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Mr. & Mrs. Hirata on the steps of the YMCA recreation hall at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.	PB2Y-3 Coronado sometime after Sep 1943, location unknown. Note the unusual Navy practice of painting the airplane’s Bureau of Aeronautics serial number (BuNo) on the tail similar to the Army practice.

PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Squadron VP-63 at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, United Kingdom, late 1943. Note backward firing anti-submarine rockets, part of their new Magnetic Anomaly Detection warfare.	Portrait of King Mihai I of Romania, Nov 1943

Portside view of USS Gar off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Oct-Nov 1943	Potato fields at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943. Note Mt. Williamson in the background.

Prototype V3 of Ta 154 Moskito night fighter, circa late-1943	Rommel and Mussolini in conversation, Salò, Italy, late 1943

Roy Takeno, editor of the Manzanar Free Press (left), with Yuichi Hirata and Nabuo Samamura in front of the newspaper office at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, 1943.	Sailors gathered on Cowpens' flight deck, Atlantic Ocean, Jul-Aug 1943; note red lines on side of the SBD Dauntless wing roundel, which was used only between 29 Jun 1943 and 14 Aug 1943

School children at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.	Science Class at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.

Snow covered barracks at the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.	Submarine Golet in Lake Michigan off Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, Nov 1943

T69 prototype multiple gun motor carriage, circa late 1943	TBF Avenger running up its engines before launching from escort carrier USS Santee in the Atlantic, Nov 1943. Note the catapult bridle attached to the landing gear.

TBF Avengers on the ramp at Kahului Naval Air Station on Maui, Hawaii, shortly after the station opened, Nov 1943.	TBF-1 Avengers returning to USS Lexington (Essex-class) during the Gilberts campaign, Nov 1943.

TBM-1C Avengers over Makin Island (now Butaritari Island), in the Gilbert Islands following a bombing raid, Nov 1943.	The entrance to the Manzanar Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans, Inyo County, California, United States, 1943.