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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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USS Alabama during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942 | USS New Mexico, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Dec 1942 |
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USS North Carolina at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii, late 1942; note measure 21 camouflage | USS S-35 sailors in US Territory of Alaska, circa Dec 1942 |
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View of USS Alabama from the fantail during her shakedown period, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Dec 1942 | Wildcat, circa 1942-1943 |
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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. |
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Injured man on a stretcher aboard USS Minneapolis, 1 Dec 1942 | Soviet 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun and crew, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Dec 1942; note the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange building in background |
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Soviet leaders reviewing a map of Stalingrad, Russia, 1 Dec 1942; left to right: Nikita Khrushchev, Alexei Ilarionovich, Alexei Chuyanov, Andrey Yeryomenko | Soviet snipers moving amongst ruined buildings in Stalingrad, Russia, 1 Dec 1942 |
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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 |