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Vice Admiral Guy Russell leaving HMS Glory, Kure, Japan, circa 29 Sep 1951	Stockpile of HVAR air-to-surface rockets at the Chinhae Air Base (now Jinhae), South Korea, home of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Group and their P-51D Mustangs, Oct 51.

USS Sarda and USS Flying Fish, circa 1951; note USS Flying Fish with the Gruppen Horsch Gerat sonar taken from German cruiser Prinz Eugen	Pearl Harbor’s Main Entrance Channel, Ford Island, and the Naval Shipyard, Oahu, Hawaii, Oct 2, 1951.

Seaman Leroy Kellam of Essex carried belts of 20mm ammunition for a F2H Banshee fighter aircraft, off Korea, 12 Oct 1951	Churchill, Eisenhower, and Montgomery at a reunion of the British 8th Army, 19 Oct 1951

US President Harry Truman and Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, 23 Oct 1951	Birthday celebration for Chiang Kaishek, Taiwan, Republic of China, 31 Oct 1951

USS Charr off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 5 Nov 1951	USS Charr at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 9 Nov 1951, photo 1 of 2; note USS Baya and USS Montrose nearby

USS Charr at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 9 Nov 1951, photo 2 of 2	Battleship New Jersey firing a nine-gun salvo during bombardment operations against communist targets in Korea, adjacent to the 38th parallel, 10 Nov 1951

UN delegates to the armistice negotiations: Major General Turner, Major General Lee, Vice Admiral Joy, Rear Admiral Libby, Major General Hodes, and Rear Admiral Burke. Panmunjom, Korea, 30 Nov 1951	United States Navy Lieutenant L.A. Wilson in front of a model of the submarine net across San Francisco’s Golden Gate, Tiburon Naval Net Depot, 1951.

USS Cod underway off Block Island, Rhode Island, United States, Dec 1951	F4U-4 Corsair fighters of US Navy squadron VF-671 in flight over the Mediterranean Sea, 15 Dec 1951

155 mm Howitzer M1 of US 24th Infantry Division, Korea, 1952	A 1950s portrait of United States Navy Captain John C. Nichols. As Commander Nichols, he was the third and final commanding officer of Gato-class submarine USS Silversides from 1944 to 1946.

AD-4 Skyraider and F4U-4 Corsair aircraft preparing for launch aboard USS Coral Sea in the Mediterranean Sea, 1952	AD-4 Skyraider, F2H-2 Banshee, and F4U-4 Corsair aircraft from USS Wasp in flight, 1951-1952