He was an Army man, dressed in the summer tan uniform. His character hat signified that he was Douglas MacArthur, general of the army, but on this day he stood on the deck of a navy ship moored in Tokyo Bay.
This is the day World War II ended; the surrender was signed aboard the USS Missouri was authorized by Congress in 1839 and commissioned three years later. It was not, however, the only American ship of war to carry the name of our state.
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