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Cruiser USS Pasadena laying off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 2 May 1946.	Chiang Kaishek on the occasion of the Republic of China government officially returning to the capital of Nanjing, China, 5 May 1946	F4U-4 Corsair aircraft of US Navy squadron VF-75 and SB2C-4E Helldiver aircraft of US Navy squadron VT-75 in flight over USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, western Atlantic Ocean, 5 May 1946	Allied officers during a parade in Berlin, Germany, 6 May 1946; note ruins of Reichstag building in background

Admiral Mitscher and Commodore Burke aboard USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 7 May 1946; other officers were Captain Thomas Regan, Vice Admiral Bernhard Bieri, and Lieutenant Commander Remington	PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. D tank (foreground), PzKpfw V Panther Ausf. G tanks (two tanks in the center), and SdKfz 165 Hummel self-propelled gun (left edge of photo) of the Romanian Tudor Vladimirescu Division during the National Day Parade, Romania, 10 May 1946	Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz watching an anti-submarine weapons demonstration aboard destroyer USS Wiltsie in the Atlantic Ocean, 11 May 1946	General Douglas MacArthur greeting Australian Prime Minister Joseph Chifley at Atsugi Airfield, Japan, 13 May 1946

Mugford at Pearl Harbor while being prepared for use as a target for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, 14 May 1946, photo 1 of 2	Mugford at Pearl Harbor while being prepared for use as a target for the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, 14 May 1946, photo 2 of 2	Cutaway of the electrical energizer for the VT proximity fuze developed by the National Carbon Corporation, from a 1946 Bureau of Ordnance publication.	Mitscher in cockpit on board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 15 May 1946

Navy Bureau of Ordnance diagram showing a VT fuze’s area of radio sensitivity and comparative blast zone for shell fragments.	United States Coast Guard Cutter Spencer in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, United States, 17 May 1946.	Incomplete Unryu-class carrier Ikoma, Shodoshima, Japan, 23 May 1946	Dr. Klaus Schilling on the gallows at Landsberg, Germany, 28 May 1946. Schilling was convicted at the Dachau war crimes trials for conducting infectious disease experiments on prisoners.

Captured German cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Panama Canal en route to Bikini Atoll, 1946	Group portrait of Australian Governor-General's flight with York aircraft 'Endeavour', RAAF Base Fairbairn, Canberra, Australia, Jun 1946	Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946	Lord Louis Mountbatten inspecting Malayan troops at Kensington Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1946