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L-5 Sentinel “Bouncing Betsy II” of the 25th Liaison Squadron in New Guinea. Sgt pilots of the “Guinea Short Line” rescued downed fliers and guided fighters to concealed jungle targets. SSGT Jim Nichols standing by the pilot’s door	LCVPs disembarking US Marines during an amphibious assault exercise in US Territory of Alaska, 1942-1943

Major Gregory Weissenberger, Commanding Officer of Marine Fighting Squadron 213, the “Hellhawks,” getting into his F4U-1 Corsair with the engine running, Guadalcanal, Solomons, 1943.	Map depicting the transportation routes in the China-Burma-India theater, 1942-1943

Map noting the Solomon Islands situation in 1943	Mori Nakashima feeding chickens, Manzanar Relocation Center for Japanese-Americans, Owens Valley, California, United States, 1943

Panoramic view of Stalingrad, Russia from the east bank of the Volga River during the siege, 19 Aug 1942-2 Feb 1943	Parafrag bombs falling in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 1940s

Pavlov's House, Stalingrad, Russia, 1943; note Gergardt Mill building in background	Portrait of British Naval Intelligence officer Lt Cdr Ewen Montagu RNVR, one of the principal architects of Operation Mincemeat, 1943.

Portrait of Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, 1943-1944	Portrait of Matome Ugaki, 1940s

Portraits of Japanese-American internees at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943	RAF and WAAF personnel working in the wooden receiver hut at RAF Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, date unknown

RAF Flight Lieutenant Charles Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), seconded to the British Security Service MI5 and one of the principal architects of Operation Mincemeat, circa 1943.	Ruins of a building in Stalingrad, Russia, 1940s

Russian factory workers with small arms in Stalingrad, Russia, 1942-1943	Schematic of a German Wetter-Funkgerät Land (Weather Radio for Land) or WFL manufactured by the Siemens-Schuckert corporation. On 22 Oct 1943, WFL #26 was deployed by U-537 as Weather Station Kurt on the Labrador coast

Scuttled French battleship Provence and seaplane tender Commandant Teste, Toulon, France, circa late 1942 or early 1943	Scuttled French battleship Strasbourg, Toulon, France, circa late 1942 or early 1943