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Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signing the Treaty of San Francisco, California, United States, 8 Sep 1951, photo 2 of 2	Map showing British radar range between Sep 1939 and Sep 1940, published in 1953	Map of the layout of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. A symbol of a cross with a wreath marks the location of the Horák family farm where all 173 of Lidice’s men were murdered by the SS on 10 Jun 1942.	Crew of the USS Bennington honoring the sunken USS Arizona as she passes in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 31 May 1958. Note that Bennington now has an angled flight deck and a starboard side deck edge aircraft elevator.

1959 chart of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.	Japanese Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine used in the Pearl Harbor Attack recovered from the Keehi Lagoon off Honolulu, Hawaii, 6 Jul 1960. A floating heavy-lift crane is lowering the submarine onto a lighter.	USS Current alongside Pearl Harbor Salvage Dock as Floating Crane YD-121 lifts a Japanese Type A Kō-hyōteki-class midget submarine used in the Pearl Harbor Attack salvaged from Oahu’s Keehi Lagoon, 14 Jul 1960.	Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in Taiwan, Taipei City Hall (now Zhongshan Hall), Taipei, Taiwan, 25 Oct 1965, photo 1 of 2

Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in Taiwan, Taipei City Hall (now Zhongshan Hall), Taipei, Taiwan, 25 Oct 1965, photo 2 of 2	Painting 'Battle of the River Plate' by Edward Tufnell	American tank rusting off Betio, Tarawa Atoll, post-war	Jimmy Carter and Giscard d'Estaing visited monument on Omaha Beach, Normandy, 5 Jan 1978

Mrs. Nancy Reagan laying flowers at the Omaha Beach Memorial Cemetery, Normandy, France, 11 Jun 1982	President Ronald Reagan spoke at the 40th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1984	Comprehensive survey of the wreck of the USS Arizona on the floor of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii commissioned by the National Park Service and conducted by the University of Arizona, 1986	Brass marker affixed to the Verandah Deck of the USS Missouri on the spot where the Japanese surrender was signed 2 Sept 1945. This is at least the third marker used and is now on the Missouri museum ship in Pearl Harbor

Former Army Captain David Williams (white knit cap) speaking to reporters outside the White House, 13 Jan 1997. At right is Grace Woodfork, sister of the late Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers.	The entrance to Ouvrage Schoenenbourg along the Maginot Line in Alsace	US Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Terry Scott inspecting an old Japanese Type 96 25mm gun at Iwo Jima, Japan, 23 Mar 2003	American military cemetery at Normandy, summer 2003