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USS Shangri-La underway off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States, 9 Feb 1955	Aerial view of Bellows Air Force Base, Oahu, Hawaii, Feb 21, 1955, when Bellows’ aviation era was winding down.

Inactive cruiser Minneapolis being overhauled at Keystone Ship Engineering and Drydock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, spring 1955	President Rhee Syngman and Chief of Staff Chung Il-kwon, 10 Mar 1955

USS Shangri-La underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 24 Mar 1955	U Nu at the Bandung Conference, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, 18-24 Apr 1955

USS Conecuh at anchor, Hampton Roads, off Virginia, United States, 25 Apr 1955	Heusinger and other chiefs of the Amt Blank at Bonn, Germany, 5 May 1955

Ivan Konev (left), Konstantin Rokossovsky (center), and Georgy Zhukov (right) attending the Warsaw Conference, Poland, 10 May 1955	Aerial view of the Reserve Fleet Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 19 May 1955

USS Sterlet off US Territory of Hawaii, 19 May 1955	Rear Admiral Burke touring nuclear submarine USS Nautilus, New London Submarine Base, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 31 May 1955

USS Cassin Young (DD-793) in Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, United States, 9 Jun 1955, seen during commissioning ceremony of USS Vital	Lieutenant Commander R. A. Harris assuming command of USS Charr, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 30 Jun 1955

Burmese Prime Minister U Nu presenting a USD $5,000 check to US President Dwight Eisenhower for the families of Americans who fell in Burma during WW2, White House, Washington DC, United States, 3 Jul 1955; John Foster Dulles and U Thant in background	Portrait of Admiral Burke, 8 Jul 1955, photo 1 of 2

Portrait of Admiral Burke, 8 Jul 1955, photo 2 of 2	Admiral Burke taking oath as US Navy Chief of Naval Operations, Dahlgren Hall, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, United States, 17 Aug 1955; Rear Admiral Ira Nunn was administering the oath

Luz Magsaysay, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ramón Magsaysay in Manila, Philippines, 26 Aug 1955	Trials Cruiser HMS Cumberland off Malta in pre-wetting experiments designed to keep radioactive fallout particles from adhering to a ship’s surfaces, Sep 1955.