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Rear smokestack of USS Iowa at work during shakedown cruise on the east coast of the United States, May 1943; note quad Bofors mount in foreground	Soviet Baltic Fleet sailors with orphan Lyusya, Leningrad, Russia, May 1943

Jeep, WC-4 truck, and 37 mm Gun M3 of US 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Camp Carson, Colorado, United States, 1 May 1943	Soviet A-19 field gun being towed by a tractor in the village of Izvekova, Russia, 1 Mar 1943; note Kazan Church in background

Bob Feller posing before a 40mm Bofors quad mount aboard a ship, possibly USS Alabama, 3 May 1943	A 2-inch mortar being fired from a Universal Carrier in Britain, 10 May 1943

American troops at Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, 11 May 1943	Sailors cleaning a 5-inch gun barrel aboard USS Nicholas following action on 13 May 1943.

US Army anti-aircraft gun crew manning their 3-inch M3 AA gun at New Fighter Strip, Dobodura, New Guinea, 17 May 1943	Camouflaged German 2 cm Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun mounted atop a SdKfz. 7 half-track vehicle, immediately prior to Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, photo 1 of 2

Camouflaged German 2 cm Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun mounted atop a SdKfz. 7 half-track vehicle, immediately prior to Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, photo 2 of 2	German soldier of Großdeutschland Division near Achtyrka, Ukraine, Jun 1943; note Kar98k rifle with grenade launcher

Knight's Cross winner Hauptfeldwebel Josef Niemitz posing with his anti-aircraft gun crew in the Soviet Union, Jun-Jul 1943	Troops of the German 'Großdeutschland' Division with MG42 machine gun, Russia, Jun 1943

US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft dropping a Mk XIII torpedo over Saratoga Passage, Washington, United States, 4 Jun 1943. Note the torpedo's wooden tail shroud.	37 mm Gun M3 mounted aboard a M6 Gun Motor Carriage, with additional .50 cal machine gun attached, 3 miles west of Watertown, Tennessee, United States, 6 Jun 1943

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.	British aerial reconnaissance photograph of V-2 rockets at Peenemünde Test Stands I and VII, Germany, 12 Jun 1943

US Army gun crew preparing to fire a 37mm sub-caliber mounted on a 75mm field howitzer during range practice, Sanskeid Range, Iceland, 20 Jun 1943; note M8 carriage	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