28,590 items in this album on 1,430 pages.
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| Admiral William Halsey presenting an award to a United States Navy Captain on the flight deck of USS Saratoga in the South Pacific, circa 1942. | Aerial view of Kiel, Germany, Feb-Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2; note arrow in center marking position of battleship Scharnhorst; photograph probably taken by RAF personnel |
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| Aerial view of Kiel, Germany, Feb-Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2; note arrow in center marking position of battleship Scharnhorst; photograph probably taken by RAF personnel | Aerial view of Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, United States, 1942 |
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| African-American factory workers working on the pilot compartment of an aircraft, United States, May 1942 | African-American US Army sergeant celebrating his 19th birthday, May 1942 |
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| African-American US Army Sergeant Franklin Williams sharing a soda with Ellen Hardin, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, May 1942 | American airmen posing with the side machine gun of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, May 1942 |
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| American garrison surrendered at Corregidor, May 1942 | American YB-17 bomber crew receiving last minute instructions before taking off on a mission, Langley Field, Virginia, United States, May 1942 |
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| Americans prisoners, with hands tied behind their backs, caught a rare moment of rest on the Bataan Death March, Luzon, Philippine Islands, May 1942 | Anti-submarine net Fort York Redoubt and McNabs Island, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 1942 |
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| Atlanta in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, May 1942 | Baggage belonging to recently relocated Japanese-Americans, California, United States, May 1942 |
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| Baggage belonging to recently relocated Japanese-Americans, Salinas, California, United States, 1942 | Barrage balloons being flown over Parris Island, South Carolina, United States, May 1942 |
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| Bow view of US submarine Grunion, mid-1942 | Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo being lifted aboard aircraft transport USS Kitty Hawk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, May 1942. Note open hangar bay in the stern of the ship. |
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| British and South Africa officers at Diego-Suárez, Madagascar, mid-May 1942 | British destroyer Icarus, Russian tanker Azerbaijan, and other ships in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, May 1942 |
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