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HMS Eagle listing in the Mediterranean Sea, 11 Aug 1942	HMS Rodney (left), HMS Manchester (right), and other ships of the Operation Pedestal convoy under air attack while sailing for Malta, 11 Aug 1942

Vyacheslav Molotov, W. Averell Harriman, and Winston Churchill, Moscow, Russia, 12 Aug 1942	Crew of HMS Dianthus loading a Mk VII depth charge into a Mk IV depth charge thrower, 14 Aug 1942

Men of US 2nd Marine Division wading through shallow water, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	Oil tanker Ohio in the Grand Harbour of Malta, 15 Aug 1942

Map of the Makin Raid, Makin Island, 17 Aug 1942	Priyut 11 station on Mount Elbrus, Russia, circa 17 Aug 1942; photograph taken by a German soldier

A British DB-7B Boston Mk III bomber of RAF No. 88 Squadron over Dieppe Harbour, France, 19 Aug 1942	British Churchill tanks and landing craft burning on the Dieppe beach, France, 19 Aug 1942

British Daimler Scout Car 'Hound' abandoned on the beach after the failed raid on Dieppe, France, Aug 1942	German 24th Panzer Division en route to Stalingrad, Russia, circa Aug 1942

Remains of a Canadian soldier on the beach after the failed raid on Dieppe, France, Aug 1942; note Daimler Scout Car and Churchill tank in background	US 1st Marine Division staff at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942

US Marine Colonel Frank Goettge with captured Japanese currency, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	German troops inspecting a British Daimler Scout Car captured during the failed raid on Dieppe, France, late Aug 1942

USS Saratoga (left), USS Atlanta (right), and other warships off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 21 Aug 1942	Akimoto Tamotsu and Koitabashi Hiroshi flying their D3A carrier dive bomber (foreground) returning to carrier Shokaku after attacking USS Enterprise during Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942

Bomb dropped by Japanese pilot Kazumi Horie exploding on the flight deck of USS Enterprise during Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (left, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942