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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!
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