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| A column of smoke from burning rubber at a Malayan rubber plantation, Dec 1941 | Admiral Percy Noble speaking to crew of HMS Stork at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, mid-Dec 1941 |
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| Lieutenant Commander Creed C. Burlingame at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for the commissioning of Gato-class submarine Silversides, Vallejo, California, United States, 15 Dec 1941. | Officers and men of the Gato-class submarine USS Silversides assembled on deck for the boat’s commissioning at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 15 Dec 1941. |
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| Pearl Harbor chart found in Japanese submarine Ha-19 | Soviet cavalry entering a Russian town, 15 Dec 1941 |
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| Stocks of rubber, held by a factory on a rubber plantation in Malaya, were burned during the British retreat toward Singapore, Dec 1941 | US Marine detachment of USS West Virginia aboard another warship, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, mid or late Dec 1941 |
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| US Navy machine gun crew, possibly at Naval Air Station Ford Island, US Territory of Hawaii, circa mid-Dec 1941 |
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