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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 4 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 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 near Vyazma, Russia, 4 Mar 1943

General Dwight Eisenhower sharing a lighter moment with four US Army soldiers in Tunisia, 18 Mar 1943.	Adolf Hitler, second from right, Albert Speer, right, and others, at the Rügenwalde testing grounds in Pomerania (now Darłowo, Poland) on 19 Mar 1943 to see the giant 800mm railway gun “Dora,” sister gun to the “Gustav.”

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