The following 40 second silent clip is from a home video recorded by Bob McFarland, who worked at the Brooklyn Shipyard at the time of the Missouri’s launch. Mr. McFarland filmed the Missouri’s launch from one of the nearby scaffolds.

This clip is part of a larger VHS tape gifted by the McFarland family to the USS Missouri.

• JJ's Photo Gallery: A Visit to Pearl Harbor May, 2008.
• Visit our other USS Missouri related pages and videos.
• Ford Murray's photos of USS Missouri prior to the move.
• Photo gallery: Mighty Mo ready for a makeover.

We hope to soon be adding photos from the first rivet on 6 January, 1941 to launch day, 29 January, 1944.

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