Model of U.S.S. Missouri presented to U.S. President. A small-scale model of the 45,000-ton U.S.

Model of U.S.S. Missouri presented to U.S. President. A small-scale model of the 45,000-ton U.S. battleship Missouri is presented to U.S. President Harry S. Truman (second from left) by U.S. Secretary of the Navy James v. Forrestal (second from right) on August 17, 1945, at the White House, Executive Mansion in Washington, U.S. captital. Missouri, in the midwestern U.S., is President Truman's home state. Present at the ceremony are Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (right), Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs (left), Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel.