Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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Medical units of the 306th Bomb Group at RAF Thurleigh in Bedfordshire, England stand ready as the bombers return from a mission to enemy territory, 1943-44.	Men of US 24th Marine Regiment in exercise, Camp Pendleton, California, United States, late 1943

P-40N Warhawk 'Geronimo' of the 45th Fighter Squadron being serviced on Nanumea Airfield, Ellice Islands, Dec 1943	PBM-3S Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol bombing squadron VPB-211 flying over the Brazilian naval dockyard at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec 1943

Portrait of Otto Skorzeny at the SS rank of Haupsturmführer, 1943	Rear Admiral Ralph Christie, Commander of Submarine Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, reading the Presidential Citation to the captain and crew of USS Bowfin, Fremantle, Australia, Dec 1943.

Submarine USS Bowfin arriving at Fremantle, Australia, probably from her second war patrol in Dec 1943.	Three US Navy PBY-5A Catalina aircraft of VP-52 in flight in the southwest Pacific, Dec 1943

Tiger I heavy tanks of the German 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, Kirovograd, Ukraine, Dec 1943, photo 1 of 2	Tiger I heavy tanks of the German 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, Kirovograd, Ukraine, Dec 1943, photo 2 of 2

Two German soldiers before a sign noting that 'whoever digs deeper has better chance of survival', Norway or Finland, Dec 1943	Two German soldiers before a sign noting that to leave the city one would need a permit, Finland or Norway, Dec 1943

US Marine code talkers on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Dec 1943	US Marine Corps F4U-1 Corsair fighters in flight, late 1943; seen in Jul-Aug 1984 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

US Marine on a captured Japanese Navy vehicle, Makin, Gilbert Islands, late 1943	US Marines 3rd Division anti-aircraft crew performing trials with newly assigned 90mm M2 anti-aircraft guns at Cape Torokina by Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, circa late 1943

USAAF reconnaissance photograph of Mako harbor, Pescadores Islands, Dec 1943	View over the bow of USS Washington during Gilbert Islands campaign, Dec 1943

WAAF Leading Aircraftwoman M. Wishart taking a weather reading from a thermohygrograph, RAF Pitreavie Castle, Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom, Dec 1943	WAAF technician operating a 16mm Bell and Howell rostrum camera, RAF Bentley Priory, London, England, United Kingdom, Dec 1943