Which 1853 American naval expedition's flag was displayed aboard USS Missouri during Japan's surrender ceremony?

Matthew Perry's 1853 expedition supplied the flag displayed aboard USS Missouri during Japan's surrender ceremony.

The flag had been associated with Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to Japan. Perry’s ships entered Tokyo Bay in 1853 and helped force the opening of Japan to formal relations with the United States. The flag was brought aboard Missouri as a historical symbol when the surrender ceremony took place on September 2, 1945.

USS Missouri anchored near the area where Perry’s vessels had anchored almost a century earlier. The juxtaposition was deliberate: Perry’s arrival marked Japan’s forced opening to Western diplomacy, while the surrender ceremony marked the defeat of Japan’s wartime empire and the beginning of an Allied occupation.

The ship also displayed an American flag from its own stock, which has sometimes been mistakenly identified as the flag flown over the U.S. Capitol on December 7, 1941. That popular claim is incorrect; the flag was an ordinary issue flag from Missouri’s supplies.