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Portrait of Hans-Joachim Marseille, 1942	Preparing 16-inch guns for installation on USS Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942

Prisoners of war rounded up in the central plaza of Selarang Barracks, Changi, Singapore, early Sep 1942	Profile of captured A6M 'Akutan Zero' fighter with US markings in San Diego, California, United States, Sep 1942

RAAF Squadron Leader Keith W “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942.	Russian civilians in the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, Sep 1942

Sailors with a loaded Mousetrap rocket array, probably fall of 1942 at Key West, Florida, United States.	SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of Scouting Squadron VS-41 turning toward the carrier USS Ranger in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, United States, Sep 1942.

SBD aircraft destroyed in an air attack on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942	SdKfz 232 and other vehicles of 39th Tank Hunter Battalion of German 21st Panzer Division, Egypt, mid-1942

Shipyard worker working on a turret aboard battleship Iowa, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, fall 1942	Six B-17E bombers, the entire heavy bombing strength of the US 5th Air Force at the time, took off for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 1942

Soldier of German 24th Panzer Division sleeping on the sidecar of a R75 motorcycle, southern Russia, Aug-Sep 1942	Submarine Tribune underway, Sep 1942; photo taken from atop the conning tower

TBF Avenger torpedo bombers flying in formation above Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Sep 1942	The bow section of the sunken destroyer USS Tucker sticking out of the water off Malo Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, circa Sep 1942.

Three Lockheed A-29 Hudsons fly past Mt McKinley, Territory of Alaska, circa 1942	Unloading a 37 mm Gun M3 from a transport aircraft, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States, Sep 1942

US Marine Corps Wildcat fighter taking off from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Sep 1942	US Marines resting in the field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Aug-Dec 1942; note Springfield M1903 rifles and a Browning Automatic Rifle gunner on far right