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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-44891

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Miss Margaret Truman, Missouri's Sponsor, ready to christen the ship, during launching ceremonies at the New York Navy Yard, 29 January 1944.
Looking on are (left to right):
Rear Admiral Monroe R. Kelly, New York Navy Yard Commandant;
Rear Admiral Sherman S. Kennedy, USN, and
Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, the Sponsor's father.

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

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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22 January 1999