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Celebration in Guangzhou, Guandong Province, China over the Japanese victory in Singapore, circa 16 Feb 1942, photo 2 of 3	Celebration in Guangzhou, Guandong Province, China over the Japanese victory in Singapore, circa 16 Feb 1942, photo 3 of 3	Japanese troops marching through Fullerton Square, Singapore, circa Feb 1942	Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tanks parading through Singapore, Feb 1942

Badly damaged USS Arizona foremast structure, bridge, and top of turret number 2 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 17 Feb 1942. Note floating crane YD-25 at left	Battleship USS Nevada refloated after being sunk on 7 Dec 1941 and ready to be moved to a drydock, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 17 Feb 1942.	G4M1 bomber of Japanese Navy 4th Air Group commander Lieutenant Masayoshi Nakagawa, moments before crashing into sea during attack on USS Lexington off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 20 Feb 1942. Photo 1 of 2	G4M1 bomber of Japanese Navy 4th Air Group commander Lieutenant Masayoshi Nakagawa, moments before crashing into sea during attack on USS Lexington off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 20 Feb 1942. Photo 2 of 2

Smoke rising from the port facilities at Oosthaven, Sumatra as Allied personnel set fires during the withdrawal, 20 Feb 1942	Ship’s track for USS Lexington (Lexington-class) off Bougainville for 19-22 Feb 1942.	Ellwood oil piers at Goleta, California, United States shelled by Commander Kozo Nishino in Japanese submarine I-17 23 Feb 1942 in the first naval bombardment of the continental United States in World War II.	Salvage work continuing on the sunken battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 25 Feb 1942. Note Arizona’s two after main turrets being pumped out and disassembled.

Newspaper 'San Francisco Examiner' showing headlines of Japanese relocation, San Francisco, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942	Burning tanker SS R.P. Resor off the coast of New Jersey, United States after being torpedoed by German submarine U-578. Resor burned for 46 hours after being torpedoed before grounding off Barnegat Light.	A Japanese soldier passing by American propaganda, circa 1942	Albacore aircraft of No. 820 Squadron, British Fleet Air Arm taking off from HMS Victorious, which was on distant cover for Arctic convoys, Mar 1942

Group of interned Japanese-Canadians at a road camp on the Yellowhead Pass, British Columbia, Canada, Mar 1942	Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell awarding the Silver Star to Chinese pilot Captain Tsang Hsi-lan for actions in the air during the Battle of Changsha, early 1942.	Oil tanker SS Emidio grounded on Steamboat Rock, Crescent City, California, United States, 1942. Emidio was shelled and torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-17 off Cape Mendocino on 20 Dec 1941 and drifted to this position.	Two Japanese-Americans playing a game of Go while awaiting relocation, San Francisco, California, United States, early 1942