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Photo #: 80-G-490401

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Japanese naval officers go over charts of Sagami and Tokyo Bays during a piloting conference with Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet staff, 27 August 1945, as preparations were being made for the entrance of U.S. Third Fleet and British Pacific Fleet ships into Japanese waters.
At left, in baseball cap, is Rear Admiral Robert B. Carney, Third Fleet Chief of Staff.
At right is Japanese language officer Commander Gilven M. Slonim.
The State of Missouri Seal is on the bulkhead in the upper left corner.

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

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9 January 1999