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Freighter SS Absaroka with her decks awash after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 off the San Pedro harbor entrance, Los Angeles, California, United States, 24 Dec 1941. | Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma of Japanese 14th Army arriving at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines, 24 Dec 1941 | USS Atlanta's commissioning ceremony, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 24 Dec 1941 | Japanese light carrier Shoho shortly after her conversion from a submarine tender, Yokosuka, Japan, 25 Dec 1941 |
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US Army Privates Kotula and Queen hanging stockings on Springfield M1903 rifles for the Christmas season, Camp Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams), Virginia, United States, Dec 1941 | US Army soldier dressed as Santa Claus during the Christmas holiday season at Camp Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams), Virginia, United States, Dec 1941 | US Army soldier dressed as Santa Claus during the Christmas holiday season at Camp Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams), Virginia, United States, Dec 1941; note Springfield M1903 rifles | Ha-19 under salvage on Oahu, 26 Dec 1941 |
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Soviet ski troops on patrol, Russia, 26 Dec 1941; note PPSh-41 submachine guns | Soviet troops marching, Kalinin (now Tver), Russia, 26 Dec 1941 | Takashi Sakai and Masaichi Niimi leading Japanese troops on a march on Queen's Road, Hong Kong, 26 Dec 1941, photo 1 of 2 | Takashi Sakai and Masaichi Niimi leading Japanese troops on a march on Queen's Road, Hong Kong, 26 Dec 1941, photo 2 of 2 |
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Soviet mortar position near Moscow, Russia, 27 Dec 1941 | Surrendered German troops near Moscow, Russia, 27 Dec 1941 | Arrival of the first train to the city of Vorkuta, Komi, Russia, 28 Dec 1941; Polish prisoners of war would be arriving by train shortly after | Soviet Army engineers preparing to build a bridge, near Naro-Fominsk, Russia, 28 Dec 1941 |
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Chan Chak (center, with arm in sling) and others in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, 29 Dec 1941 | Chan Chak with British and Chinese personnel who had recently escaped from Hong Kong, Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China, 29 Dec 1941 | A British soldier wounded during fighting in Malaya was being put onto an ambulance in Singapore, circa Dec 1941 to Jan 1942 | Submarine Growler at the fitting out piers at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 30 Dec 1941. Note Growler’s extended mine cutting gear above the suspended wooden planks. |