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Iwane Matsui during the trial for war crimes at International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 19 Jun 1947	Ilse Koch at the US Military Tribunal in Dachau, Germany, 8 Jul 1947	Emperor Showa visiting the Joban coal field, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Aug 1947	Chiang Kaishek inspecting Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, 7 Aug 1947

Emperor Showa visiting Koiwai Farm, Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, 9 Aug 1947	Prince Josias at the Buchenwald trial, Dachau, Germany, 14 Aug 1947	Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lady Edwina Mountbatten at the swearing in ceremony of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at Government House, New Delhi, India, 0830 hours, 15 Aug 1947	Lord Mountbatten addressing the Independence Day session of the Constituent Assembly, India, 15 Aug 1947; note President of the Assembly Rajendra Prasad seated to his right

Louis Mountbatten, Edwina Mountbatten, and Jawaharlal Nehru during the independence ceremony of India, 15 Aug 1947	Louis Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Rajendra Prasad at the Midnight Session of Parliament, India, 15 Aug 1947	Saburo Sugiura presenting items for Emperor Showa's inspection, Tamahata Village, Nakakoma District (now Kai City) in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, Oct 1947; the village was suffering from a schistosomiasis endemic	Yeager in front of the X-1 aircraft, 14 Oct 1947

Artur Axmann being interviewed, Bayern, Germany, 16 Oct 1947	Emperor Showa gazing at the Cryptomeria tree 'Great sugi of Kayano', Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan, 27 Oct 1947	Members of the General Board of the US Navy, Washingtin DC, United States, Nov 1947; left to right: Colonel Randolph Pate, Admiral Walter Boone, Admiral Charles McMorris, Admiral John Towers, Rear Admiral Charles Momsen, Captain Leon Huffman, Commander J. M. Lee, and Captain Arleigh Burke	Clement Attlee, Violet Attlee, and others at Schiphol airport, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, 3 Nov 1947

US Army portrait of Eisenhower, 18 Nov 1947	Thakin Nu visiting Mohandas Gandhi at the Birla House, New Delhi, Delhi, India, 4 Dec 1947	Emperor Showa visiting Hiroshima, Japan, 7 Dec 1947; note Hiroshima Peace Memorial in background	1948 staged photo of physicists Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd recreating their collaboration on a 1939 letter to Franklin Roosevelt urging the development of atomic weapons.