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Photo #: 80-G-366179

USS Missouri (BB-63)
(center)

Off Istanbul, Turkey, 5-9 April 1946. She had brought the body of the Late Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Mehmet Munir Ertegun, home for burial, on a mission that was also made to influence Soviet Middle East policy.
USS Power (DD-839) is at left, and the Turkish Battlecruiser Yavuz (formerly the German Goeben) is at right. Dolmabahce Mosque is in the foreground.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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14 January 1999