5/6/1986 Missouri moored at San Francisco. On May 10, Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger placed the Missouri into commission. Captain Albert Lee Kaiss, USN assumed command. 5/10/1986 Moored at San Francisco, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger placed the...
1/1/1986 Missouri moored at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard thru January 28. 1/28/1986 Missouri underway off southern California for machinery sea trials. 4/30/1986 Missouri’s status changed to “in service special.” Long Beach Naval...
On day two of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, gunmen forced the jetliner to fly from Algeria to Lebanon, where the hijackers killed one of the passengers, US Navy diver Robert D. Stethem. A USS Missouri Memorial Service was held at his grave site in Arlington...
5/14/1984 Missouri, under tow, leaves Bremerton, WA for Long Beach, CA Naval Shipyard for preparations for recommissioning. 8/11/1984 Missouri dry-docked at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in preparation of recommissioning. 1/1/1985 Missouri dry docked at the Long Beach...
