The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) is arguably one of the most famous ships. On this very ship, General Yoshijiro Umezu signed the instrument of surrender on behalf of Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese armed forces on 02 September 1945, bringing final closure to the Second World War. The USS Missouri was constructed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and commissioned on the 11 th of June 1944. She was the last of the iconic Iowa-class battleships ever built and quite naturally for a battleship, heavily armed. USS Missouri was equipped with nine "Mark 7" 16-inch guns which fired 2,700 pound shells over a distance of 20 miles. In addition she carried twenty “Mark 12” 5-inch guns, 49 "Oerlikon" 20 millimeter cannons and eigthy “Borfors” 40 millimeter guns. USS Missouri fought the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Takijiro Onishi contrived and set up the first Kamikaze Special Attack Unit with nearly 2,800 Kamikaze planes sent to their suicidal one-way missions. They damaged 368 ships and were responsible for the sinking of 34 more. The attacks also accounted for over 4900 Navy sailor and Marine deaths, leaving another 4,800 wounded. On April 11 th , 1945, USS Missouri was hit by a Kamikaze plane, piloted by either Petty Officer 2 nd Class Setsuo Ishino or same ranking Kenkichi Ishii. The 1000-pound bomb that the Japanese fighter carried did not explode. U.S. Navy sailor Harold Campbell caught on camera when the Petty Officer was about to hit USS Missouri