When the Japanese delegation came aboard the ship to sign the terms of surrender on 2 September 1945, few if any of the Sailors and Allied dignitaries on deck realized how the site was selected. Here's what happened.
Some events in history are the result of careful planning, while others just sort of evolve through a series of steps that did not appear at first to be connected. The latter was the case with the selection of the battleship USS...
October 2010 Comment & Discussion by David Buell (p. 84)
FADM William D. Leahy, USN (U.S. President Harry S. Truman's Chief of Staff) may have advocated for a US Navy Cimarron-Classs Fast Fleet Oiler for this reason:
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