USS Missouri BB-63 1990 1991 Operation Desert Storm Desert Shield Cruisebook

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USS Missouri (BB 63)
1990-1991
Meeting the challenge - A call to crisis
Operation Desert Shield
Operation Desert Storm
November 13, 1990- May 13, 1991
304 page 9.25" X 12.25" illustrated hardcover cruisebook
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Contents
Missouri history
Underway: crisis calls
Christmas at sea
Desert Shield
Desert Storm
Heading home
The crew
Missouri scenes
Men of Missouri
Missouri 's scheduled four-month Western Pacific port-to-port cruise set to begin in September was canceled just a few days before the ship was to leave. She had been placed on hold in anticipation of being mobilized as forces continued to mass in the Middle East. Missouri departed on 13 November 1990 for the troubled waters of the Persian Gulf. She departed from Pier 6 at Long Beach, with extensive press coverage, and headed for Hawaii and the Philippines for more work-ups enroute to the Persian Gulf. Along the way she made stops at Subic Bay and Pattaya Beach, Thailand, before transiting the Strait of Hormuz on 3 January 1991. During subsequent operations leading up to Operation Desert Storm, Missouri prepared to launch Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) and provide naval gunfire support as required.
Missouri fired her first Tomahawk missile at Iraqi targets at 01:40 am on 17 January 1991, followed by 27 additional missiles over the next five days. On 29 January, the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate Curts led Missouri northward, using advanced mine-avoidance sonar. In her first naval gunfire support action of Desert Storm she shelled an Iraqi command and control bunker near the Saudi border, the first time her 16 in. (410 mm) guns had been fired in combat since March 1953 off Korea.
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