A Small Canadian Mistake on the USS Missouri Nearly Halted Japan’s Surrender A peace treaty effecting the end of the second World War is being signed aboard the USS Missouri. Admiral Chester Nimitz of ...

As USS Missouri was providing artillery support to friendly forces during the first days of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, a completely unexpected event occurred near Kuwait's coast. On February 24, ...

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army. Decommissioned in the 1950s as nuclear ...

Launched in 1944, the USS Missouri (or "Mighty Mo") is best known for hosting a meeting between Allied and Axis representatives that led to Japan's surrender and the end of World War II. After the war ...

A single lane of eastbound Interstate 70 is set to close in Columbia during the first weekend in October. The closure will begin at 7 p.m. Oct. 3 and last through 6 a.m. Oct. 6, according to a news ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – St. Louis County residents learned more on Thursday about a resurfacing and improvements plan slated for a section of Old Halls Ferry Road, extending from New Halls Ferry Road ...

Crews working with the Columbia Public Works Department may briefly close a few residential streets in central Columbia next week for bike lane repainting. This project is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m.

Japan's aggression across Asia during WWII is an undeniable fact. Yet, for eight decades, there have been repeated attempts within Japan to soften, distort or even deny that part of history. Setting ...

The National Archives has recovered the volume, which includes more than 500 pages of data from March 1941 to June 1942. It had been tucked away in storage for half a century Donald McPherson shot ...

Key Points and Summary - Raytheon unveiled the APG-82(V)X AESA radar for the F-15EX at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference, promising more range, target capacity, and survivability. -Building on the ...