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 ...