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| Destruction on Betio after battle, Tarawa Atoll, 24 Nov 1943 | Enterprise underway during Gilberts operation, 24 Nov 1943 |
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| Firefighters extinguishing a burning F6F-3 Hellcat fighter (Lieutenant (jg) Alfred W. Magee, Jr.) after an emergency landing on USS Cowpens during the Gilbert Islands Campaign, Pacific Ocean, 24 Nov 1943 | Looking east down the airfield, Betio, Tarawa Atoll, 24 Nov 1943 |
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| Tarawa beach after American conquest, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943 | US Marine code talker on Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943 |
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| US flag on Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943 | US Marines evacuating a wounded comrade, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943 |
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| US Marines inspecting a fallen Japanese naval infantryman, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943 | Wrecks of American LVT landing craft and Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank on the invasion beach at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943 |
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| Chiang Kaishek and Song Meiling touring Cairo, Egypt, Nov 1943 | Chiang Kaishek and Song Meiling touring Cairo, Egypt, Nov 1943 |
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| United States Navy ship LST-207, staffed by Coast Guard personnel, on Kukum Beach, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 26 Nov 1943. | Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Soviet Embassy during the Tehran Conference, Iran, 29 Nov 1943, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Soviet Embassy during the Tehran Conference, Iran, 29 Nov 1943, photo 2 of 2 | Destroyed Japanese coastal battery, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, late Nov 1943 |
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| Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the Victorian Drawing Room of the British Legation in Tehran, Iran, 30 Nov 1943 in celebration of Churchill's 69th birthday | Humorous sign made by Americans seen at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943 |
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| Map noting Japanese dispositions at New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, 30 Nov 1943 | Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, Tehran, Iran, 30 Nov 1943 |
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