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| British Royal Navy Home Fleet warships in Norwegian waters, date unknown; ships in background included HMS Duke of York, HMS Formidable, and HMS Indefatigable | British ships Vienna (center), Carlisle (behind Vienna), Dido (behind Carlisle), Ashanti (right), Oakley (behind Ashanti), Maidstone (behind Oakley), and Formidable (rear) at Algiers, Algeria, circa 1942-1943 |
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| British submarine Graph, formerly German submarine U-570, 1943 | British workers preparing Spitfire Vb fighters destined for the Soviet Union, Abadan Airport, Iran, early 1943 |
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| BT-13 in flight, circa mid 1942 to Jun 1943 | Building 54 at the Tiburon Naval Net Depot, Tiburon, California, United States, 1943. |
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| Building a model of the Tirpitz on board the Tirpitz | Burke (right center) with his US Navy Destroyer Squadron 23 captains, Solomon Islands, 1943 |
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| BV 222 Wiking aircraft V1 in flight, 1940s | Byelorussian guerillas posing in a forest, circa 1943; note PPD-40 submachine gun, Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifle, and German bayonet |
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| C-46 Commando being fueled for flight 'over the hump' from Chabua, India to Kunming, China, 1943. Note 3 blade props of early C-46 models | C-46A aircraft in flight over mountainous terrain, 1943 |
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| C-54 Skymaster aircraft in flight in the United States, circa 1943 | C.205 aircraft resting at an airfield, Italy, 1942-1943 |
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| Canadian Chevrolet CMP C-60L 3-ton truck with early style cab design outside Wadi Sora in the Sahara Desert in southwestern Egypt, 1942-43. | Captain Arleigh Burke (third from right) aboard SS President Monroe en route to the South Pacific, 1943 |
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| Captain Ashcraft of the S-1 section of US Army 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, 1940s | Captain Burke onboard a ship, during WW2 |
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| Captain Helfrich and members of receiving office of the US Army Medical Detachment 1340, Fiji, 1942-1944 | Captain John Collins on the day that he handed over control of HMAS Shropshire to the Royal Australian Navy, 1943 |
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