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Close-up view of USS North Carolina's superstructure while the ship was at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, Feb 1942; note 20mm Oerlikon cannon	Cruiser Juneau coming alongside a pier at the New York Navy Yard in Feb 1942 prior to her commissioning. Note her modified Measure 12 paint scheme.

German SdKfz. 7 half-track vehicle towing 8.8 cm FlaK gun, North Africa, Feb 1942	Men of USAAF 3rd Bomb Group training, Charters Towers, Australia, early 1942; note WW1-era helmets and Enfield rifles

Soviet 203 mm Howitzer M1931 (B-4) field gun and crew, Moscow Oblast, Russia, early 1942	Cruiser Juneau in New York Harbor, United States, 11 Feb 1942. Photo 1 of 3.

Cruiser Juneau in New York Harbor, United States, 11 Feb 1942. Photo 2 of 3.	Cruiser Juneau in New York Harbor, United States, 11 Feb 1942. Photo 3 of 3.

Japanese Army paratroopers retrieving gear after a successful jump near Palembang, Dutch East Indies, 13 Feb 1942	Japanese Type 99 machine gun crew of Lieutenant Hajime Asai's platoon demonstrating its anti-strafing set up, 15 Feb 1942

American soldier and a 16 in M1919 coastal artillery gun, Fort Story, Virginia, United States, Mar 1942	Humber Light Reconnaissance Cars Mk II of 29th Independent Squadron of British Reconnaissance Corps at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, Mar 1942

Machine gun crew of Chinese 185th Division with ZB vz. 26 light machine gun, China, Mar 1942	PBY-5A Catalina patrol plane dropping a Mark XIII aerial torpedo during the torpedo’s testing period, 1942

Japanese Fubuki-class destroyer Inazuma launching a Type 93 torpedo in the Second Battle of the Java Sea, 1 Mar 1942.	Soviet 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft guns at the Field of Mars, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Mar 1942

Soviet troops patrolling Pulkovo Heights, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Mar 1942	Broadside view of destroyer USS Cummings off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 4 Mar 1942.

Cummings at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 4 Mar 1942, photo 2 of 2	Humber Light Reconnaissance Cars Mk II of 29th Independent Squadron of British Reconnaissance Corps at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, 5 Mar 1942, photo 1 of 2