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British cruiser HMS Trinidad escorting an Allied Arctic convoy, seen from HMS Fury, 1942	British destroyer Kelvin's quadruple QF 2-pounder Mk.VII anti-aircraft mounting as seen during the Malta Campaign, 1940s

Captured German photograph showing civilians being executed at the Babi Yar ravine, Kyiv, Ukraine, late 1941 to 1942	Chaim Rumkowski tasting soup made at a public kitchen in the Lódz ghetto, Poland, 1939-1944

Civilians of Leningrad fetching water from a broken water pipe, Russia, Dec 1941-Jan 1942	French resistance fighters in the Huelgoat, France, circa 1940s

G3M bombers dropping bombs on Chongqing, China, circa 1940s	German infantry riding on a Panzerkampfwagen 39H 735(f) tank in the Balkan Peninsula, 1941-1942

German soldier executing Ukranian mother and child, Ivanhorod, Vinnytsia Oblast (now Cherkasy Oblast), Ukraine, 1942	Japanese attacking across a railroad track somewhere in Malaya, circa Dec 1941-Feb 1942

Japanese troops advancing on bicycles, Malaya, circa Dec 1941-Feb 1942	Japanese troops disarming captured British soldier, Malaya, circa Dec 1941-Feb 1942

Japanese Type 95 and Type 97 tanks in a town in Malaya, circa Dec 1941-Feb 1942	Leningrad building damaged by German artillery, Russia, Dec 1941-Jan 1942

Map noting Japanese objectives in the opening stages of the Pacific War in late 1941 to early 1942	Map of eastern India and northern Burma showing Japanese occupation and Allied supply routes in 1942. Note Burma Road, The Hump route, and the track of the future Ledo Road that opened in 1945.

Maps depicting British dispositions in Malaya and Singapore on 7 Dec 1941 and the Japanese advance from Dec 1941 to Jan 1942	Mauthausen Concentration Camp prisoners working in the quarry, Austria, date unknown

Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria, date unknown	Painting 'Sea Battle off Malaya' by Kanichi Nakamura, 1942