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Manstein and Hoth eating a meal, southern Russia, summer 1942	Map depicting the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway in May-Jun 1942

Member of a construction crew building a 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942	Men of South African 7th Motorized Brigade unloading at Diego-Suárez, Madagascar, Jun 1942

Musashi and her crew on forward deck, Jun 1942	New Zealand, South African, and Sikh Indian troops at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, circa 1942

Newly arrived aviation cadets at the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States submitting to haircut inspection, circa 1942. Note OS2U Kingfisher aircraft.	Portrait of Saburo Sakai cropped from a Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group group portrait, Lae, New Guinea, Jun 1942; note autograph

RAF Hornchurch station commander Group Captain Charles Lott putting on his flying kit with the assistance of his WAAF driver Leading Aircraftwoman Mary Ford, Hornchurch, Essex (now London Borough of Havering), England, United Kingdom, Jun 1942; note Spitfire fighter in background	Repair activities aboard Shokaku's boat deck, damaged by the second bomb that hit her during the Battle of Coral Sea, Kure, Japan, between 17 May and 27 Jun 1942

Repairing a machine gun position aboard Shokaku, which was damaged by the third bomb hit during Battle of the Coral Sea, , Kure, Japan, between 17 May and 27 Jun 1942	Royal Australian Navy personnel examining the hulls and pieces of the Japanese Type A midget submarines recovered from Sydney Harbor after the 31 May 1942 raid.

Scout Car S1 (American) at rest, date unknown; note Browning M2 machine gun on top and two Browning M1921 machine guns in rear	SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle, possibly of the German 24th Panzer Division, Russia, Jun 1942; note Wurfrahmen 40 multiple rocker launcher

Shokaku's damaged flight deck as the result of bomb hits during Battle of the Coral Sea, Kure, Japan, between 17 May and 27 Jun 1942	SOC Seagull aircraft just launched from Augusta's catapult, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Jun 1942

Soviet Army radioman receiving a Soviet Information Bureau communique, Russia, Jun 1942	Soviet troops with PPSh-41 submachine guns in a village in the Caucasus region of southern Russia, Jun 1942

Spitfire Mark VB fighters of No. 131 Squadron RAF at Merston, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Jun 1942	Spitfire Mk. VC aircraft aboard USS Wasp, en route to Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, mid-1942; note HMS Eagle in background