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SB-17 aircraft at Narsarsuaq Air Base, Greenland, circa 1952	Sun Li-jen and Chiang Ching-kuo, Taiwan, Republic of China, circa early 1950s

Tang Enbo (rear row, 2nd from left), Hiroshi Nemoto (front row, third from left), and others, circa 1950s	The former PT-694, a 70-foot Vosper, with the Hughes Tool Company as a service boat in the H-4 Flying Boat project, 1950s. Later sold to Universal Studios and painted as PT-73 for the opening credits of “McHale’s Navy.”

United States Navy portrait of Captain Edwin Layton, 1950s.	US Air Force General Curtis LeMay with his signature cigar watching an early atomic bomb test from a US Navy ship, early-1950s

US Marine Corps AU-1 Corsair fighter in flight, 1952	US Marine Corps AU-1 Corsair fighter in flight, 1952; seen in May 1952 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

US Navy P4Y1P Liberator, SNB-2P, F4U-5P Corsair, F6F-5P Hellcat, F8F-2P Bearcat, F9F-5P Panther, and F2H-2P Banshee aircraft in flight, circa 1952; seen in Aug 1952 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	USS Baya and research vessel PCE(R) on a mission for the US Navy Electronics Laboratory, date unknown

USS Baya underway, date unknown; note additional equipment behind the conning tower	USS Baya, date unknown; note additional equipment behind the conning tower

USS Flying Fish underway, circa 1951; note Gruppen Horsch Gerat sonar taken from German cruiser Prinz Eugen	USS Iowa off Korea, 1952

USS Manta in port, date unknown	USS Ray underway, circa late 1952

USS Saint Paul underway, date unknown	USS Sea Cat underway, circa mid-1950s

USS Shangri-La conducting nuclear fallout wash down test, circa 1952; seen in Sep 1954 issue of US Navy publication All Hands	USS Tunny entering San Diego harbor, California, United States, circa 1952