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Chiang Kaishek aboard USS Wasp, off Taiwan, 10 Jan 1954	Hornet en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 Jan 1954	Superstructure of USS Wasp while off Taiwan, 10 Jan 1954; note Republic of China naval ensign for the occasion of visit by Chiang Kaishek	US President Dwight Eisenhower with Medal of Honor recipients Edward Schowalter, Jr., Ernest West, and William Charette, White House, Washington DC, United States, 12 Jan 1954

USS Sicily and USS Yorktown at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, early Feb 1954; note AF Guardian aircraft on Sicily and AD Skyraider aircraft on Yorktown	USS Hancock off Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 4 Mar 1954	US President Dwight Eisenhower and US Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, 30 Mar 1954	USS Kyne underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 1 Apr 1953; photograph taken from an aircraft from Naval Air Station New York

AU-1 Corsair fighters aboard USS Saipan in the South China Sea, 18 Apr 1954; these aircraft were formerly of US Marine Corps but now en route to be delivered to the French Navy	Lieutenant General Blackshear Bryan and Major General Lewis Puller at US Marine I Corps headquarters, 19 Apr 1954	USS Hancock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 28 Apr 1954	Chiang Kaishek an Chiang Ching-kuo visiting Dachen Islands, Zhejiang Province, Republic of China, 8 May 1954

Recommissioning ceremony of Guitarro, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 15 May 1954	Submarine Guitarro being prepared for transfer to Turkey, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Jun 1954	US President Dwight Eisenhower signing the law that officially changed the holiday Armistice Day to Veterans Day, White House, Washington DC, United States, 1 Jun 1954	USS Iowa (foreground), USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri, and USS New Jersey (background) off the Virginia Capes, Virginia, United States, 7 Jun 1954

Canadian Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Eden, and Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Pearson at Rockcliffe Airport, Ottawa, Canada, 29 Jun 1954	A composite map of Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 1954 Jun 30. Note that north is in the about 4:00 o’clock direction.	Major General Good and Major General Lewis Puller at Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, 1 Jul 1954; Puller had just taken command of US 2nd Marine Division	Major General Lewis Puller handing the US 2nd Marine Division flags to Brigadier General Edward Snedeker shortly after Puller took command of the division, Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, 1 Jul 1954