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Light Tank AA Mk I in North Africa, 15 Sep 1942	U-156 and U-507 with survivors of RMS Laconia in the Atlantic Ocean, 15 Sep 1942

Wasp (Wasp-class) burning and listing after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 in the South Pacific, 15 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2.	Wasp (Wasp-class) burning and listing after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 in the South Pacific, 15 Sep 1942. Photo 2 of 2.

Destroyer USS Laffey (foreground) and cruiser USS Juneau in Luganville anchorage, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 16 Sep 1942. Both ships arrived with survivors of the sunken USS Wasp (Wasp-class). Photo 1 of 4.	Destroyer USS Laffey (foreground) and cruiser USS Juneau in Luganville anchorage, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 16 Sep 1942. Both ships arrived with survivors of the sunken USS Wasp (Wasp-class). Photo 2 of 4.

Destroyer USS Laffey (foreground) and cruiser USS Juneau in Luganville anchorage, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 16 Sep 1942. Both ships arrived with survivors of the sunken USS Wasp (Wasp-class). Photo 3 of 4.	Destroyer USS Laffey (foreground) and cruiser USS Juneau in Luganville anchorage, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 16 Sep 1942. Both ships arrived with survivors of the sunken USS Wasp (Wasp-class). Photo 4 of 4.

Erwin Rommel and Hans-Joachim Marseille, Libya, 16 Sep 1942	Hans-Joachim Marseille with Erwin Rommel and others, Libya, 16 Sep 1942

Laffey at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides with survivors of Wasp on board, 16 Sep 1942; note Helena and a destroyer in background	President Franklin Roosevelt being presented with a Japanese flag captured by US Marines on Makin Island by Marine Corps Commandant LtGen Thomas Holcomb, White House, Washington DC, 17 Sep 1942.

Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, commander of Task Force 61 in support of the Guadalcanal landings, aboard his flagship USS Saratoga, 17 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2.	Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, commander of Task Force 61 in support of the Guadalcanal landings, aboard his flagship USS Saratoga, 17 Sep 1942. Photo 2 of 2.

Doolittle raiders posing with B-25 Mitchell bomber 'Obliterators Excuse Please', China, 18 Sep 1942	AEC Mk I armored car in the Western desert, Egypt, 20 Sep 1942

Portrait of Hans-Joachim Marseille, Sep 1942	Portrait of Hans-Joachim Marseille, Sep 1942

Portrait of Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille, mid-Sep 1942; note Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords	US Navy Rear Admiral John McCain, left, is relieved by Rear Admiral Aubrey Fitch as Commander, Aircraft, South Pacific, 20 Sep 1942