AFTER MISSOURI’S INITIAL SUSTAINED SHELLING OF THE ISLAND, WISCONSIN SENT ITS PIONEER BUZZING OVER IRAQI HEADS IN PREPARATION FOR ANOTHER BARRAGE, DURING WHICH IRAQI SOLDIERS COULD BE SEEN LOOKING UP BLINDLY INTO THE AIR WAVING MAKESHIFT WHITE FLAGS SIGNALING THEIR SURRENDER.
IT WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME AN ENEMY SURRENDERED TO AN UNMANNED VEHICLE AND A TESTAMENT AS TO HOW BRUTALLY POWERFUL THE BATTLESHIPS’ MAIN BATTERY WERE, EVEN IN THE MODERN ERA OF SO CALLED “SMART WARFARE.”; U.S.S. MISSOURI