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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-6582 (Color)

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Crew members painting a decorative chart of the ship's wartime travels, on the forward bulkhead of the Wardroom, in preparation for public visits during Navy Day at New York City, 27 October 1945. Photographed some days earlier, while Missouri was en route from the Pacific to New York.
Those present are (left to right):
Signalman Third Class Jose de la Torre, Jr.;
Signalman Second Class Gerald Parker and
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Reichart Muncie, Jr.

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

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8 February 1999