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Drayton off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 14 Apr 1942, photo 1 of 4	Drayton off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 14 Apr 1942, photo 2 of 4

Drayton off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 14 Apr 1942, photo 3 of 4	Drayton off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 14 Apr 1942, photo 4 of 4

Crew of a Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun atop the Berlin Zoo flak tower, Berlin, Germany, 16 Apr 1942; note range measuring device in foreground and radar station in background	Mahan off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Apr 1942

American airmen posing with the side machine gun of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, May 1942	Chinese troops posing with Thompson submachine guns and M3A3 light tanks, en route to Bhamo, Burma, Dec 1944

German SS troops at Kharkov, Ukraine, May 1942	Soviet brigade commissar Veselov with a machine gun crew, Russia, Apr-May 1942; note Maxim M1910 machine gun

USS Enterprise gunnery crews practice with their 20mm anti-aircraft guns off Hawaii, May 1942.	Men of 451st Battery, 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment, Royal Artillery exercising with 3.7-inch howitzers in Trawsfynydd, Wales, United Kingdom, 8 May 1942; note weather gear

B-26 Marauder with the 73rd Bomb Squadron armed with a Mark XIII aerial torpedo at Fort Randall Army Airfield, Cold Bay, Alaska, 11 May 1942	Rhodesian troops of 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps training with 2-inch mortar in North Africa, 12 May 1942, photo 1 of 2

Rhodesian troops of 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps training with 2-inch mortar in North Africa, 12 May 1942, photo 2 of 2	Forward main guns of Gleaves-class destroyer USS Aaron Ward in Gravesend Bay, New York Harbor, 15 May 1942. The guns are single-mount 5”/38 caliber dual purpose guns in enclosed turrets. Note the 5” powder canisters alongside.

BL 15 in coastal gun of the Wanstone Battery, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, England, United Kingdom, 18 May 1942, photo 1 of 2	BL 15 in coastal gun of the Wanstone Battery, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, England, United Kingdom, 18 May 1942, photo 2 of 2

Female factory worker posed with finished Sten sub-machinegun, Small Arms, Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, 26 May 1942	Troops of Japanese 13th Army operating a Type 89 grenade launcher, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, 30 May 1942