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Destroyed M3A1 light tank, Buna, Australian Papua, mid-1943	Lidice, Czechoslovakia Jun 1943. What had been a village street lined with peasant homes as it appeared a year after the destruction.

United States Marine Corps map of the New Georgia Group in the Solomon Islands, Mar 1943.	The state funeral of Isoroku Yamamoto, Tokyo, Japan, 5 Jun 1943, photo 1 of 2

82nd Airborne load a 75mm howitzer into a CG-4A Troop Glider during training at Oujda, French Morocco, North Africa a month before the Sicily invasion, Jun 11 1943.	During rehearsals for the New Georgia operation, troops climb down nets hung over the side of attack transport USS McCawley to board LCVP landing craft at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 14 Jun 1943

Headquarters of Commander, Air, South Pacific on Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 16 Jun 1943, with USMC MGen Ralph Mitchell, USMC MGen Holland Smith, Adm Chester Nimitz, VAdm Aubrey Fitch, and Adm William Halsey in front.	Lance Sergeant A Haywood, Private C Norman and Private H Maw of 1st Battalion, The British Duke of Wellington's Regiment advancing past a burning fuel store on Pantelleria, 17 Jun 1943

Three soldiers manning US Army 90th Coast Artillery's radar, Casablanca, French Morocco, 19 Jun 1943; note the three men were African-American	German SdKfz. 9 halftrack vehicle towing a Panzer VI Tiger I heavy tank in preparation for Operation Zitadelle, near Kursk, Russia, Jun 1943

Beaufighter Mk VIF aircraft of No. 272 Squadron RAF Coastal Command at Takali airfield, Malta, 27 Jun 1943	Americans sought cover on the beach of Rendova Island, 30 Jun 1943

Map depicting Operation Cartwheel, 30 Jun 1943 to early 1944	155mm Gun M1 field guns of Battery A of USMC 9th Defense Battalion being loaded onto a LCT for transport to Piru Plantation, Tambusolo Island, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943

155mm Gun M1 of the US Marine Corps being towed on the island of Rendova, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	A German tank crew taking a break near their Tiger I heavy tank, near Kursk, Russia, summer 1943

A partially camouflaged Tiger I heavy tank, Kursk, Russia, summer 1943	A PT boat gunner at his 50-cal machine gun, New Guinea, Jul 1943

Aerial view of the Munda Point Airfield in New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, mid-1943	Aerial view of the Segi Point Airfield at the southeastern tip of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands; the airfield was constructed by US Navy 47th Construction Battalion in mid-1943