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| Admiral Burke taking oath as US Navy Chief of Naval Operations, Dahlgren Hall, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, United States, 17 Aug 1955; Rear Admiral Ira Nunn was administering the oath | Luz Magsaysay, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ramón Magsaysay in Manila, Philippines, 26 Aug 1955 |
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| Trials Cruiser HMS Cumberland off Malta in pre-wetting experiments designed to keep radioactive fallout particles from adhering to a ship’s surfaces, Sep 1955. | Vyacheslav Molotov, Heinrich von Brentano, Konrad Adenauer, Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Pervukhin at a performance of Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia, 10 Sep 1955 |
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| Burke, in flight suit, arrived at Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, US aboard an A3D jet bomber, 15 Sep 1955; meeting him were VAdm Doyle, RAdm Gallery, RAdm Forrestel, and Capt Hollingsworth | Admiral Arleigh Burke and Vice Admiral Austin Doyle in front of the Headquarters of the Chief of Naval Air Training, Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, United States, 16 Sep 1955 |
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| Erich Raeder and his wife on the date of his release from Spandau prison, Berlin, Germany, 26 Sep 1955 | Hong Xuezhi, Xiao Hua, Su Yu, and Chen Geng at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, Oct 1955 |
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| Su Yu at an event at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 1 Oct 1955 | Crew of USS Segundo hearing an address during her change of command at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 18 Oct 1955 |
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| Haskell-class attack transport USS Bexar underway, Nov 1955 | USS Segundo underway off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 28 Nov 1955 |
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| USS Charr departing Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 29 Nov 1955 | A3D-1 Skywarrior aircraft piloted by Dick Davidson of VAH-1 squadron launching from USS Shangri-La, 1956 |
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| Canadian F-86 fighters at Narsarssuak Air Base, Greenland, 1956 | Chen Yi, the Dalai Lama, and the Panchen Lama at a celebration for the establishment of the Preparatory Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, 1956 |
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| Chiang Kaishek inspecting defenses at Kinmen islands, Fujian Province, Republic of China, 1956 | Chiang Kaishek, Chen Cheng, Song Meiling, and others in Taiwan, Republic of China, 1956 |
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| Han Chinese representatives and Tibetan Chinese representatives in discussion regarding the establishment of an autonomous Tibetan region, China, Apr 1956 | Marine Lt General Chesty Puller (Ret) emerging from the Witness Room after testifying at the court martial of a Marine Sergeant, Marine Recruiting Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, USA, 1956. |
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