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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. Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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14 January 1999