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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-22667 (Color)

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN

Portrait by Commander Albert Murray, USNR, depicting FAdm. Nimitz at the Japanese surrender ceremonies on board USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and Admiral William F. Halsey are at right.
Note: The artist has reversed the actual orientation of the scene.

Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.

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

Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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5 December 2000