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An oblique aerial view of the Ewa Plain, Oahu, Hawaii looking east, Oct 14, 1953. Barbers Point Naval Air Station is in the center and the former Ewa Marine Corps Air Station beyond.	US Ambassador Carl Rankin, US Vice President Richard Nixon, ROC army chief General Sun Li-jen, and ROC secret police chief Chiang Ching-kuo in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, 8-12 Nov 1953

Lieutenant General Clifton Cates cutting a cake during the celebration of the anniversary of the establishment of the US Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, United States, 10 Nov 1953, photo 1 of 2; Brigaider General Robert Bare and Major General Edwin Pollock in background	Lieutenant General Clifton Cates cutting a cake during the celebration of the anniversary of the establishment of the US Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, United States, 10 Nov 1953, photo 2 of 2; Brigaider General Robert Bare and Major General Edwin Pollock in background

12 P-51D Mustang fighters of the Chinese Air Force, Taiwan, Republic of China, late 1953; these aircraft were purchased from the US with money donated by the citizens of Taiwan	Shigeru Yoshida and his granddaughter, Dec 1953

Shigeru Yoshida, Dec 1953	Lieutenant Commander George Kittredge being relieved by the new commanding officer of USS Sterlet, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 1 Dec 1953

Submarine Tinosa after her deactivation overhaul and decommissioning at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 Dec 1953.	USS Manta at Key West, Florida, United States, 14 Dec 1953

Inauguration ceremony of President Ramón Magsaysay and Vice President Carlos Garcia, Independence Grandstand (now Quirino Grandstand), Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines, 30 Dec 1953	A soldier of the French Foreign Legionnaire in the Red River Delta, between Haiphong and Hanoi, Vietnam, circa 1954; note American-built M24 Chaffee light tank in background

Aft view of USS Ticonderoga, circa 1954	Arromanches at anchor in Tourane (now Da Nang) Bay, French Indochina, 1953-1954

Colonel Benjamin Davis, Jr., commander of the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing, leading a formation of three F-86F Sabre jet fighters during the Korean War, 1954	Cruiser HMS Cumberland in 1954 in her final role as a trials platform for many different types of weapons systems as well as smaller pieces of equipment prior to their introduction into the Fleet. Location unknown.

Destroyer escort USS Tabberer in the mid-1950s during her second commissioning, Atlantic Ocean.	Hachiro Arita, early 1954

Jackie Cochran and Chuck Yeager being presented with the Harmon International Trophies by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, circa 1953-1961	Ma Bufang and members of his family in Cairo, Egypt, 1954