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80-G-365725 USS Missouri (BB-63)

Photo #: 80-G-365725 USS Missouri (BB-63)
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Description: A game of cards in the Flag Cabin, while the ship was en route to Istanbul, Turkey, 3 April 1946. Those present are (left to right): Alexander W. Weddell, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey; Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Captain Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, Missouri's Commanding Officer, and M. Kadri Rizan, Turkish Minister of Protocol. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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