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| US Navy TDN-1 drone test from the decks of the training carrier USS Sable while steaming in reverse in Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, United States, 10 Aug 1943. This particular test was unsuccessful. Photo 2 of 4. | US Navy TDN-1 drone test from the decks of the training carrier USS Sable while steaming in reverse in Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, United States, 10 Aug 1943. This particular test was unsuccessful. Photo 3 of 4. |
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| US Navy TDN-1 drone test from the decks of the training carrier USS Sable while steaming in reverse in Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, United States, 10 Aug 1943. This particular test was unsuccessful. Photo 4 of 4. | USS Sable at anchor in West Grand Traverse Bay, off Traverse City, Michigan, United States, 10 Aug 1943; note two TDN-1 assault drone on the flight deck |
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| View of helmsman's wheel, speaking tubes, binnacle, and other equipment inside the pilothouse of destroyer Kikuzuki while the ship was being salvaged, Ghovana Bay, Florida Islands (Nggela Islands), 10 Aug 1943 | Aerial view of Bethlehem San Francisco Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, 11 Aug 1943, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Aerial view of Bethlehem San Francisco Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, 11 Aug 1943, photo 2 of 2 | Soviet Army engineers building a bridge across the Seversky Donets River, Belgorod, Russia, Aug 1943 |
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| Jim Helton, engineer of B-17 bomber 'Sally', posing with a rebuilt A6M3 Zero fighter, Eagle Farm Airport, Brisbane, Australia, 12 Aug 1943; 'Sally' in background | Men of Company K, 3rd Battalion, US 27th Infantry Regiment along the Zieta Trail, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 12 Aug 1943 |
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| USS Pennsylvania in Adak Bay, Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, on 12 Aug 1943, just prior to the Kiska operation | American troops marching up the beach at Adak, Aleutian Islands during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska invasion, 13 Aug 1943; note LCM landing craft, USS Pennsylvania, and M1 Garand rifles |
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| B-24 Liberator of the 43rd Bomb Group during a bombing run over the major Japanese base at Salamaua, Australian New Guinea, 13 Aug 1943. | B-25 Mitchell bombers of the US 42nd Bomber Group practicing skip-bombing off New Caledonia, 13 Aug 1943 |
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| German Tiger I heavy tanks climbing a hill on the front lines near Belgorod, Russia, 13 Aug 1943 | Aerial photo of Cotten underway off New York City, 14 Aug 1943 |
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| Portside midships of USS Nicholas during a patrol in the Solomon Island “Slot,” 14 Aug 1943. Note the depth charge launchers along the rail. | US Army Major General J. Lawton Collins and Major Charles Davis at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 14 Aug 1943 |
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| 5 cm PaK 38 gun in action, Kharkiv, Ukraine, mid-Aug 1943 | Commander of the Steppe Front Ivan Konev during the Belgorod-Kharkov Operation, Ukraine-Russian border, mid-Aug 1943 |
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