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Savo Island wearing camouflage and carrying aircraft, date unknown	Savo Island, date unknown

Scharnhorst's after gun turret and catapult	Scharnhorst's rangefinder hood, mast, and flag

Seaplane carrier Nisshin, date unknown	Sükhbaatar, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Khuva, and Choibalsan, 1921

US General George Stratemeyer visiting He Ruomei in a hospital, China, 17 Aug 1945; He had been arrested and tortured by the Japanese in Apr 1945 for assisting downed US airmen	USS Cony laying smoke screen near USS West Virginia, off Leyte

View of Tainan, Taiwan, 1934	WAAF fabric workers and workshop hands at a RAF Coastal Command Maintenance Unit cleaning and painting a Whitley Mark V bomber of No. 51 Squadron RAF, RAF Gosport, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown

WAAF trainee balloon operators learning their first lesson in tethering a kite balloon with a model at No. 1 Balloon Training Unit, RAF Cardington, Shortstown, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s	Yubari prior to WW2

William Laurence on Tinian, Mariana Islands, Aug 1945.	Earliest known shipyard plan of Rickmers shipyard, Bremerhaven, Germany, 1847

Earliest known shipyard diagram of H. C. Stülcken Sohn of Hamburg, Germany, 1853	Drawing of the shipyard later known as Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg, Germany, 1859

Drawing of the shipyard later known as Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg, Germany, 1859	Shipyard modernization plan of Rickmers shipyard, Bremerhaven, Germany, drawn in 1860

Shipyard modernization plan of Rickmers shipyard, Bremerhaven, Germany, drawn in 1862; note five longitudinal slips planned and without the horizontal slip	Fuzhou Arsenal under construction, Fujian Province, China, 1867-1871