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| Admiral Mitscher and Commodore Burke aboard USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 7 May 1946; other officers were Captain Thomas Regan, Vice Admiral Bernhard Bieri, and Lieutenant Commander Remington | PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. D tank (foreground), PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. G tanks (two tanks in the center), and SdKfz 165 Hummel self-propelled gun (left edge of photo) of the Romanian Tudor Vladimirescu Division during the National Day Parade, Romania, 10 May 1946 |
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| Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz watching an anti-submarine weapons demonstration aboard destroyer USS Wiltsie in the Atlantic Ocean, 11 May 1946 | General Douglas MacArthur greeting Australian Prime Minister Joseph Chifley at Atsugi Airfield, Japan, 13 May 1946 |
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| Mugford at Pearl Harbor while being prepared for use as a target for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, 14 May 1946, photo 1 of 2 | Mugford at Pearl Harbor while being prepared for use as a target for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, 14 May 1946, photo 2 of 2 |
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| Cutaway of the electrical energizer for the VT proximity fuze developed by the National Carbon Corporation, from a 1946 Bureau of Ordnance publication. | Mitscher in cockpit on board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 15 May 1946 |
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| Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments. | United States Coast Guard Cutter Spencer in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, United States, 17 May 1946. |
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| Jaroslav Houf taking a photograph of Ivan Konev and his wife at Vila Margaretha, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, 18 May 1946 | Incomplete Unryu-class carrier Ikoma, Shodoshima, Japan, 23 May 1946 |
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| 40-millimeter gun of submarine chaser USS PC-799 firing on target ship DD-224, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 Mary 1946 | A F4U Corsair aircraft leading two F6F Hellcat aircraft attacking target ship DD-224 off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946; note this might be a composite photograph |
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| DD-224 under tow, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946 | Target ship DD-224 sinking, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Target ship DD-224 sinking, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946, photo 2 of 2 | Dr. Klaus Schilling on the gallows at Landsberg, Germany, 28 May 1946. Schilling was convicted at the Dachau war crimes trials for conducting infectious disease experiments on prisoners. |
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| 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 |
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