USS Missouri leaves Brooklyn Navy Yard and anchored off Bayonne, New Jersey. On July 13, Missouri entered dry dock at Bayonne, NJ, for once over and to have radar antenna installed, which if Missouri had attached leaving Brooklyn, it would have scraped the Brooklyn...
The United States Ship Missouri is commissioned in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Senator Harry Truman (later Vice President & president) attending and Captain William M. Callaghan, USN, Commanding Officer. Plank owners numbered 2,451.
While some of her crew were already aboard Battleship Missouri, handling pre-commissioning duties, 1,500 officers and men came from Newport, by ship and by train, to complete the ship’s complement.
