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Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang greeting Chiang Kaishek, Xining, Qinghai, China, Aug 1942	Main Street and barrack huts at German prisoner of war camp Stalag IX-A at Ziegenhain, Germany. Photo was taken in 1942 from the camp’s main watch tower.

Major General Alexander Vandegrift at a field desk on Guadalcanal, circa Aug-Dec 1942	Major General George C. Kenney, commander of US 5th Air Force, and Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, commander of US V Bombing Command at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942

Map marking limit of Axis expansion in Europe, North Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean, Sep 1939-Aug 1942	Map showing the extent of Japanese advance in 1942

Marder III tank destroyer near Stalingrad, Russia, summer 1942	Minelayer USS Oglala, sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, at the piers of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in late 1942 soon after being refloated, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

National Youth Administration trainee Elmer Pace working on a PBY Catalina aircraft, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942	Pearl Harbor widow Virginia Young supervising trainee Ethel Mann at the Assembly and Repairs Department of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942

Recognition drawing for German light cruiser Leipzig, published by US Division of Naval Intelligence, Aug 1942	Rommel in SdKfz. 250/3 'Greif' armored vehicle in North Africa, Aug-Sep 1942

Rommel studying a map with his staff officers, North Africa, Aug 1942	SdKfz 10/4 vehicle of German 24th Panzer Division with a mounted 2 cm FlaK 30 anti-aircraft gun, southern Russia, summer 1942

SdKfz. 250/3 and SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicles in the field, southern Russia, Aug 1942	Shipyard caulker/chipper working on a submarine, possibly the future USS Puffer, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, Aug 1942

Shipyard workers installing engine parts onto a submarine, possibly the future USS Puffer, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, Aug 1942, photo 1 of 2	Shipyard workers installing engine parts onto a submarine, possibly the future USS Puffer, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, Aug 1942, photo 2 of 2

Sidewheeled steamship Seeandbee being converted into the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine In Buffalo, New York, United States, Aug 1942. Note the conspicuous absence of a propeller.	The tail of Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109 fighter showing 101 kills, circa Aug 1942