Ships

The Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy, is seated at a desk signing the document as U.S. representative. A group of Naval officers stands around him. This copy of the photograph is inscribed, "To Ed Pauley - with best wishes and warmest regards," and signed by Nimitz in the lower margin as a gift to Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley.

Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy, on board a ship.

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) chats with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Woodward aboard the S.S. Ile de France on September 10, 1956 in New York Harbor. Man on the right is unidentified.

Railroad cars being loaded directly from Liberty Ships at the port of Hulutao, Manchuria. Hulutao is on the Peking-Mukden Line. Captain Scott of the Pauley Mission is in the foreground. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

With the ocean as a backdrop, President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with Captain Robert L. Dennison, U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer, on board the USS Missouri. The photo is autographed as follows: "With my best wishes to the President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman, Robert L. Dennison, Capt. USN, Commanding USS Missouri." From: Truman Home.

Color photo of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Harry S. Truman at sea. Photo was give to the Truman Library by the Captain on October 18, 2002. Formal commissioning of the ship was in July of 1998.

Museum display (U. S. S. Missouri seal about the Japanese surrender) at the Harry S. Truman Library. From: Brown leather album, gift from Col. Robert E. Adams.

Former President Harry S. Truman and Col. Robert E. Adams shown in the display area of the Harry S. Truman Library museum. They are by the seal marking the Japanese surrender on the U. S. S. Missouri. From: Brown leather album gift from Col. Robert E. Adams.

Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison aboard the U.S.S. Epperson, off Key West, Florida. From: Robert L. Dennison.

Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison (left) and President Harry S. Truman (right) standing on the flying bridge of the U.S.S. Williamsburg while docked at the Key West Naval Station, Key West, Florida. In the background is the U.S.S. William C. Lawe, which picked up the U.S.S. Williamsburg for escorting duty as she entered Chesapeake Bay on this trip from Washington D.C. to Key West. From: Robert L. Dennison