognized in the congratulatory message of Admiral Nimitz who praised the efficiency with which the entire dayis proceedings were carried off. To all hands went az MWELL DONE! 3 ,Mugtpi ' mmimakili mi-hqlqln HH 1 ' EPTENIB t Pearl Harbor, Captain Murray receives a plaque from the Missourians employed at Pearl Harbor lt6,l945... . . . FOUR DAYS after the historic ceremonies, the Missouri lifted anchor and moved majestically out of Tokyo Bay-a famous ship, in the ending of the war and the establishment of peace. A ship less than two years old! The journey was down to Guam, thence eastward to Hawaii, where it paused for several days at that famous spot in the Pacific where the whole trouble had started. At Honolulu, Admiral Nimitz entertained his friends of the Naval Forces and of the islands, at a reception on September 28, aboard the Missouri. At that reception, Admiral Nimitz presented a third gold star to Admiral Halsey, in lieu of the fourth Distinguished Service Medal. This presentation occurred on the very spot aboard the ship, where less than a month before, Japan had signed the formal articles of surrender. - f f X I f f 1 f f f 1 1 f X f f 5 l f I V R ll 4 J-d- .vii lssourz Hlts First Port The nrughty battleship Mlssourz lS shown as she passed the Hotel Chamberlaln off Hampton Roads enroute to Pler 5 at the Naval Operatmg Base, Norfolk, Vlrglnla on Thursday afternoon, October 13 The MISSOUTI, stopplng here for supplies before shovlng off to New York and Navy Day, was welcomed amld a tumultuous celebratlon by all naval vessels present She brought back 603 passengers from the P30160 HE MISSOURI made her second transit of the Panama Canal en route to her starting point, New York. This second transit was not made in all the hush- hush of War time. 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