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Kinkaid aboard Enterprise, 22 Jul 1942	Adolf Hitler with Colonel Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller and other officers at the Werwolf headquarters, Vinnytsia, Ukraine, 25 Jul 1942

Chinese Major General Zhu Shiming awarding Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington DC, United States, 25 Jul 1942	Hopkins, Churchill, King, Winant, and others at Painted Hall, Greenwich Naval College, Greenwich, England, United Kingdom, 25 Jul 1942

Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations; Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Staff to the President; and General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 28 Jul 1942.	American officers LtCol Richard H Carmichael, 19th Bomb Group CO, MGen George C Kenney, 5th Air Force CO, and BGen Kenneth N Walker, V Bombing Command CO at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942

Erwin Rommel and Albert Kesselring in conversation, North Africa, Aug-Sep 1942	Erwin Rommel awarding the Iron Cross to a man under his command, North Africa, Aug 1942

German Panzer I tank on parade through Paris, France, Aug 1942; note Field Marshal Rundstedt in background	Hans-Joachim Marseille and another pilot posing next to a Kübelwagen vehicle, Libya, summer 1942

Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang greeting Chiang Kaishek, Xining, Qinghai, China, Aug 1942	Main Street and barrack huts at German prisoner of war camp Stalag IX-A at Ziegenhain, Germany. Photo was taken in 1942 from the camp’s main watch tower.

Major General Alexander Vandegrift at a field desk on Guadalcanal, circa Aug-Dec 1942	Major General George C. Kenney, commander of US 5th Air Force, and Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, commander of US V Bombing Command at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942

Rommel in SdKfz. 250/3 'Greif' armored vehicle in North Africa, Aug-Sep 1942	Rommel studying a map with his staff officers, North Africa, Aug 1942

The tail of Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109 fighter showing 101 kills, circa Aug 1942	US Navy Lt Commander John D. Bulkeley receives the Medal of Honor from President Franklin Roosevelt, 4 Aug 1942. The medal was for his actions as a PT Boat Squadron commander in the Philippines, Dec 1941-Apr 1942

Winston Churchill, Leslie Morshead, Claude Auchinleck, and W. H. C. Ramsden (background) at 9th Australian Division headquarters, El Alamein, Egypt, 5 Aug 1942	Saburo Sakai being helped out of his aircraft after he made a 4+ hour flight to base with a serious injuries, Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942