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USS Independence, damaged in atomic bomb tests, in San Francisco Bay being prepared for sinking after efforts to wash off the radioactivity were unsuccessful, Jan 1951	P-51 Mustang fighter of the US 5th Air Force dropping two napalm bombs in North Korea, 1 Jan 1951

US Marine Corps Band, directed by Major William Santleman, playing for Commandant Clifton Cates, Washington DC, United States, 1 Jan 1951	General Vasily Chukov (left) and Ambassador Vladmir Semyonov (background) with President Wilhelm Pieck (right), Berlin, East Germany, 3 Jan 1951

Lewis Puller being promoted to the rank of brigadier general by General Oliver Smith, 26 Jan 1951	Lewis Puller inspecting a groop of Marines, 26 Jan 1951

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's funeral procession, Helsinki, Finland, 28 Jan 1951	US President Harry Truman and General Dwight Eisenhower at Washington National Airport, Arlington, Virginia, United States, 31 Jan 1951

B-26 Invader bomber over Korea, Feb 1951	Destroyers USS O’Bannon (left) and USS Nicholas at Mare Island, Vallejo, California being prepared for their recommissioning, Feb 1951.

F4U-4B Corsair of Fighter Squadron 114 on the flight deck of the Fleet Carrier USS Philippine Sea off the coast of Korea, Feb 1951	Portrait of Brigadier General Lewis Puller, Jan 1951

Mannerheim's funeral procession, Helsinki Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland, 4 Feb 1951	Mannerheim's funeral procession, Helsinki, Finland, 4 Feb 1951

US Army 1LT Kingston M. Winget with a Thompson submachine gun, Chipyong-ni, Korea, circa Feb 1951	Commanding officers of the jointly recommissioned destroyers USS Nicholas and USS O’Bannon at Mare Island, California, 15 Feb 1951. Commander Harry Mason (left; Nicholas) and Commander Daniel Carrison (right; O’Bannon).

Joint commissioning ceremony for USS Nicholas (left) and USS O’Bannon at Mare Island, Vallejo, California, 15 Feb 1951. Note Nicholas’s No. 2 gun mount has been replaced with a hedgehog anti-submarine spigot mortar.	General of the Army Douglas MacArthur inspecting troops of the 24th Infantry Division at Gimpo airfield near Seoul, Korea, 21 Feb 1951

Soldier of 5th Regimental Combat Team, US 24th Infantry Division with a BAR, on the banks of the Han River, Korea, 23 Feb 1951	USS Caiman underway off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, spring 1951