16,333 items in this album on 817 pages.
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| USS Iowa off Bayonne, New Jersey, United States, 29 Mar 1943 | USS Salt Lake City at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, 29 Mar 1943, three days after participating in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. Note the marks on her side, possibly from ice damage. |
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| Portrait of Lieutenant General George Patton, 30 Mar 1943 | US Navy K-class airship K-111 conducting exercises with Escort Carrier USS Rudyerd Bay off San Diego, California, United States, 30 Mar 1943. |
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| 155 mm Howitzer Carriage M1917 or M1918 howitzer and crew in exercise, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States, Apr 1943 | A platoon of African-American US Marine Corps recruits listening to drill instructor Sergeant Gilbert Hubert Johnson, Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Apr 1943 |
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| Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Admiral Jinichi Kusaka at Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, Apr 1943 | Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto and Matome Ugaki, Rabaul, New Britain, Apr 1943 |
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| African-American US Marine Corps Corporal Arvin Lou Ghazlo giving judo instructions to Private Ernest C. Jones, Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Apr 1943; note M1 Garand rifle | American officers at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa 1943; among them were Brigadier General A. F. Howard, Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson, Major General Charles D. Barrett, and Major General Robert S. Beighter |
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| Arthur Coningham, Carl Spaatz, Arthur Tedder, and Laurence Kuter, Apr 1943 | B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Barber Bob' of 93rd Bomber Group, US 328th Bomber Squadron based on RAF Hardwick, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Feb-May 1943 |
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| Consolidated Liberator Mark IIIA of RAF No. 224 Squadron returning to Beaulieu, Hampshire, United Kingdom, following a mission to escort a North African convoy, circa 1943. | Curtiss C-46 Commando in flight, early 1943, probably over the United States. |
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| Diagram of torpedo damage to USS New Orleans sustained in the Battle of Tassafaronga that resulted in 150 feet of her bow being blown off. | Elco 80-foot motor torpedo boat simultaneously launching two practice torpedoes during a training exercise in United States waters, 1942-44. |
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| False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943. | Female African-American shipyard worker Anna Bland working on Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver at Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, Apr 1943 |
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| Female African-American Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter, Flossie Burtos, and another unidentified worker working on the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver, Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, Apr 1943 | Female African-American worker Eastine Cowner working on Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver, Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, Apr 1943 |
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