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On This Day: USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future... (1944)

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On June 11, 1944: USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned. This historical event can ...

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