Shipyards

Margaret Truman breaks a bottle of champagne during the christening ceremonies for the USS Missouri at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. Standing on platform, left to right: Jane Tunstall Lingo, Margaret Truman, Rear Admiral Sherman S. Kennedy, and Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly.

A large crowd gathers for the christening and launching ceremonies for the USS Missouri at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. On the platform, left to right are: Jane Tunstall Lingo, Margaret Truman, Rear Admiral Sherman S. Kennedy, and Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly. Standing in front of the platform, left is Bess Truman, left center is Drucie Snyder, and center is Senator Harry S. Truman.

The USS Missouri being launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York after the christening ceremonies.

Margaret Truman prepares to break a champagne bottle on the bow of the USS Missouri to christen it during a ceremony at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. Left to right: Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, Rear Admiral Sherman S. Kennedy, Senator Harry S. Truman (obscured), and Margaret Truman.

From left to right, Senator Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman with a bouquet of flowers, Bess Truman, and Rear Admiral Sherman Kennedy at the christening and launching of the battleship USS Missouri at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York.

This is a view of a shipyard in post-war Japan. Image taken by John Brannon who was a defense attorney for the International Military Tribunal of the Far East who represented Japanese war criminals in Tokyo, Japan.

This is a view of the shipyard and port in Genoa, Italy in 1958.

This is a view of a shipyard in Genoa, Italy.

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown on the right and Rear Admiral Leo Hewlett Thebaud, Commandant of the First Naval District, is at salute beside him. They are responding to military honors rendered by the Boston Naval Base Band. Secretary Matthews is on a visit to the Boston Naval Shipyard. Part of a Marine Corp. detachment are also in view.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, second from the left, is shown inspecting the historic frigate USS Constitution during a visit to the Boston Naval Yard. Rear Admiral Leo H. Thebaud is standing third from the right. Others in view are not identified.