[21twelve]

That’s a great photo of the surrender signing on the Mighty Mo. I forget where I read it - but probably when they decommissioned the ship. The cook or some low-level type guy told the story of how they needed a table for the signing. They ended up using a table from the galley that was all beat up, etc. so they put the cloth over it. I almost want to say there were two tables, but mismatched in height so they had to put boards or something under the one side. Regardless - it was a very hastily put-together table for such a monumental event. (And a tribute to their can-do attitude and adaptability!)

[GOP_Party_Animal]

There's a metal memorial set into the deck of the Missouri at that location. My dad has a picture of himself crouching beside it in the early 50's (he served on the Iowa). When I went to Hawaii for our honeymoon, I had my wife take a picture of me in the same pose, on the same ship nearly 50 years later.