　「ミズーリ」は、アメリカ海軍のアイオワ級戦艦の3番艦です。同艦は、就役後すぐにニューヨーク沖での慣熟訓練及びチェサピーク湾での戦闘訓練をこなし、日本近海へ進出。日本本土空爆・硫黄島攻略支援、沖縄攻略支援、空母護衛任務に従事しました。日本のポツダム宣言受諾後の1945年9月2日、この艦上で降伏文書調印式が執り行われました。第二次世界大戦と、その後の朝鮮戦争での任務終了後、「ミズーリ」は長期にわたりモスボール保管されましたが、1984年にはトマホークキャリアとして再就役。湾岸戦争参加後の1992年3月31日、遂に48年に及ぶ活動に終止符を打ち、現在は真珠湾で記念艦として保存されています。
　作品は、戦艦「ミズーリ」が竣工直後に大西洋で行った慣熟訓練での一コマをイメージして制作したものです。高速戦艦が波濤を切り裂きながら大海原を航行する姿は、美しいですが、同時に一種の畏怖の念を抱かせます。艦を覆う美しい曲線的な迷彩は、対潜/対水上幻惑のメジャー32デザイン22Dと呼ばれるパターンで、竣工した1944年6月から僅か5ヶ月間のみ施されていました。日米戦参戦の直前には、艦の上下を2トーンで塗り分けるメジャー22迷彩に変更されており、この作品で描かれている姿を当時の日本人が見る事はありませんでした。

The Missouri was the third of the U.S. Navy's Iowa class battleships. Immediately after her commissioning, she conducted familiarization training off the coast of New York and combat training in Chesapeake Bay before entering the waters around Japan. After that, she cruised off the coast of the Japanese Home islands, supported bombing of the home islands, the invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and provided protection for aircraft carriers. On September 2, 1945, after Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, the signing ceremony of the Instrument of Surrender was held on the Missouri. After completing her service in World War II and the subsequent Korean War, she was mothballed for an extended period, but was recommissioned as a Tomahawk carrier in 1984. On March 31, 1992, after participating in the Gulf War, she finally ended her 48 years of service and is now preserved as a memorial ship at Pearl Harbor.
　This work depicts a scene from a familiarization exercise conducted by the battleship Missouri in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after her completion. The sight of a high-speed battleship cutting through the waves and navigating the open sea is beautiful, but at the same time, it is a kind of awful sight. The beautifully curved camouflage covering her is a pattern called Major 32 Design 22D, an anti-submarine/anti-surface illusion pattern, and was applied for only five months from June 1944, when the ship was completed. Just prior to her participation in the war against Japan, she was changed to the Major 22 camouflage, in which the top and bottom of the ship are painted in two tones, and the Japanese of the time never saw her as depicted in this work.