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Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma of Japanese 14th Army arriving at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines, 24 Dec 1941	Wrecked Wildcats of VMF-211 collected by Japanese, Wake, circa late Dec 1941

Manila, Philippines was declared an open city on 26 Dec 1941 to prevent unnecessary destruction	Takashi Sakai and Masaichi Niimi leading Japanese troops on a march on Queen's Road, Hong Kong, 26 Dec 1941, photo 1 of 2

Takashi Sakai and Masaichi Niimi leading Japanese troops on a march on Queen's Road, Hong Kong, 26 Dec 1941, photo 2 of 2	Soviet mortar position near Moscow, Russia, 27 Dec 1941

Surrendered German troops near Moscow, Russia, 27 Dec 1941	Soviet Army engineers preparing to build a bridge, near Naro-Fominsk, Russia, 28 Dec 1941

Chan Chak with British and Chinese personnel who had recently escaped from Hong Kong, Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China, 29 Dec 1941	A British soldier wounded during fighting in Malaya was being put onto an ambulance in Singapore, circa Dec 1941 to Jan 1942

Japanese troops in Hong Kong, late Dec 1941	Japanese Type A-class midget submarine I-22tou which was sunk by destroyer Monaghan inside Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States during the Japanese attack, Dec 1941

Map showing Japanese offensives in Dec 1941	Sketch of the explosion on Hood by Royal Navy Captain J. C. Leach for the 2nd Board of Enquiry, 1941

Soviet tank crew raising a flag on a KV-1 heavy tank, Moscow, Russia, 31 Dec 1941	Lieutenant General Bernard Freyberg, commanding officer of British forces on Crete, Greece, gazing over the parapet of his dug out in the direction of the German line, late May 1941

A camouflaged PzKpfw III command tank, approximately 45km west of Gazala, Libya, circa 1941-1942	A Japanese Army soldier tending graves of fellow Japanese soldiers who were lost during the invasion, Malaya, circa Dec 1941-Feb 1942

Aircraft detection equipment, Leningrad, Russia, 1942	Allied Theater commander Gen Joseph Stilwell and Chinese Gen Sun Li-jen, Burma (now Myanmar), 1942