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TBF-1 Avengers returning to USS Lexington (Essex-class) during the Gilberts campaign, Nov 1943.	US troops boarding landing barges at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Nov 1943

USS Lexington (Essex-class) steaming in the Pacific en route strikes against Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Nov 1943	USS New Mexico underway, Nov 1943; note Measure 21 camouflage

USS North Carolina underway during the Gilbert Islands operation, Nov 1943	USS Pennsylvania and USS New Mexico, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Nov 1943

View aboard USS Alabama, 1943	View from the forward fire control tower of USS Iowa, looking aft, off the east coast of the United States, 1943; note USS Lexington in background

View of the flight deck of USS Saratoga, Solomon Islands, Nov 1943	View of USS Saratoga's superstructure from a descended elevator, Nov 1943

LCVP landing craft circling off Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands while awaiting orders, 1 Nov 1943; note 20mm Oerlikon AA gun; photographed from aboard APA-13 USS American Legion	Men of US 3rd Marine Division disembarking onto the invasion beach at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1 Nov 1943

USS Columbia and other warships off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1-2 Nov 1943; note crashed Japanese aircraft ahead of USS Columbia	USS Columbia bombarding Japanese positions on Bougainville, Solomon islands, 1 Nov 1943

A bomb exploding off port quarter of a Japanese cargo ship in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943; note Haguro in center distance and USAAF 3rd Bomb Group B-25 bomber in lower left; photo 1 of 2	A bomb exploding off port quarter of a Japanese cargo ship in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943; note Haguro in center distance and USAAF 3rd Bomb Group B-25 bomber in lower left; photo 1 of 2

Haguro under air attack by USAAF 3rd Bomb Group, Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943	Montpelier firing her guns during the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, night of 1-2 Nov 1943

USAAF 3rd Bomb Group aircraft attacking Haguro and other ships in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943, photo 1 of 2	USAAF 3rd Bomb Group aircraft attacking Haguro and other ships in Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain, 2 Nov 1943, photo 2 of 2