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View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (bottom, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942, photo 1 of 3	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (bottom, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942, photo 2 of 3

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (bottom, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942, photo 3 of 3	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (center, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (top right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (top center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note heavy cruiser Tone underway at right edge of the photograph, photo 1 of 2

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (center, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (top right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (top center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note heavy cruiser Tone underway at right edge of the photograph, photo 2 of 2	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (just out of view, wake seen at bottom) and Tokitsukaze (bottom right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (bottom center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note a stick of five falling bombs at top right and another stick of four falling bombs at center

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese heavy cruiser Tone, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	A German soldier near Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942

A German truck driving through the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, with columns of smoke visible in background, Sep 1942	Aerial view of Stalingrad from a German bomber, Russia, Sep 1942

American photograph of a captured Japanese ammunition box with ammunition strips for the Type 92 machine gun, Guadalcanal, 1942.	Australian Army engineers with a captured Daihatsu-class landing craft, Milne Bay, Sep 1942

Bombs being brought to a TBF Avenger of United States Navy Torpedo Squadron VT-11 flying from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942. Note the pierced steel Marsden matting.	British S-class submarine HMS Seraph, probably in Scotland, Aug-Sep 1942. In Apr 1943, Seraph transported “Major Martin” from Britain to the Spanish coast as part of Operation Mincemeat.

Captured Japanese Type 92 Battalion Gun on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, mid-1942	Civilian in a camel-drawn cart in southern Russia, Aug-Sep 1942

Damaged buildings in Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942	Fires burning at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug-Oct 1942

German horse-drawn supply convoy taking a break in a field, southern Russia, Aug-Sep 1942	German soldier taking a break at the steps in front of a house, near Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942