Post-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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The central plaza of Selarang Barracks and surrounding buildings, Changi, Singapore, circa late 1940s	Two Diamond T trucks towing a Tortoise heavy assault tank belonging to the British Army of the Rhine on a 80-ton tilt-bed trailer during trials, Germany, 1948

United States Coast Guard DUKW receiving maintenance, date unknown; note truck drive axle, propeller, and rudder	US Air Force portrait of Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay, circa 1948

US Navy PBM-5A Mariner aircraft, circa late 1940s	USN P-80B w SAM-N-2 Lark missiles, Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, United States, 1948

USS Brill at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, Sep 1947-Feb 1948	Viceroy of India Louis Mountbatten meeting with Tibetan politician Tsepon Shakabpa in India, 1948; note translator Kuladharma Ratna (gray suit) and member of Tibetan Trade Mission Pomdawa Lozang Yarpel (background)

Wei Lihuang and others studying a field map, China, late 1940s	Yan Xishan in his office, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, 1948; note signed portrait of Claire Chennault and box of cyanide pills intended for prevent being captured by Communists

Aerial view of Naval Air Station New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States, seen in Jan 1948 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	Aerial view of Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, United States, as it appeared in the Jan 1948 edition of the 'US Navy Naval Aviation News'

Chiang Kaishek at a memorial service for the recently assassinated Mohandas Gandhi, Nanjing, China, Feb 1948	Hubert Lanz during the Nuremberg Trials, Nürnberg, Germany, Feb 1948

General Dwight Eisenhower swearing General Omar Bradley into office as Chief of Staff of the US Army, Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, United States, 7 Feb 1948, photo 1 of 3; note US President Harry Truman and Secretary of Army Kenneth Royall in background	General Dwight Eisenhower swearing General Omar Bradley into office as Chief of Staff of the US Army, Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, United States, 7 Feb 1948, photo 2 of 3; note US President Harry Truman and Secretary of Army Kenneth Royall in background

General Dwight Eisenhower swearing General Omar Bradley into office as Chief of Staff of the US Army, Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, United States, 7 Feb 1948, photo 3 of 3; note US President Harry Truman and Secretary of Army Kenneth Royall in background	Omar Bradley and his wife after being sworn in as the Chief of Staff of the US Army, Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, United States, 7 Feb 1948

US President Harry Truman awarding General Dwight Eisenhower the third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal, Pentagon, Virginia, United States, 7 Feb 1948, photo 1 of 2	US President Harry Truman awarding General Dwight Eisenhower the third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal, Pentagon, Virginia, United States, 7 Feb 1948, photo 2 of 2