Japanese Surrender aboard "Mighty Mo"

While working for the Air Transport Command  at Hickam Field, DiMaggio had the chance to catch "hops" back to California, which let him spend some time with his family and divorced wife on the West Coast.  Suffering from        constant ulcers, he was then later assigned to the military Redistribution Center in Atlantic City, N.J. where he was discharged in          September, 1945, shortly after the Japanese signing of the Surrender document on the "Mighty Mo" Battleship.  DiMaggio picked    up his career again with the Yankees by 1946.