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Boston and Canberra nested together during change of command ceremony (RAdm Martell relieved RAdm Melson, ComCruDiv4), Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia, US, 14 Apr 1958; note Intrepid in background	USS Boston and USS Canberra practicing high-line operations for the transfer of WW2 Unknown Soldier, 22 Apr 1958

Admiral Burke in his Pentagon office, posing with the 'Pipe Smoker of the Year' award, Arlington, Virginia, United States, 23 May 1958	Aboard USS Canberra, US Navy Hospitalman William R. Charette selecting the Unknown Serviceman of WW2 for burial in Arlington National Cemetery; off Virginia, United States, 26 May 1958

Crew of the USS Bennington honoring the sunken USS Arizona as she passes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 31 May 1958. Note that Bennington now has an angled flight deck and a starboard side deck edge aircraft elevator.	Aerial view of Midway Atoll, date unknown; seen in Jun 1958 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

Enterprise at New York Navy Yard 10 days before her scrapping, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 22 Jun 1958	H-34 Chocktaw helicopters aboard USS Corregidor, off Lebanon, Jul 1958; seen in Oct 1958 issue of US Navy Naval Aviation News

L-20 aircraft of US Army 24th Infantry Division taking off from USS Corregidor off Lebanon, Jul 1958; seen in Oct 1958 issue of US Navy Naval Aviation News	Bf 108 aircraft in flight during the filming of a movie, Beemster, the Netherlands, 23 Jul 1958

USS Rock at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 28 Jul 1958	USS Caiman at San Francisco, California, United States after an overhaul, 31 Jul 1958

USS Pompon and USS Thornback receiving supplies from USS Saratoga, 17 Aug 1958	View of antenna of USS Cassin Young immediately after her overhaul at Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Oct 1958

USS Cassin Young underway off Block Island, Rhode Island, United States, 4 Oct 1958	Sir Winston Churchill receiving honors aboard the USS Randolph at Cannes, France, 26 Oct 1958. This was Churchill’s first visit to a warship since World War II.

Alexander von Falkenhausen having just received a Chinese award, Germany, 28 Nov 1958	Chinese ambassador to Belgium Wang Xiaoxi presenting an award to Alexander von Falkenhausen, Germany, 28 Nov 1958

Portrait of Admiral Burke, 15 Dec 1958	1959 chart of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.