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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.	Vyacheslav Molotov, Heinrich von Brentano, Konrad Adenauer, Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Pervukhin at a performance of Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia, 10 Sep 1955

Burke, in flight suit, arrived at Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, US aboard an A3D jet bomber, 15 Sep 1955; meeting him were VAdm Doyle, RAdm Gallery, RAdm Forrestel, and Capt Hollingsworth	Admiral Arleigh Burke and Vice Admiral Austin Doyle in front of the Headquarters of the Chief of Naval Air Training, Naval Air Station Glenview, Illinois, United States, 16 Sep 1955

Erich Raeder and his wife on the date of his release from Spandau prison, Berlin, Germany, 26 Sep 1955	Hong Xuezhi, Xiao Hua, Su Yu, and Chen Geng at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, Oct 1955

Su Yu at an event at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 1 Oct 1955	Crew of USS Segundo hearing an address during her change of command at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 18 Oct 1955

Haskell-class attack transport USS Bexar underway, Nov 1955	Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov speaking with French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay, Geneva, Switzerland, 12 Nov 1955