16,333 items in this album on 817 pages.
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| The training aircraft carrier USS Sable in the icy waters of Lake Erie on the day of her commissioning in Buffalo, New York, United States, 8 May 1943. | USS Ancon, Chesapeake Bay, United States, 8 May 1943 |
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| USS Spearfish off Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California on 8 May 1943. The two humps above her engine rooms accommodate newly installed mufflers. Note the deck gun forward and the barrage balloons. | Mother's Day religious service, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, United States, 9 May 1943 |
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| The launching of the USS Robalo at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, May 9, 1943. | US Army Private First Class George Chapman and Sergeant John Eppard working at the Mobile Machine Shop truck of 741st Ordnance Company, 41th Infantry Division at Horanda, New Guinea, 9 May 1943 |
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| US Army radioman Corporal John Robbins operating his SCR 188, Dobodura, New Guinea, 9 May 1943 | USS Copahee in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 9 May 1943, photo 1 of 3; note three TBD Devastator aircraft on the fantail |
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| USS Copahee in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 9 May 1943, photo 2 of 3; note TBD Devastator and PV-1 Ventura aircraft on flight deck | USS Copahee in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 9 May 1943, photo 3 of 3; note two PV-1 Ventura aircraft |
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| American troops at Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, 11 May 1943 | Destroyer USS Pruitt and landing craft from USS Heywood moving toward Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, 11 May 1943 |
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| USS Pennsylvania’s #4 main battery seen from under the wing of an OS2U Kingfisher catapult scout plane as the battleship is preparing for the bombardment of Attu Island in the Aleutians, 11 May 1943. | US Army soldiers unloading LCPR and LCM type landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian islands, 12 May 1943; note military policemen on right side of photo |
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| American soldiers unloading landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, 13 May 1943 | Close up view of the main guns in USS Iowa’s number 3 turret flanked by 20mm Oerlikons while at anchor in Chesapeake Bay, United States, 13 May 1943 |
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| Workers paintingin the hull of USS Searaven during an overhaul, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 13 May 1943 | American troops traveling across snow and ice during the Battle of Attu Island, May 1943 |
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| Chinese observers attached to Allied units posing with a captured German Fw 190 fighter, North Africa, 15 May 1943; left to right: Major Huang, General Lam (Air Force), General Hu Xianqun, Colonel Lee (military intelligence) | Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill fishing at Shangri-La (now Camp David), Maryland, United States, mid-May 1943 |
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