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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-365725

USS Missouri (BB-63)


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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21 January 1999