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Captain Burke inspecting the crew of USS Huntington, Nov 1948	Captured Type 97 Chi-Ha tank in use by communist Chinese forces, Mukden (now Shenyang), China, late Oct or early Nov 1948

Chiang Kaishek and Du Yuming, Beiping, China, Nov 1948	Chiang Kaishek and Wei Lihuang in Beiping, China, Nov 1948

F4U-5 fighter of US Navy squadron VF-23 aboard USS Wright, Nov 1948	Fu Zuoyi, Chiang Kaishek, and Wei Lihuang in Beiping, China, Nov 1948

Li Mi at Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, Nov 1948	Li Mi dining with fellow officers, Jiangsu Province, China, late 1948

Truman holding a copy of Chicago Tribune that mistakenly anticipated his defeat in the 1948 election by Thomas Dewey, Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 3 Nov 1948, photo 1 of 2	Truman holding a copy of Chicago Tribune that mistakenly anticipated his defeat in the 1948 election by Thomas Dewey, Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 3 Nov 1948, photo 2 of 2

Pensacola in Puget Sound, en route for disposal as target, 9 Nov 1948	Former Prime Minister Koki Hirota listening to Sir William Webb of Australia sentencing him to death at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Ichigaya Court, Tokyo, Japan, 12 Nov 1948

Hideki Tojo receiving his death sentence, Tokyo, Japan, 12 Nov 1948	Decommissioning of USS Blackfin, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 19 Nov 1948

Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft being used to transport cattle by Javanese, 28 Nov 1948	Javanese natives operating Japanese-built Daihatsu-class landing craft, 28 Nov 1948

Displaced persons boarding merchant ship Svalbard at Genoa, Italy, Dec 1948; many of these passengers would later be disembarking in Australia	Su Yu, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Tan Zhenlin, China, Dec 1948

Canadian Ford CMP truck in post-war service as an ambulance in Poerworedjo, Java (now Purworejo), 1 Dec 1948.	F4U-4 Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-212 in flight over Wright Memorial, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States, 17 Dec 1948; seen in Feb 1949 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News