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Landing Signal Officers stand-by as an SNJ Texan approaches training aircraft carrier USS Sable for a landing on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	Launching of a V-2 rocket, Peenemünde, Germany, summer 1943	Lt Stanley Stedt, a bombardier with the 306th Bomb Group, sitting astride a 4,000-pound bomb while fellow airmen sit atop cases of .50-caliber ammunition, RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, Jul 1943.	Me 323 Gigant heavy transport in flight, circa 1940s

Medical tent at a Hitler Youth summer camp near Berlin, Germany, Jul 1943	Men of USMC 9th Defense Battalion firing their 155mm Gun M1 from Rendova or another nearby island toward New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	Overturned F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943	P-38H Lightning aircraft at rest, Jul 1943

P-40 Warhawk fighters of the 18th Fighter Squadron escorting B-24 Liberator bombers of the 21st Bomb Squadron over the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Jul 1943.	Painted wall showing the mission record of the 306th Bombardment Group in a hut at RAF Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, circa mid-1943.	Reconnaissance photo of the two primary oil refineries in Ploesti Romania taken in preparation of the low level B-24 Liberator bomber attack of Aug 1 1943.	SB2C Helldiver aircraft on the flight deck of carrier Yorktown, circa Jul-Sep 1943

SdKfz 165 self-propelled gun in the Soviet Union, Jun-Jul 1943	SOC-1 Seagull aircraft of US Navy Cruiser Scouting Squadron Seven being recovered by its parent cruiser, Jul 1943	The camera catches an FM-2 Wildcat mid-bounce in a hard landing aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Sable on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943. This aircraft probably ended up on its back, like so many did.	United States Hydrographic Office July 1943 map of Efate Island, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) showing friendly aircraft approach bearings.

United States Hydrographic Office July 1943 map of the Marshall Islands showing distances and bearings between major island groups.	United States Hydrographic Office July 1943 map of the New Hebrides Islands (now Vanuatu) showing friendly aircraft approach bearings.	United States Navy ordinancemen servicing a Mark XIII torpedo at a Naval air station in the Aleutian Islands, Jun-Aug 1943	US Army DUKW loaded with oil drums coming ashore at Gela, Sicily, Italy, Jul 1943