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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	Sumiteru Taniguchi being treated for the severe burns on his back, suffered during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 31 Jan 1946

American submarine Apogon alongside a LCVP from LST 52, circa Feb 1946	Andrée de Jongh having just been awarded the George Medal at the Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom, Feb 1946

Courtroom interior, Nuremberg, Germany, early 1946. Note Göring, Heß, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Dönitz, and Raeder in the dock at right.	Group of 104 German rocket scientists, including Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, at Fort Bliss, Texas, United States, 1946

J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Guest House, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, circa Feb 1946	Japanese prisoners of war aboard a repatriation ship, early 1946

Koryu submarines in a partially flooded drydock at Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, Feb 1946	LSM vessel being loaded with China Relief supplies at Huangpu River, Shanghai, early 1946

Nagato in port, Japan, early 1946	O'Callahan at military mass at the high altar of Candaleria Cathedral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt's shakedown cruise, Feb 1946; note US Marine with M1 rifle on left

Two unidentified US Army officers, Zhang Lingfu, Bai Chongxi, He Yingqin, Shi Zhongcheng, Qiu Weida, Chen Chuanjun, and Pi Xuanqiu, Nanjing, Feb 1946	Letter to US President Harry Truman to request clemency for Yamashita, 5 Feb 1946

Letter to US Secretary of War Robert Patterson to request clemency for Yamashita, 5 Feb 1946	Request for Executive Clemency for Yamashita, addressed to Truman, 5 Feb 1946, page 1 of 4