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Lockheed-Vega B-17G Fortress bomber 44-85784 converted as a testbed with gunner pods on the wingtips, General Electric Flight Test Center, Schenectady, New York, circa 1950.	Tiburon Naval Net Depot, Tiburon, California, United States, 1950s.	Carrier Langley being reactivated at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, United States, Jan 1951	USS Independence, damaged in atomic bomb tests, in San Francisco Bay being prepared for sinking after efforts to wash off the radioactivity were unsuccessful, Jan 1951

US Marine Corps Band, directed by Major William Santleman, playing for Commandant Clifton Cates, Washington DC, United States, 1 Jan 1951	Commanding officers of the jointly recommissioned destroyers USS Nicholas and USS O’Bannon at Mare Island, California, 15 Feb 1951. Commander Harry Mason (left; Nicholas) and Commander Daniel Carrison (right; O’Bannon).	Joint commissioning ceremony for USS Nicholas (left) and USS O’Bannon at Mare Island, Vallejo, California, 15 Feb 1951. Note Nicholas’s No. 2 gun mount has been replaced with a hedgehog anti-submarine spigot mortar.	USS Caiman underway off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, spring 1951

US Marine Corps General Clifton Cates with British Royal Marine Commandant-General Colonel A. G. Ferguson-Warren, Harry Lee Hall, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, United States, 9 Mar 1951	Overhead view of USS Nicholas at Mare Islands Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Mar 1951. Photo 1 of 2.	Overhead view of USS Nicholas at Mare Islands Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Mar 1951. Photo 2 of 2.	Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion presenting US President Harry Truman with a Menorah, White House, Washington DC, United States, 8 May 1951; Israeli Ambassador to US Abba Eban also present

Raising of the French flag aboard the ex-USS Langley upon being commissioned as the La Fayette in the French Navy, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, United States, 2 Jun 1951	Senior US military officers saluting as Forrest Sherman's body arrived at Washington National Airport, Virginia, United States, 25 Jul 1951	Recommissioning of USS Menhaden, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 7 Aug 1951	USS Saint Paul under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, United States, Sep 1951

Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signing the Treaty of San Francisco, California, United States, 8 Sep 1951, photo 1 of 2	Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signing the Treaty of San Francisco, California, United States, 8 Sep 1951, photo 2 of 2	USS Caiman at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 25 Sep 1951; note USS Charr and USS Baya in background	USS Caiman departing Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 25 Sep 1951, photo 1 of 2