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Higgins 78-foot PT Boat photographed 26 Jan 1943 by Higgins Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana before delivery to the US Navy. This boat went on to serve as PT-200 and spent her career as a training boat. Photo 5 of 6	Higgins 78-foot PT Boat photographed 26 Jan 1943 by Higgins Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana before delivery to the US Navy. This boat went on to serve as PT-200 and spent her career as a training boat. Photo 6 of 6

40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns aboard light cruiser Montpelier, circa 1943	Schematic taken from the Feb 1943 Operating Instructions for 5-inch/38 caliber Gun Crews showing the assignments and positions of the 15-man gun crew in a singly mounted 5”/38 gun turret.

Troops of the German 'Großdeutschland' Division with 7.5 cm le.IG 18 field gun in a snowy field in Russia, Feb-Mar 1943	Russian soldiers firing from a rooftop in Stalingrad, Russia, 2 Feb 1943

An abandoned German 5 cm PaK 38 anti-tank gun in North Africa, 9 Feb 1943	Corporal Larry Corletti, Private Murril Chapman, and Private Louis Robles practicing abandoning a M3 medium tank at Camp Polk, Louisiana, United States, 12 Feb 1943

British PIAT team on exercise at a firing range in Tunisia, 19 Feb 1943	Bird's-eye view of the amidships section of USS Iowa, circa Feb-Mar 1943

German 2 cm FlaK 30 gun at Marseille, France, Feb-Mar 1943; note transport Président Dal Piaz in background	Italian troops on an AS 42 armored car equipped with Breda Model 35 anti-aircraft gun, North Africa, Mar 1943

SS Panzergrenadier troops of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler in Kharkov, Ukraine, Mar 1943	Troops of Soviet 144th Division on the move northwest of Vyazma, Russia, 1 Mar 1943; note ZiS-3 field gun barely visible, being towed by the horses

Soviet anti-tank gunners with PTRD-41 rifles marching in Kalinin Oblast (now Tver Oblast), Russia toward Vyazma, 4 Mar 1943	USS Essex on her shakedown cruise, 20 Mar 1943, with F6F aircraft in foreground and SBD in the back

German 7.5 cm PaK 40 camouflaged in snowy terrain, Russia, 21 Mar 1943	TBF-1 Avengers from the Carrier USS Essex dropping a practice torpedo from 150-200 feet, Gulf of Paria, Trinidad, 30 Mar 1943. Note the porpoising early Mark XIII torpedo.

155 mm Howitzer Carriage M1917 or M1918 howitzer and crew in exercise, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States, Apr 1943	African-American US Marine Corps Corporal Arvin Lou Ghazlo giving judo instructions to Private Ernest C. Jones, Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Apr 1943; note M1 Garand rifle