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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

Cutaway of the electrical energizer for the VT proximity fuze developed by the National Carbon Corporation, from a 1946 Bureau of Ordnance publication.	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.	United States Coast Guard Cutter Spencer in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, United States, 17 May 1946.

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

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

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

Dr. Klaus Schilling on the gallows at Landsberg, Germany, 28 May 1946. Schilling was convicted at the Dachau war crimes trials for conducting infectious disease experiments on prisoners.	Captured German cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Panama Canal en route to Bikini Atoll, 1946

Group portrait of Australian Governor-General's flight with York aircraft 'Endeavour', RAAF Base Fairbairn, Canberra, Australia, Jun 1946	Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946

Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946	Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946

Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946	Rudolf Höss under guard, Germany or Poland, mid-1946