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Krueger, MacArthur, and Marshall in the South Pacific, late 1943	Mechanics working on the engine of P-39D Airacobra ‘Shrimp’ at the maintenance complex at Townsville, Australia, late 1943.

Men of Battery F, 70th Coast Artillery of the US Army manning a 37-mm anti-aircraft gun at Wickham Anchorage, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 1943	Mk 40 gun director seen from the island’s number two quad 40mm gun mount aboard the carrier USS Essex, late 1943. Note SBD Dauntless scout bombers with Bombing Squadron VB-9.

Navy photographer Lt. Charles Kerlee balancing on an outstretched antenna arm aboard the carrier USS Yorktown (Essex-class) while photographing aircraft landings, Oct 1943. Note safety rope around his waist.	New Zealand troops landing on Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 17 Sep 1943

Olive-drab painted B-29 bombers, late 1943	Ordnancemen aboard USS Yorktown (Essex-class) setting bomb fuses on the flight deck just forward of No. 1 5-inch/38 twin gun mount, circa Oct 1943. Note sighting hood covers open on the gun mounts.

Ordnancemen working in USS Yorktown's hangar deck amidst F6F-3 Hellcat fighters, circa Oct-Dec 1943	Raymond Spruance, Chester Nimitz, and Holland Smith at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Oct 1943

Sawfish off Hunters Point near San Francisco, California, United States, circa late 1943	Schweinfurt, Germany during Allied bombing, 1943

Scuttled minesweeper, Naples, Italy, Oct 1943	Soviet soldier taking care of a war orphan, Russia, Oct 1943; note PPSh-41 submachine gun in soldier's lap

Stern view of USS Gunnel off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, Oct 1943	Superfortress bomber in flight, late 1943

TBF Avenger torpedo bomber prepared to take off of USS Yorktown, late 1943	TBF-1 Avenger at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, showing a damaged wing from Japanese anti-aircraft fire, Oct 1943.

Three Ju 87D Stuka dive bombers in flight, Yugoslavia, Oct 1943	Tirpitz in the Alta Fjord