Thursday July 12
Luke and I are off to Pearl Harbour to board the USS Missouri.
I'm betting he's a Trump supporter.
The Mighty Mo. Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. In the Pacific Theatre of World War II she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands, and she fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. She was decommissioned in 1955 into the United States Navy reserve fleets (the "Mothball Fleet"), but reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, and provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in January/February 1991.
She is 270m long and is 46,000 tonnes.
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who directed the War of the Pacific
The actual spot of the formal surrender of Japan in WWII.
Missouri's main battery consisted of nine 16 in 50 cal Mark 7 guns, which could fire 1,200 kg armour-piercing shells some 32km.
Kamikaze pilots.
Submarine USS Bowfin
Ballistic missile.
The girls joined us to visit the USS Arizona Memorial.
Ready for dinner.
Fake mints.
Friday July 13 - We toured Oahu in a Ford Mustang GT V8.
Swimming and snorkelling on the North Shore.
Lunch at the famous . . .
We visited the beautiful Waimea Valley and its botanical gardens.
The famous Waimea Bay surf spot. Clearly not the right season.
Pineapple farm.
This gets projected on the floor by the Mustang.
