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  2. USS Missouri (BB-63) - Wikipedia

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    Motto "Strength for Freedom" [1] Nickname(s) ... USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa ... when the first of an eventual total of 380,000 People's Liberation Army soldiers ...

  3. List of warships by nickname - Wikipedia

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    "Mighty Mo" – USS Missouri "Mighty Moo" – USS Cowpens "Mobile Chernobyl" – USS Enterprise "Moskvitch" – Finnish navy Tuima class missile boats. Soviet-built Moskvitch cars had notoriously poor reputation in Finland. "Motel 6" – USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) "Midway Magic" – USS Midway (CV-41)

  4. List of United States Armed Forces unit mottoes - Wikipedia

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    The shoulder sleeve insignia of the XVIII Airborne Corps bears its motto, Sky Dragons. XVIII Airborne Corps - Sky Dragons [2] 82nd Airborne Division - "All the way! or Death from Above; 101st Airborne Division - Rendezvous with Destiny [2] 71st Airborne Brigade - Go Texans Go [2] 173rd Airborne Brigade - Sky Soldiers [2]

  5. List of military unit mottoes by country - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan Marines (Urdu: پا مير ينز) Motto : (English translation: "And hold fast to the rope of God and do not be divided") Pakistan Coast Guards Motto : Defending and Protecting what is Rightfully Ours) Airport Security Forces Pakistan Motto (Urdu: ہر دم تیار) (English Translation: Always Ready)

  6. USS Missouri - Wikipedia

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    USS Missouri (1841), a sidewheel frigate launched in 1841 and destroyed by fire in August 1843; USS Missouri (BB-11), a Maine-class battleship in service from 1900 to 1922. USS Missouri (BB-63), an Iowa-class battleship in service (variably) from 1944 to 1992; site of the official Japanese surrender of World War II; now a floating war memorial ...

  7. Robert Edward Cox - Wikipedia

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    Cox was born December 22, 1876, in St. Albans, West Virginia and after joining the navy was stationed aboard the USS Missouri (BB-11). On April 13, 1904, the Missouri was engaging in target practice when one of the ships 12" guns "flared back". As the breech was opened for reloading, hot gases were released into the turret, causing it to catch ...

  8. List of Allied ships at the Japanese surrender - Wikipedia

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    These ships of the Allied navies of World War II were present in Tokyo Bay on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945) when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63).

  9. William M. Callaghan - Wikipedia

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    USS Missouri permanently anchored as a museum ship at Pearl Harbor in 2002. At the rank of commander, Callaghan captained the destroyer USS Reuben James from June 1936 to March 1938, [12] and subsequently joined the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1939. [13] Before the US entered World War II, he was stationed in London in a ...