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Marine Lt Gen Lem Shepherd (seated) with Col Chesty Puller and Mrs. Virginia Puller at a 4th of July barbecue at the Marine barracks, TH Hawaii, July 4 1950.	Recommissioning ceremony of USS Sterlet at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Aug 1950

Submarines Dragonet, Menhaden, Mapiro, Seahorse, Sand Lance, Batfish, Capitaine, Pipefish, and Manta at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 28 Sep 1950	Ceremony marking the return of Seoul to Republic of Korea control, General Government Building, Seoul, Korea, 29 Sep 1950, photo 1 of 3

Ceremony marking the return of Seoul to Republic of Korea control, General Government Building, Seoul, Korea, 29 Sep 1950, photo 2 of 3	Ceremony marking the return of Seoul to Republic of Korea control, General Government Building, Seoul, Korea, 29 Sep 1950, photo 3 of 3

F4U-5N Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF(N)-513 at rest, Wonsan, Korea, 2 Nov 1950, photo 1 of 2. Note the HVAR rockets.	F4U-5N Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF(N)-513 at rest, Wonsan, Korea, 2 Nov 1950, photo 2 of 2. Note the HVAR rockets.

US President Harry Truman signing the proclamation declaring a national emergency, White House, Washington DC, United States, 16 Dec 1950	Tiburon Naval Net Depot, Tiburon, California, United States, 1950s.

US military mail truck at Haneda Air Base, Tokyo, Japan, 1951	US military mail truck at Haneda Air Base, Tokyo, Japan, 1951

Destroyers USS O’Bannon (left) and USS Nicholas at Mare Island, Vallejo, California being prepared for their recommissioning, 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.	USS Caiman underway off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, spring 1951

US Marine Corps General Clifton Cates with British Royal Marine Commandant-General Colonel A. G. Ferguson-Warren, Harry Lee Hall, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, United States, 9 Mar 1951	Overhead view of USS Nicholas at Mare Islands Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Mar 1951. Photo 1 of 2.

Overhead view of USS Nicholas at Mare Islands Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Mar 1951. Photo 2 of 2.	Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion presenting US President Harry Truman with a Menorah, White House, Washington DC, United States, 8 May 1951; Israeli Ambassador to US Abba Eban also present