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USS San Diego and USS San Juan, Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, Jan 1942	View of Naval Air Station Ford Island, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Jan or Feb 1942; note J2F Duck, JRS, OS2U, and R3D (tail only) aircraft, USS Curtiss, and Northampton-class cruisers

Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, British Ambassador Lord Halifax, and Chinese Ambassador Song Ziwen with US President Franklin Roosevelt, Washington DC, United States, 1 Jan 1942	Female workers in a factory in Leningrad, Russia, 1 Jan 1942

The hulls of destroyers Nicholas (left) and O’Bannon (right) under construction at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, United States, 1 Jan 1942. These two ships would be side-by-side for much of their careers.	Walter Nash, Lord Halifax, Song Ziwen, Alexander Loudon, and Manuel Quezon with Franklin Roosevelt, Washington DC, United States, 1 Jan 1942

Canadians pulling the wreckage of a Digby Mark I aircraft out of Freshwater Bay at Dover, Dominion of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), after the plane crashed into the bay on 2 Jan 1942	Pilots of No. 3 Squadron RAAF discussing operational plans outside their tents in Libya's western desert, 2 Jan 1942

President Hayes and USS New Mexico at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 2 Jan 1942	Laffey fitting out at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, 3 Jan 1942; note San Francisco's skyline in background

BL 9.2 inch Mk X coastal defense gun at Gibraltar, 4 Jan 1942	USS Ballard at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 5 Jan 1942; note submarines under construction, probably Wahoo and Whale

USS Milwaukee off the New York Navy Yard, United States, 7 Jan 1942	View of USS Milwaukee's forward superstructure, at New York Navy Yard, United States, 7 Jan 1942

Wasp off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States following overhaul, 8 Jan 1942	Lt George Welch and Lt Ken Taylor pose for a photograph after the ceremony at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, Jan 9, 1942 where each was presented with the Distinguished Service Cross for their actions on Dec 7, 1941.

HMS Ameer at anchor on the Clyde in Greenock, Scotland, United Kingdom, 10 Jan 1942.	San Diego in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 10 Jan 1942

The first ABDA command meeting, 10 Jan 1942; left to right: Geoffrey Layton, Conrad Helfrich, Thomas Hart, Hein ter Poorten, Emile Kengen, Archibald Wavell, George Brett, and Lewis Bereton	Japanese troops mopping up in Kuala Lumpur during their advance through Malaya, 11 Jan 1942