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One of four LCVP landing crafts assigned to LST-1090, 1950s, location unknown.	Recovering a Type XVIIB midget submarine, IJmuiden, Netherlands, 1951

SB2C-5 Helldiver and F6F-5 Hellcat aircraft on the flight deck of Arromanches, off French Indochina in the Gulf of Tonkin, circa 1951; note HO3S helicopter in flight	Sea Fury aircraft aboard HMS Glory, off Korea, 1951

Submarine Puffer, 1951	USS Carbonero firing a Loon missile, 1951

USS Manta at Key West, Florida, United States, circa early 1950s	Carrier Langley being reactivated at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, United States, Jan 1951

USS Independence, damaged in atomic bomb tests, in San Francisco Bay being prepared for sinking after efforts to wash off the radioactivity were unsuccessful, Jan 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	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.	HO3S-1 helicopter landing on USS Saint Paul off Wonsan, Kangwon Province, Korea, 17 Apr 1951

USS Saint Paul bombarding communist positions near Wonsan, Kangwon Province, Korea, 20 Apr 1951	USS Saint Paul off Wonsan, Kangwon Province, Korea, 20 Apr 1951

1,000-lb bombs awaiting loading onto USS Essex, Naval Air Station San Diego, California, United States, May 1951	A Kairyu-class submarine in cutaway form at Yokosuka Naval Base, being examined by Fire Controlman 2nd Class Charles L. Carroll and another American sailor, 11 May 1951