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Decommissioning ceremony of USS Puffer, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 12 Jul 1946	President Harry Truman with Vice-Admiral Marc Mitscher, White House, Washington DC, United States, 16 Jul 1946

USS Sea Cat off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 22 Jul 1946	USS Sea Cat at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 23 Jul 1946

Commander Samuel Bussey at the commissioning ceremony of USS Barbero, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Jul 1948	Émile Bertin at Toulon, France, 29 Jul 1946

Harry Truman signing the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, White House, Washington DC, United States, 1 Aug 1946	USS Charr off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 16 Sep 1946

Overhead view of Barbers Point Naval Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii, Oct 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	Aerial view of Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United States, 1947

Aerial view of model enemy village at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United States, 1947	Aerial view of model enemy village at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United States, 1947

Barracks for deportees, Vorkuta, Komi, Russia, circa 1947	Excerpt from the 1947 United States Geological Survey map of San Francisco Bay showing Richmond, California, United States and the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards at Point Potrero.

Excerpt from the 1947 United States Geological Survey map of San Francisco Bay showing the Tiburon Peninsula. Note the Tiburon Naval Net Depot on the northeast shore.	German worker in front of a scrap metal pile in front of the ruins of Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany, 1947