The USS Missouri (BB-63) last served in the Korean War.

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False. While USS Missouri fought in the Korean War (1950–53), it wasn’t her last service. Reactivated in the 1980s, the Iowa-class battleship returned for Operation Desert Storm in 1991, launching Tomahawk cruise missiles and firing her 16-inch guns at Iraqi targets. She was decommissioned in 1992—so the Gulf War, not Korea, marked her final combat role.

Context helps cement this: Missouri bookends U.S. 20th-century naval power—from hosting Japan’s surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945 to firing modern missiles in 1991. Today she’s a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, poignantly facing the sunken USS Arizona. Memory tip: “From surrender to Storm”—WWII’s end to Desert Storm’s salvos—reminds you Korea wasn’t the last chapter.