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British Martlet II (Wildcat) fighter at La Senia airbase, Oran, Algeria, 14 Dec 1942, photo 2 of 2 | Chicago at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 14 Dec 1942 |
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USS San Francisco at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 14 Dec 1942; note circles marking shell damage during Naval Battle of Guadalcanal of 13 Nov 1942 | Pensacola at Espiritu Santo on 17 Dec 1942, showing damage sustained at Battle of Tassafaronga |
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Fletcher-class destroyer Hoel being launched at the Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, 19 Dec 1942. | SBD Dauntless aircraft flying over USS Enterprise (foreground) and USS Saratoga (background), off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 19 Dec 1942 |
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Chicago off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, at the end of her last overhaul, 20 Dec 1942 | John Day of US 7th Marine Regiment on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 21 Dec 1942 |
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Albert Speer sitting on doorsteps, 22 Dec 1942 | Emergency surgery being performed in the wardroom of the Gato-class submarine USS Silversides while at sea, 22 Dec 1942. The procedure was performed not by a surgeon but by Pharmacists Mate 1c Thomas Moore. |
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Pickerel off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 22 Dec 1942, photo 1 of 2 | Pickerel off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 22 Dec 1942, photo 2 of 2 |
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Admiral Halsey, Rear Admiral Charles P Mason, Captain Austin K Doyle, and an unidentified captain in the captain's cabin on USS Nassau at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 23 Dec 1942 | Close-up view of a P-38G Lightning aircraft cockpit, 23 Dec 1942; note the yoke rather than stick control and the bullet proof glass panel above the instrument panel. Photo 1 of 3. |
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Close-up view of a P-38G Lightning aircraft cockpit, 23 Dec 1942; note the yoke rather than stick control and the bullet proof glass panel above the instrument panel. Photo 2 of 3. | Close-up view of a P-38G Lightning aircraft cockpit, 23 Dec 1942; note the yoke rather than stick control and the bullet proof glass panel above the instrument panel. Photo 3 of 3. |
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View of Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Dec 1942 | General view of the speakers platform of the Pentagon building during the Christmas exercise, Arlington, Virginia, United States, 24 Dec 1942 |
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Launching of submarine Cabrilla, Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 24 Dec 1942 | US servicemen and Chinese civilians at a Christmas party, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, 24 Dec 1942 |