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Horst Grund with his mother Marie Elisabeth Grund by the Isar River in Landshut, southern Germany, Apr 1943	Identity card for Captain (acting Major) William Martin, Royal Marines; one of the fictitious documents created as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.

Italian BR.20 bomber recognition guide as seen in US War Department 'Recognition Pictorial Manual' publication FM 30-30, circa Apr 1943	Japanese 8-in gun on southwest point of Betio, Tarawa Atoll, circa early- to mid-1943

Japanese troops sighting an 8-in artillery, circa early- to mid-1943	Lieutenant General George Patton in North Africa, 1943

Light Carrier USS Independence in port, 1943	Marder II tank destroyer 'Kohlenklau' in Russia, spring 1943, photo 3 of 4

Marder II tank destroyer 'Kohlenklau' in Russia, spring 1943, photo 4 of 4	P-38G Lightning “Miss Virginia” after a belly landing at Fighter Strip #2, Kukum, Guadalcanal, Apr 1943. Days earlier, this plane, flown by Rex Barber, shot down the G4M bomber carrying Isoroku Yamamoto over Bougainville

Prototype T-43 medium tank, 1943	Schematic drawing of the Mark XVIII torpedo from the US Navy’s Ordnance Manual, Apr 1943.

Snapshot of “Major Martin’s” fiancée, Pam, that was part of the papers planted on his body as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942. In reality, this was an MI5 clerk named Jean Leslie.	Some of the effects included on “Major Martin’s” person as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942.

Submarine Escolar under construction at William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, Apr 1943	The corpse of Glyndŵr Michael fully dressed and outfitted as Major William Martin, Royal Marines just before being sealed in his air-tight canister as the central piece of Operation Mincemeat, London, England, Apr 1943.

Three African-American United States Marine Corps recruits running the obstacle course at Camp Lejeune of Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Apr 1943	Three P-38 Lightnings overfly the crew of a PBY-5A Catalina practicing the recovery of downed airmen, Solomons, 1942-43

Tiger I heavy tank of the German 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich' at Kharkov, Ukraine, Apr 1943, photo 1 of 2	Tiger I heavy tank of the German 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich' at Kharkov, Ukraine, Apr 1943, photo 2 of 2