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The decks on the Missouri were blue for the surrender.
There are no photos of the decks of the Missouri following the surrender to her departure from Pearl Harbor enroute to the States. That photo is inconclusive as to whether the decks were still blue.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/bb63-a1.htm
Photos of the Missouri transiting the Panama Canal show that her decks had been stripped to bright wood.
And photos of Truman boarding the Missouri for Navy Day celebration in NYC (27 October 1945) confirm that the decks were indeed bare wood.
Photos taken at Navy Day appear to show that the Missouri was still in Ms22
By April '46 for the Mediterranean Cruise (Victory Tour) -- it looks like she may have been out of 5N Navy Blue and painted into the late-war gray version of the color (also designated 5N)
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/k09000/k09343t.jpg
The color photo at Piraeus, Greece definately shows a neutral toned darker hull with lighter topworks.
By January, 1950 when she ran hard aground in the Chesapeake Bay
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/bb63-m4.htm
she appears to be overall Haze Gray
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