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Yu Xuezhong, circa mid-1950s	Crown Prince Akihito and Emperor Showa playing shogi, with Empress Kojun watching, Japan, Jan 1955	USS Wasp underway off Taiwan, 5 Jan 1955	Chiang Kaishek, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Sun Li-jen at the funeral for those fallen at Battle of Yijiangshan Islands, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, 7 Feb 1955

USS Intrepid off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 9 Feb 1955; note F2H Banshee aircraft on flight deck	USS Shangri-La underway off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States, 9 Feb 1955	Aerial view of Bellows Air Force Base, Oahu, Hawaii, Feb 21, 1955, when Bellows’ aviation era was winding down.	Inactive cruiser Minneapolis being overhauled at Keystone Ship Engineering and Drydock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, spring 1955

President Rhee Syngman and Chief of Staff Chung Il-kwon, 10 Mar 1955	USS Shangri-La underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 24 Mar 1955	U Nu at the Bandung Conference, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, 18-24 Apr 1955	Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill greeting Queen Elizabeth II as she arrives for dinner at 10 Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom, April 4, 1955. Churchill resigned the following day

USS Conecuh at anchor, Hampton Roads, off Virginia, United States, 25 Apr 1955	Heusinger and other chiefs of the Amt Blank at Bonn, Germany, 5 May 1955	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