28,557 items in this album on 1,428 pages.
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| The dedication ceremony of B-25 bomber 'Fat Cat', Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943; she had been salvaged using parts of damaged bombers and would be used to transport food; photo 4 of 4 | Tiger I heavy tanks of the German 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich', Kursk, Russia, Jun 1943 |
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| Toroa Island, Maloeap Atoll, Marshall Islands seen through the periscope of USS Pollack, May-Jun 1943 | Troops of the German 'Großdeutschland' Division with MG42 machine gun, Russia, Jun 1943 |
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| United States Coast Guard beach patrols drill with their sentry dogs at Hilton Head, South Carolina, United States, circa 1943. | US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox inspecting WAVES officers Ensign Mary Cave (center of photograph), Ensign Margaret Campbell (speaking to Knox), and Ensign Bertha Shoves (right of photograph), accompanied by station commanding officer Captain Henry Gearing, Naval Training Station, San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1943 |
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| US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox speaking to patients at US Naval Hospital in San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1943; some of the patients had been wounded in combat at Guadalcanal | USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographer Jack Heyn reading at his bunk, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 |
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| USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographer Jack Heyn's tent at Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographer Jack Heyn, actress Una Merkel, and two 2nd Bomb Command cinematographers at Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 |
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| USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographic section, Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua, mid-1943 | USS Cabrilla running trials, Jun 1943 |
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| USS Marlin underway, Jun 1943 | USS Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10) circa mid-1943, with a TBF Avenger flying over her bow |
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| Wladyslaw Sikorski inspecting Polish troops in the Middle East, Jun 1943 | Wreck of a Me 323D Gigant aircraft, El Aouiana Airfield, Tunis, Tunisia, Jun 1943, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Wreck of a Me 323D Gigant aircraft, El Aouiana Airfield, Tunis, Tunisia, Jun 1943, photo 2 of 2 | Masaharu Homma in the Philippines, 1 Jun 1943 |
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| Prince Yi U exiting an aircraft, Philippines, 1 Jun 1943 | F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-1 being catapulted from the hangar deck catapult on the carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) off Trinidad, 3 Jun 1943. |
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