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US Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne preparing for a jump, North Africa, late 1942; note CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport truck	USS Alabama during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942

USS Alabama during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942	USS Alabama during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942

USS Alabama during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942	USS Alabama during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942

USS Alabama during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942	USS North Carolina at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii, late 1942; note measure 21 camouflage

View of USS Alabama from the fantail during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942	Wildcat, circa 1942-1943

Down by the bow, USS New Orleans arriving in Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 Dec 1942. The night before, New Orleans was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tassafaronga that blew off 150 feet of her bow.	Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-109 commanded by Ensign Bryant L Larson delivering 96 survivors from the sunken cruiser USS Northampton to Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 Dec 1942. Note the cruiser USS New Orleans at left.

USS Minneapolis in Tulagi, Solomon Islands, under repair for torpedo damage received during Battle of Tassafaronga, 1 Dec 1942; note her bow being cut away	A page out of a Manhattan Project scientist's notebook, noting the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, achieved on 2 Dec 1942

USS San Francisco at Pearl Harbor with crew manning the rails, US Territory of Hawaii, 4 Dec 1942	African-American US WAAC cooks prepared dinner for the first time in new kitchen at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, United States, 5 Dec 1942

After exiting drydock, USS Nevada laid at anchor for one day in Sinclair Inlet off Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 5 Dec 1942.	Three US Navy K-class airships from Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-11 inside Hangar One at NAS South Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States, Dec 6, 1942.

Christening of battleship New Jersey by Carolyn Edison, wife of New Jersey Governor and former Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 7 Dec 1942	Launching of submarine Bowfin, 7 Dec 1942, Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States.