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USS Shangri-La underway, Pacific Ocean, 17 Aug 1946; note air group identification letter Z on flight deck rather than the usual hull number 38	USS Charr off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 16 Sep 1946

USS Parche arriving at Mare Island Naval Shipyard for deactivation overhaul, 14 Oct 1946. Parche had already withstood two atomic bomb explosions at Bikini Atoll and a decontamination process at Pearl Harbor.	USS Dentuda, USS Searaven, and USS Tuna in foreground, with USS Parche, USS Bluegill, and USS Hackleback also present, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Oct 1946

USS Parche at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Oct 1946	Incomplete light carrier Ibuki being taken apart at Sasebo, Japan, 22 Oct 1946

Cruiser Aoba sunken in shallow water, Kure, Japan, 28 Nov 1946	Landing ship No. 147, with coal-fired boilers, at Yokosuka Navy Base, Japan, 16 Dec 1946

Bow view of USS Capitaine off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Dec 1946	Port view of USS Capitaine off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Dec 1946

Stern view of USS Capitaine off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Dec 1946	Incomplete Unryu-class carrier Aso, Kure, Japan, 20 Dec 1946

Aerial view of sunken Hyuga off Nasakejima, Kure, Japan, 1947	Decommissioned submarines at Groton, Connecticut, United States, circa 1947; L to R: Archer-Fish, Flasher, Cobia, Croaker, Drum, and Cavalla

Kaiyo being scrapped at Beppu Bay, Kyushu, Japan, 1946-1947	Landing ship No. 192 at Moji, Japan, 1947

US-captured German Ar 196A-5 seaplane being launched from a catapult removed from cruiser Prinz Eugen, Naval Air Materiel Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 1947	USS Astoria underway, circa 1947

USS Bergall underway, circa 1947	USS Brill in harbor, 1940s