![]() That effort involved our carefully considered decision to focus our restoration efforts on the potentially achievable objective of returning the ship to her 1991 configuration, specifically, as she existed during “Operation remembrance”, the 50 th anniversary commemoration of the December 7 th attack on Pearl Harbor. That initial review of spaces and ideas was followed by EPA inspection and remediation, where possible and cost-effective, followed by initial restoration/presentation projects associated with designated routes and viewable compartments, working hard to make them presentation ready. We worked together to determine potential topics of interest, relevant locations, storylines, interesting and accessible spaces, and workable tour routes. We began the initial survey of potentially viewable, accessible spaces before we even opened Battleship Missouri to the public in January 1999. Navy Photograph, National Archives collection. Gilge, makes his "rounds" during Missouri’s 1944 shakedown cruise, as Pharmacist's Mate 2/c Frank Mancini stands by. USS Missouri WWII-era Senior Medical Officer, Commander Louis E. ![]()
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