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AU-1 Corsair fighter seen in US Navy Standard Aircraft Characteristics NAVAER 13358, published on 1 Jun 1953	Standard Aircraft Characteristics document for the Corsair fighter design, 1 Jun 1953

Technical drawing of the Cleveland-class light cruiser, as appeared in a 1958 issue of All-Hands magazine.	Diagram of the John C. Butler and Rudderow classes of destroyer escorts, the primary difference being in their respective power plants, All Hands Magazine, 1959.

1961 map of the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States. Page 1 of 2.	Chiang Kaishek's Republic of China national identification card, issued 17 Apr 1965; note card number 0000001

Puyi's Chinese Communist Party National Committee member card, 1966	Annotated diagram of a Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb from top to bottom.

Annotated diagram of a Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb from top to bottom.	Postwar American chart roughly showing the path of the jet-stream used by the Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs. The actual path curved sharply northward along the Aleutians and down the North American coast.

Postwar American chart showing the trans-Pacific flight characteristics of the Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs.	Schindler's List - The List of Life, at Hildesheim, Germany, 1999

Photograph of a mimeographed letter, written in French, and carried by US Airmen on missions over French Indo-China	Invitation to attend the Wannsee Conference sent by Reinhard Heydrich to Martin Luther, on display at the Wannsee Conference House Memorial, Berlin, Germany, May 2006

Japan-Manchukuo Protocol on display at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, 2009	Diagram of a Type 1 Kaiten showing its use of the Type 93 torpedo motor for its propulsion.

Cutaway view of the TBM-1c Avenger.	Line drawing for the Junkers Ju-87B-2 Stuka dive-bomber.

Line drawing of BR.20 bomber	Line drawing of the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat carrier-based fighter.