7,734 items in this album on 387 pages.
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| Wasp (Wasp-class) burning and listing after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 in the South Pacific, 15 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2. | Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, commander of Task Force 61 in support of the Guadalcanal landings, aboard his flagship USS Saratoga, 17 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2. |
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| A Russian soldier, sailor, and a political officer in Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Sep 1943 | Damaged buildings in southern Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Sep 1942, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Damaged buildings in southern Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Sep 1942, photo 2 of 2 | German troops in a foxhole covered by a wrecked T-34 tank, Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Sep 1942 |
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| Admiral Chester Nimitz awarding Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson a gold star to his Navy Cross medal, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 30 Sep 1942 | Smoke rising from various districts of Stalingrad, Russia, 30 Sep 1942 |
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| 155 mm Howitzer Carriage M1918 gun of US 11th Marine Regiment on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug-Dec 1942 | A temporary bridge built with amphibian tractors as floats, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942 |
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| Australian Brigadier Charles Spry pointing out locations of heavy fighting to Australian LtGen Edmund Herring, American Gen Douglas MacArthur, and Australian MajGen Arthur Allen, New Guinea, Oct 1942 | Battered rail station, Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942 |
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| Buildings in the Russian city of Stalingrad burning after German aerial bombing, Oct 1942 | Burying the dead at Volkovo Cemetery, Leningrad, Russia, Oct 1942 |
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| Captured Japanese ice plant, Guadalcanal, late 1942 | Commander Arnold True, commanding officer of USS Hammann during Battle of Midway, receiving Navy Cross award from William Halsey, Oct 1942 |
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| Damaged buildings in Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942 | Destroyed building, Guadalcanal, late 1942 |
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| Destroyed tanks of Japanese 1st Independent Tank Company at the mouth of the Matanikau River, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Oct 1942, photo 1 of 2 | Destroyed tanks of Japanese 1st Independent Tank Company at the mouth of the Matanikau River, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Oct 1942, photo 2 of 2 |
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