The U.S.S. Missouri is a former active NAVY ship and now a floating museum that is now docked at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor.
It became involved in a hostage situation in Ho'apono where Graham Wilson, a Navy SEAL took a group of tourists on-board hostage after being declared the main suspect in the death of his wife, Noreen.
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Commissioned on the 11th June 1944, the Missouri was the last major battleship commissioned into the US Navy that had saw action in the final months of the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War. During her service in the Second World War, the Missouri had taken part in the Battle of Iwo Jima from the 19th February to the 26th March 1945 and the Battle of Okinawa from the 1st April to the 22nd June 1945 as well the shelling of the Japanese home islands. While anchored in Tokyo Bay, the quarterdeck on the Missouri was used for the signing of the Japanese surrender on the 2nd September 1945, ending the Second World War.
The Missouri was later recommissioned for service in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 and then later the Gulf War from January to February 1991, seeing action in both Operation Desert Shield and Storm. It was while the vessel was being refitted in Long Beach for the 1989 Pacific Exercise that the Missouri was allowed by the Navy to be used as a film location for Cher's music video for If I Could Turn Back Time with the intention to boost naval recruitment. The music video had also featured the Missouri's officers and crew appearing in their white ceremonial dress uniform. The music video had also resulted in the US Navy receiving criticism from Second World War Veterans and their families who had viewed the music video as "a desecration of a national historic site".