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View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (center, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (top right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (top center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note heavy cruiser Tone underway at right edge of the photograph, photo 2 of 2	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (just out of view, wake seen at bottom) and Tokitsukaze (bottom right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (bottom center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note a stick of five falling bombs at top right and another stick of four falling bombs at center

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese heavy cruiser Tone, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	The submarine USS Nautilus approaching the pier at the submarine base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 25 Aug 1942.

Battleship Iowa being prepared for launching, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, late Aug 1942	The submarine USS Argonaut approaching the pier at the submarine base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 26 Aug 1942.

2-inch mortar team of UK Royal Scots Fusiliers, Scotland, United Kingdom, 27 Aug 1942	Laying the keel of submarine Dorado, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 27 Aug 1942

A Wildcat lifted from APV Kitty Hawk to ACV Long Island, Fila Harbor, New Hebrides (now Port Vila, Vanuatu), 28 Aug 1942	Battleship Iowa shortly after launching, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, late Aug 1942

2-inch mortar team of 1st Royal Ulster Rifles, UK 1st Airborne Division in Britain, 29 Aug 1942	Doherty (as HMS Berry) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 29 Aug 1942

USS Copahee underway off Port Angeles, Washington, United States, 30 Aug 1942	USS Copahee underway, 31 Aug 1942

A German soldier near Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942	A German truck driving through the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, with columns of smoke visible in background, Sep 1942

Aerial view of Stalingrad from a German bomber, Russia, Sep 1942	African-American baritone singer Paul Robeson leading the song 'Star Spangled Banner' at Moore Shipyard, Oakland, California, United States, Sep 1942

African-American welder Ernest Enloe Cotton learning from a more experienced colleague while building Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington, California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Los Angeles, California, United States, Sep 1942	American photograph of a captured Japanese ammunition box with ammunition strips for the Type 92 machine gun, Guadalcanal, 1942.