End of WWII Marked Aboard the Mighty Mo
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of veterans were among the thousands who gathered at the battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor for a ceremony marking the official end of World War II.
The 90-minute ceremony featured a 21-gun salute, and the Hawaii Air National Guard flew fighter jets overhead in the missing-man formation.
It was 60 years ago that Japan signed surrender documents on the decks of the Missouri as it lay at anchor in Tokyo Bay.
The Missouri is a floating memorial in Pearl Harbor several hundred yards from the Arizona Memorial.
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