Donated by my neighbor and good friend Mabel Lopez whose husband served on General Nimitz's Staff.

Signature Page

Most of the memorabilia above was donated by my brother, Henry Ehrman.  Superintendent John Claybourne and his wife Elsie were invited to transit the Canal aboard the USS Missouri, in 1945, as she made her way home.  They took my brother Henry as their guest.  Henry also has a baseball with signatures of the sailors who played baseball with him aboard the ship that day.

I was informed by Nina Brown Kosik that the ship in the background is the SS Ancon , one of three Panama RR Line ships converted for War duty.  The SS Ancon was the namesake of the first ship to officially transit the Panama Canal. The SS Ancon  and her two sister ships were used as a passenger and cargo ships during peace time.