28,557 items in this album on 1,428 pages.
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| 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. | US Navy K-class airship K-111 conducting exercises with Escort Carrier USS Rudyerd Bay off San Diego, California, United States, 30 Mar 1943. |
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| 155 mm Howitzer Carriage M1917 or M1918 howitzer and crew in exercise, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, United States, Apr 1943 | A B-18 bomber of the USAAF 27th Bomb Group based out of Eagle Farm Aerodrome, Brisbane, Australia in flight, Feb-Jun 1943 |
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| A platoon of African-American US Marine Corps recruits listening to drill instructor Sergeant Gilbert Hubert Johnson, Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Apr 1943 | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Admiral Jinichi Kusaka at Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, Apr 1943 |
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| Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto and Matome Ugaki, Rabaul, New Britain, 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 |
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| American officers at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa 1943; among them were Brigadier General A. F. Howard, Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson, Major General Charles D. Barrett, and Major General Robert S. Beighter | Arthur Coningham, Carl Spaatz, Arthur Tedder, and Laurence Kuter, Apr 1943 |
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| B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Barber Bob' of 93rd Bomber Group, US 328th Bomber Squadron based on RAF Hardwick, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Feb-May 1943 | Beaufighter aircraft of No. 252 Squadron RAF at Magrun Landing Ground, Libya, Apr 1943 |
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| British aerial reconnaissance photograph of Peenemünde, Germany, Apr 1943 | Consolidated Liberator Mark IIIA of RAF No. 224 Squadron returning to Beaulieu, Hampshire, United Kingdom, following a mission to escort a North African convoy, circa 1943. |
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| Curtiss C-46 Commando in flight, early 1943, probably over the United States. | Curtiss SB2C Helldiver recognition page from a joint Army-Navy recognition manual, Apr 1943. |
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| Diagram of torpedo damage to USS New Orleans sustained in the Battle of Tassafaronga that resulted in 150 feet of her bow being blown off. | Elco 80-foot motor torpedo boat simultaneously launching two practice torpedoes during a training exercise in United States waters, 1942-44. |
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| False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943. | Female African-American shipyard worker Anna Bland working on Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver at Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, Apr 1943 |
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