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Roll of Service 1941-1945

DouglasMacARTHUR

General of the Army of the United States U.S. Years of Service 1903-1951.

 

 


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  • Little Rock,

    Arkansas, U.S.A

  • Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

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My U.S.S Missouri Teak Plank Shavings in a bottle at the MacArthur Museum.

My U.S.S Missouri Teak Plank Shavings in a bottle at the MacArthur Museum, Brisbane, Q.L.D, Australia. - Copyright © 2016 Graeme Watson.
'My Teak Plank Shavings in a bottle at the MacArthur Museum, Brisbane, Q.L.D, Australia.'

September 02, 1945, World War II ended on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri, The section of decking where the surrender took place was removed from the ship, on a brief stop over at Pearl Harbor in September 1945.


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Picture: Header, Original Caption: Down the ramp of a Coast Guard Landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day Invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machine gun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming Invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft.
[Courtesy of National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures (RDSS)(513173)] Public Domain Mark 1.0 (Edited: Artistic Blur by Graeme Watson, 2016)