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Mitscher in cockpit on board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 15 May 1946	Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments.

Dwight Eisenhower at Kilauea Military Camp, Pāhoa, US Territory of Hawaiʻi, 17 May 1946	40-millimeter gun of submarine chaser USS PC-799 firing on target ship DD-224, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 Mary 1946

Captured German cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Panama Canal en route to Bikini Atoll, 1946	Group portrait of Australian Governor-General's flight with York aircraft 'Endeavour', RAAF Base Fairbairn, Canberra, Australia, Jun 1946

USS Sennet off the Panama Canal Zone, Jun 1946	Drawing of a No. 75 'Hawkins' grenade, seen in the 10 Jun 1946 US Department of the Navy publication 'NAVORD OP 1665 OCLC 51810278'

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viceroy Archibald Wavell, and Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck at the gardens of the Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), New Delhi, India, 17 Jun 1946	Father Lelere, a former prisoner of Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, testifying at the trials of former camp personnel, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 21 Jun 1946; note court interpreter Fred Stecker at right

Captured German cruiser Prinz Eugen shortly before being subjected to atomic detonation tests, Bikini Atoll, 1946	Operation Crossroads atomic detonation at Bikini Atoll, Jul 1946; profile of battleship Nagato could be seen at the base of the mushroom cloud

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	Crossroads Baker atomic test, photograph taken from a US Navy PBM Mariner aircraft less than one second after the detonation, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 25 Jul 1946; identifiable ships, from left to right: Pensacola, Saratoga, Pennsylvania, Nagato, New York, and Salt Lake City

Operation Crossroads Test Baker, an underwater plutonium bomb test, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 25 Jul 1946. Note cruiser USS Salt Lake City and Japanese battleship Nagato among the test fleet.	Commander Samuel Bussey at the commissioning ceremony of USS Barbero, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Jul 1948

US and Chinese flags being raised, Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China, Aug 1946	US Navy sailors scrubbing down the deck of USS IX-300 (former German cruiser Prinz Eugen) after the Baker atomic detonation of Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, some days after 25 Jul 1946