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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-376893

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Ship's Marines stand at attention as the body of the late Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador to the United States, is lowered over the side, at Dolmabahce, Turkey, 5 April 1946. Missouri had carried his body home from the U.S. as part of a diplomatic cruise in the Mediterranean.
Note smoke in the background from gun salutes.
Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Dewey Wrigley.

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

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21 January 1999