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Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz watching an anti-submarine weapons demonstration aboard destroyer USS Wiltsie in the Atlantic Ocean, 11 May 1946	General Douglas MacArthur greeting Australian Prime Minister Joseph Chifley at Atsugi Airfield, Japan, 13 May 1946

Mugford at Pearl Harbor while being prepared for use as a target for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, 14 May 1946, photo 1 of 2	Mugford at Pearl Harbor while being prepared for use as a target for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, 14 May 1946, photo 2 of 2

Cutaway of the electrical energizer for the VT proximity fuze developed by the National Carbon Corporation, from a 1946 Bureau of Ordnance publication.	Mitscher in cockpit on board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 15 May 1946

Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments.	United States Coast Guard Cutter Spencer in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, United States, 17 May 1946.

Incomplete Unryu-class carrier Ikoma, Shodoshima, Japan, 23 May 1946	Dr. Klaus Schilling on the gallows at Landsberg, Germany, 28 May 1946. Schilling was convicted at the Dachau war crimes trials for conducting infectious disease experiments on prisoners.

Captured German cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Panama Canal en route to Bikini Atoll, 1946	Group portrait of Australian Governor-General's flight with York aircraft 'Endeavour', RAAF Base Fairbairn, Canberra, Australia, Jun 1946

Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946	Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946

Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946	Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946

Rudolf Höss under guard, Germany or Poland, mid-1946	The defendants at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Ichigaya Court, Tokyo, Japan, May-Jun 1946

USAT George Washington Carver, mid-1946	USS Bowfin on the Hudson River, New York City, New York, United States, circa 1946.