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| Aircraft carrier Akagi shortly after leaving Port Stirling, Celebes for the Indian Ocean, 26 Mar 1942; note B5N torpedo bombers on flight deck | Canadian soldiers of the Edmonton Regiment priming the No. 36 grenades in Shoreham, England, United Kingdom, 26 Mar 1942 | Douglas MacArthur and John Curtin at Provisional Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, 26 Mar 1942 | Thomas Blamey, Douglas MacArthur, and John Curtin, Australia, 26 Mar 1942 |
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| US tanker Dixie Arrow burning after being torpedoed by German submarine U-71, off North Carolina, United States, 26 Mar 1942 |
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