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US Marines resting in the field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Aug-Dec 1942; note Springfield M1903 rifles and a Browning Automatic Rifle gunner on far right	US Marines resting, Guadalcanal, Aug-Sep 1942

US warships firing at Japanese aircraft, Guadalcanal, 1942	USMC Map 104 showing the northern coast of Guadalcanal in the Lunga area

Wrecked Japanese landing craft, Gavutu Beach, Guadalcanal, Aug-Sep 1942	Boats arriving at Leningrad, Russia via Lake Ladoga, bringing food and other supplies, 1 Sep 1942

Soviet soldier throwing a grenade near Stalingrad, Russia, 1 Sep 1942	Supplies of food being delivered to Leningrad, Russia over Lake Ladoga, 1 Sep 1942

Soviet troops fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, 2 Sep 1942	Upward bulge in the flight deck of USS Enterprise as the result of a bomb exploding below decks. The damage occurred in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 Aug 1942 but the photo was taken 2 Sep 1942 at Tongatabu, Tonga Islands. Note the cruiser USS San Juan.

Japanese troops arriving on Guadalcanal, circa early Sep 1942; note Savo Island in background	British Army Major Vladimir Peniakoff posing with a Jeep en route to Barce, Libya, early Sep 1942; note Vickers K twin machine gun

Machinist Donald Runyon posing at the tail of his Wildcat during the Guadalcanal campaign, 10 Sep 1942	Japanese-American children playing with a scale model of their home at the Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California, United States, 11 Sep 1942

A German bomb detonating underwater near HMS Ashanti, HMS Wheatland, and HMS Eskimo which were escorting Allied convoy PQ-18, Sep 1942	Smoke rising from ammunition ship Mary Luckenbach of Allied convoy PQ-18, 13 Sep 1942; seen from flight deck of carrier, possibly HMS Avenger

Hugh Dowding with an aide and several British fighter pilots outside the Air Ministry headquarters at the Adastral House (now Television House), London, England, United Kingdom, 14 Sep 1942	Destroyer O'Brien torpedoed by submarine while Wasp burned in background, 15 Sep 1942

German U-156 with its decks crowded with survivors from the British RMS Laconia prior to the submarine being attacked by an American bomber, Sep 15, 1942.	U-156 and U-507 with survivors of RMS Laconia in the Atlantic Ocean, 15 Sep 1942