New Mighty Mo tour pits 'reel life' against real life

By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 03, 2012

~~<p>In the climactic scene of the movie "Battleship," the 68-year-old USS Missouri returns to service in a last-ditch effort to save Earth from alien invaders. A 1,000-foot steel chain, each link weighing more than 100 pounds, drops the venerable warship's anchor to the ocean floor to steady its position. Smoke shoots from its mammoth guns along with 1,900-pound projectiles. As the aliens respond with deadly force of their own, the formidable vessel makes a sharp port turn to avoid being hit.</p>
<p>For the past 13 years, the Mighty Mo, as the Missouri is affectionately known, has been moored at Pier F5 in Pearl Harbor as a floating museum called the Battleship Missouri Memorial. Its live ammunition was removed long ago, but thanks to computer-generated imagery, it's appearing on the silver screen as the hero of Universal Pictures' latest action-packed release.</p>
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<strong>» Place:</strong> Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pier F5, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor
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In the climactic scene of the movie "Battleship," the 68-year-old USS Missouri returns to service in a last-ditch effort to save Earth from alien invaders. A 1,000-foot steel chain, each link weighing more than 100 pounds, drops the venerable warship's anchor to the ocean floor to steady its position. Smoke shoots from its mammoth guns along with 1,900-pound projectiles. As the aliens respond with deadly force of their own, the formidable vessel makes a sharp port turn to avoid being hit.

For the past 13 years, the Mighty Mo, as the Missouri is affectionately known, has been moored at Pier F5 in Pearl Harbor as a floating museum called the Battleship Missouri Memorial. Its live ammunition was removed long ago, but thanks to computer-generated imagery, it's appearing on the silver screen as the hero of Universal Pictures' latest action-packed release. BATTLESHIP, THE MOVIE TOUR » Place: Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pier F5, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor Login for more...