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Norden bombsight M1, date unknown	Schematic drawing of the V-1 flying bomb prepared by the United States Army after their post-war analysis of the device.

I-58's forward torpedo room, showing 21-inch tubes for the Type 95 torpedo, 28 Jan 1946	O'Callahan at military mass at the high altar of Candaleria Cathedral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt's shakedown cruise, Feb 1946; note US Marine with M1 rifle on left

Cutaway of the electrical energizer for the VT proximity fuze developed by the National Carbon Corporation, from a 1946 Bureau of Ordnance publication.	Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments.

Drawing of a No. 75 'Hawkins' grenade, seen in the 10 Jun 1946 US Department of the Navy publication 'NAVORD OP 1665 OCLC 51810278'	The first photo from space, 24 Oct 1946; taken from a Devry 35mm movie camera attached to a V2 rocket at altitude of 65 miles; the rocket was launched from US Army White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, United States

Rudolf Höss on trial at the Supreme National Tribunal, Warsaw, Poland, 11-29 Mar 1947	Men of the United States Army 1st Cavalry Division examining the freshly discovered launch site for the Fu-Go balloon bombs at Otsu, Japan Apr 1947. The dark barrel-shaped devices are gas generators for the hydrogen gas.

Emperor Showa visiting Kobe, Japan, 11 Jun 1947	HVAR air-to-surface rockets mounted on a P-51D Mustang of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan at Hofu Airfield, 1948.

ZB-53 vz. 37 machine gun in Israeli service, Sasa, Israel, 31 Oct 1948	Korean military policemen with captured Japanese Type 92 machine gun, Seoul, Korea, late 1940s

Troops of Malay Regiment inspecting captured communist equipment, Malaya, 1949; note Sten gun	Abandoned Japanese Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft mounts at Waingapu, Dutch East Indies, 25 Feb 1949

Dutch soldier with a captured Japanese Type 88 75mm anti-aircraft gun, Waingapu, Dutch East Indies, 25 Feb 1949	British-Malayan policemen talking to a civilian, Malaya, 23 Apr 1949; note Sten gun

3-inch guns in the stern gun tubs aboard the USS Essex, circa 1950.	Chinese communist soldiers operating a DShK M1938 heavy machine gun as an anti-aircraft weapon, China, circa 1950s