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Vandegrift at a field desk on Guadalcanal, circa Aug-Dec 1942	US Navy Lt Commander John D. Bulkeley receives the Medal of Honor from President Franklin Roosevelt, 4 Aug 1942. The medal was for his actions as a PT Boat Squadron commander in the Philippines, Dec 1941-Apr 1942	Winston Churchill, Leslie Morshead, Claude Auchinleck, and W. H. C. Ramsden (background) at 9th Australian Division headquarters, El Alamein, Egypt, 5 Aug 1942	Saburo Sakai being helped out of his aircraft after he made a 4+ hour flight to base with a serious injuries, Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942

Australian Prime Minister John Curtin and his wife Elsie at the launch of HMAS Fremantle, Brisbane, Australia, 18 Aug 1942	During an inspection tour to El Alamein, Egypt, Winston Churchill looks out across the desert toward the German lines, 19 Aug 1942.	Prime Minister John Curtin's party entering Brisbane City Hall in Brisbane, Australia, 19 Aug 1942	US 1st Marine Division staff at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942

British Royal Air Force Air Vice Marshal Keith Park in pilot's gear, Malta, Sep 1942	Carl Mannerheim awarding the Mannerheim Cross medal to cadet Yrjö Keinose, Finland, Sep 1942	Hans von Greiffenberg and Maximilian von Weichs speaking to a colonel in Russia, fall 1942	Hans-Joachim Marseille and Mathew 'Mathias' Letulu, 1942

Marine Lt Col Chesty Puller in his command post on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Sep 1942.	Newspaper photo of US Army Air Force Chief of Transport Command, Major General Harold George, congratulating Nancy Harkness Love on her appointment to head the Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), Sep 1942	Portrait of Hans-Joachim Marseille, 1942	United States Navy Captain Miles Browning, Captain William Harrill, Captain F.B. McCrary, and Vice Admiral William Halsey at Naval Air Station Alameda, California, 6 Sep 1942. Note SNJ Texan aircraft.

Raeder reviewing Italian Navy with Captain Francesco Mimbelli, 9 Sep 1942	Hugh Dowding with an aide and several British fighter pilots outside the Air Ministry headquarters at the Adastral House (now Television House), London, England, United Kingdom, 14 Sep 1942	Erwin Rommel and Hans-Joachim Marseille, Libya, 16 Sep 1942	Hans-Joachim Marseille with Erwin Rommel and others, Libya, 16 Sep 1942