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Makeshift defensive structure built by US Marines due to barbed wire shortage, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942	Russian city of Stalingrad during the namesake battle, Oct 1942

Russian soldier Vasily Zaytsev posing with his Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942	Smoke rising from a crashed Japanese aircraft, off Guadalcanal, late 1942; photo taken from transport Crescent City

Smoke rising from various districts of Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942, photo 3 of 5	Soviet naval infantrymen landing on the banks of the Volga River, Stalingrad, Russia, 1942

Soviet soldiers on exercise, Leningrad, Russia, Oct 1942	Soviet troops fighting in the ruins of the factory 'Red October', Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942; note PPSh-41 submachine guns, and a soldier who had just been shot

Soviet troops in Stalingrad ruins awaiting a German attack, southern Russia, 1942	Street fighting in Stalingrad, Russia, circa Sep 1942-Jan 1943

Tenaru River, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942	US Army Jeeps driving up Wright Road toward the area of the Japanese Gifu strongpoint on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942.

US Marine aviators Major John Smith, Major Robert Galer, and Captain Marion Carl having just received Navy Cross medals, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942	US Marine Browning M1917 machine gun position over a Matanikao River crossing, Guadalcanal, Sep-Oct 1942

US Marines crossing Lunga River, Guadalcanal, late 1942	US Marines evacuating a wounded comrade, near Kokumbona River, Guadalcanal, Sep-Oct 1942

View of northern Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942	Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber over Stalingrad, Russia, 2 Oct 1942

Smoke rising after German aerial bombardment, Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942	Smoke rising from various districts of Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942, photo 1 of 5