Following a three-month, $18 million makeover, the USS Missouri returned to her old berth in Pearl Harbor looking shipshape and seemingly brand new.
With a new deck, clean underbelly and fresh coat of paint, the USS Missouri is currently back open to visitors as of January 15, 2010. She was in dry dock for a little under a month, hiding in Pearl Harbor where she was restored and brought back to life more beautiful than before.
BAE Systems is the company that did the preservation and restoration work while in drydock, and during a VIP ceremony U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye announced that the USS Missouri will "stand as a memorial for generations to come to remember what the men in women in World War II did."
You can visit the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor by purchasing tickets at the Pearl Harbor Visitors Center (currently located at the USS Bowfin Submarine Park) and catching a trolley across the Ford Island Bridge to where she is tethered to Pier Foxtrot-5 right along the USS Arizona Memorial.
Visit the USS Missouri's website at The Battleship Missouri Memorial
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