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USS Ancon (background), HM LST-404, and other ships off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	USS Ancon off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943

View at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 2	View at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 2

View of Hotel Campo Imperatore and a landed German DFS 230 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	German troops and R75 motorcycle deployed in support of the Gran Sasso raid to free Benito Mussolini, Abruzzo, Italy, 13 Sep 1943

US Army infantrymen fighting in the jungles of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 13 Sep 1943	LCT-222 landed a jeep onto Salerno beach, Italy, Sep 1943; note LST-1 in background

LST-1 landing troops onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	LST-1 landing US Army jeeps onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943

LST-1 landing US Army trucks and field guns onto a beach near Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943	With LST-1 in background, US Army Engineers hauled a roll of wire mesh into position to make a beach roadway, Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943

Japanese ship aground at Kiska harbor, Aleutian islands, US Territory of Alaska, 18 Sep 1943	African-American men of US 34th Construction Battalion constructing prefabricated steel warehouse at Halavo Seaplane Base, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, 19 Sep 1943

German PaK 40 gun near Salerno, Italy, late Sep 1943	A company of African American soldiers of the US Army working at a makeshift office located at an ancient Neptune temple in Italy, 22 Sep 1943

Private Paul Oglesby of US 30th Infantry Regiment standing before an altar in a damaged Catholic Church at Acerno, Italy, 23 Sep 1943	African-American sailors loading munitions aboard ships at Port Chicago, California, United States, 1943-44.

B-24 Liberator bomber raiding the Japanese airfields at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in preparation of the American invasion, Oct 1943	Men of Battery F, 70th Coast Artillery of the US Army manning a 37-mm anti-aircraft gun at Wickham Anchorage, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 1943