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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; seen in US Navy publication 'VT Fuzes for Projectiles and Spin-Stabilized Rockets' (OP 1480) dated 15 May 1946 | Exploded view of a Mark 53 VT Radio Proximity anti-aircraft fuze; seen in US Navy publication 'VT Fuzes for Projectiles and Spin-Stabilized Rockets' (OP 1480) dated 15 May 1946 |
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| Mitscher in cockpit on board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 15 May 1946 | Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments; seen in US Navy publication 'VT Fuzes for Projectiles and Spin-Stabilized Rockets' (OP 1480) dated 15 May 1946 |
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| Schematic drawing of a Mark 53 VT Radio Proximity anti-aircraft fuze; the on-board wet cell battery was always called the Reserve Battery even though it was the primary power source; seen in US Navy publication 'VT Fuzes for Projectiles and Spin-Stabilized Rockets' (OP 1480) dated 15 May 1946 | Dwight Eisenhower at Kilauea Military Camp, Pāhoa, US Territory of Hawaiʻi, 17 May 1946 |
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| United States Coast Guard Cutter Spencer in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, United States, 17 May 1946. | Jaroslav Houf taking a photograph of Ivan Konev and his wife at Vila Margaretha, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, 18 May 1946 |
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| Incomplete Unryu-class carrier Ikoma, Shodoshima, Japan, 23 May 1946 | 40-millimeter gun of submarine chaser USS PC-799 firing on target ship DD-224, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 Mary 1946 |
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| 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 | DD-224 under tow, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946 |
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| Target ship DD-224 sinking, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946, photo 1 of 2 | Target ship DD-224 sinking, off San Francisco, California, United States, 24 May 1946, photo 2 of 2 |
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