14 May 1946
Germany
![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](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_mugford12.jpg)
Germany
- At the trials at Dachau Concentration Camp, the US charged SS-Hauptsturmführer Friedrich Becker (head of the labor department at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp), 33 low-ranking SS personnel, 16 prisoner functionaries, and 2 civilians for crimes committed at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp during the war. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
- USS Baya was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Baya | Vallejo, California | CPC]
![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](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_mugford12.jpg)
![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](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_mugford13.jpg)
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