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| Rear smokestack of USS Iowa at work during shakedown cruise on the east coast of the United States, May 1943; note quad Bofors mount in foreground | Royal Air Force Fortress IIA of Coastal Command 220 Squadron based at Benbecula, Scotland flying over the islands of the Hebrides west of Scotland, May 1943. |
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| Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox greeting officers aboard the carrier USS Saratoga, circa 1943. | Soviet Baltic Fleet sailors with orphan Lyusya, Leningrad, Russia, May 1943 |
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| SS personnel guarding rounded-up Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, Apr-May 1943 | SS troops guarding suspected Jewish resistance fighters, Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943 |
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| SS troops observing the block of Nowolipie Street between Smocza and Karmelicka Streets burning, Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943 | SS troops rounding up Jews near the intersection of Nowolipie Street and Smocza Street, Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943 |
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| SS troops rounding up suspected Jewish resistance fighters, near intersection of Nowolipie Street and Smocza Street, Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943 | SS troops rounding up suspected Jewish resistance fighters, near intersection of Nowolipie Street and Smocza Street, Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943 |
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| Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California, United States, circa 1943. | Ukranian troops of a SS auxiliary unit looking at executed Jews in Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943 |
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| United States Army troops enter Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943. | United States Coast Guard PBY-5A Catalina with Patrol-Bombing Squadron 6 on the ramp at Bluie West One air strip, Narsarssuak, Greenland (now Narsarsuaq), 1943. |
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| US Marines lining up for physical drills on USS Cowpens' flight deck, probably in the Pacific Ocean while en route to US Territory of Hawaii, circa mid-1943; note inflatable life belts, SK radar antenna mounted on the stub mast between the stacks, and F6F, SBD, and TBM aircraft | US Marines on parade on the occasion of USMC's first anniversary of arrival at Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, May 1943 |
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| USS Essex steaming from Norfolk, Virginia, United States, to Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, May 1943 | Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, right, boards a PBY-5A on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, after an inspection visit, May 1943. The others are USMC BGen Francis Mulcahy, USN RAdm Charles Mason, and Army MGen Alexander Patch. |
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| Wildcat fighters flying in formation, circa mid-1943 | Wing of a Ju 52/3m aircraft (foreground), wreck of a Me 323 Gigant aircraft (center), damaged Hs 129B aircraft (behind Me 323), and damaged Fw 190A-4 aircraft (right edge of background) at El Aouiana Airfield, Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943 |
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