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Inactivated submarines at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 3 Jan 1946	Tiru under construction at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 3 Jan 1946; submarines in background were Bashaw, Pampanito, Mingo, Gurnard, Macabi, Tunny, Guavina, and Sand Lance

Cumberland in Grand Harbour, Malta, 8 Jan 1946	Scrapping of Marblehead in Dry Dock No. 4, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 10 Jan 1946

Nagato (foreground) and South Dakota (background) seen from a Japanese I-400-class submarine, Japan, 14 Jan 1946	Battleship Massachusetts underway at 6 knots in Puget Sound, Washington, United States after her final overhaul, 22 Jan 1946

President Harry Truman congratulating Lieutenant Donald Gary after Gary received the Medal of Honor, the White House, Washington, DC, United States, 23 Jan 1946	USS Bennington alongside Ford Island at Berth F-2 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 Jan 1946. Note her freshly painted peacetime white deck markings and camouflage paint on some of the Ford Island buildings.

I-58 at Sasebo, Japan, Jan 1946	I-58's forward torpedo room, showing 21-inch tubes for the Type 95 torpedo, 28 Jan 1946

USS Besugo at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 29 Jan 1946; note USS Spadefish and USS Barbero in background	Katsuragi refueling in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain while transporting 5,000 Japanese servicemen back to the Japanese home islands, 31 Jan 1946

American submarine Apogon alongside a LCVP from LST 52, circa Feb 1946	Koryu submarines in a partially flooded drydock at Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, Feb 1946

Nagato in port, Japan, early 1946	Nagato in port, Yokosuka, Japan, 15 Feb 1946

USS DD-224 arriving under tow in San Francisco Bay, California, early Mar 1946; note Golden Gate Bridge in background	USS Tamalpais on station at Hong Kong as a fresh water tanker ship, Mar 1946.

USS Indiana, USS Massachusetts, and USS Alabama at the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, United States, 17 Mar 1946	Eleven submarines of the reserve fleet laid up in the Napa River at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 18 Mar 1946.