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International News Photo [Truman disembarking from USS Missouri]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1432 Author/Creator: International News Photo Place Written: Norfolk, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 19 September 1947 Pagination: 1 photo ; b&w Order a Copy

One photograph dated September 19, 1947 of President Harry S. Truman disembarking from the U.S.S. Missouri at Norfolk Naval Station.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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