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Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. St. Martin’s church built in 1732 with one of the village’s barns in the foreground burned out but before explosives reduced them to rubble.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. The village cemetery in the act of being looted.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. The village cemetery with all graves open and the headstones broken up.	Surviviors of Hiryu aboard USS Ballard, Jun 1942

The burned out houses of Lidice, Czechoslovakia with some still smoldering, 10 Jun 1942.	The houses of Lidice, Czechoslovakia burning, 10 Jun 1942.	Beaufighter Mk VIC aircraft of No. 235 Squadron RAF taking off at Luqa, Malta, 15 Jun 1942	Destroyer HMS Bedouin listing after being hit by Italian cruisers Di Savoia and Montecuccoli, Mediterranean Sea, 15 Jun 1942

Destroyer HMAS Nestor listing to port after being abandoned, morning of 16 Jun 1942	Doolittle Raiders John Hilger, Charles Greening, Thomas White, Donald Smith, Dean Davenport, W. R. Pound, William Bower, James Macia, and Denver Trulove in Washingoton DC, United States, 18 Jun 1942	Survivors of Hiryu disembarking USS Ballard at Midway, 20 Jun 1942. Ballard rescued 35 Japanese sailors the previous day after two weeks in an open boat. One died while en route Midway and was buried at sea.	A building burning during the Battle of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, 21 Jun 1942

A German Army company commander and a platoon commander in discussion, Stalingrad, Russia, 21 Jun 1942	Civilians in Stalingrad, Russia, 21 Jun 1942	Russian aircraft flying over Stalingrad, Russia, 21 Jun 1942	Wrecked Russian T-34 tanks on the side of a railroad, Stalingrad, Russia, 21 Jun 1942

German generals Erwin Rommel and Fritz Bayerlein in Tobruk, Libya, circa late Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2; note British POWs in left of photo	German generals Erwin Rommel and Fritz Bayerlein in Tobruk, Libya, circa late Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2	Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3 at rest at the RAF airfield at Pembrey, South Wales, United Kingdom after German pilot Oberleutnant Armin Faber landed there by mistake after a furious dogfight over Devon, 23 Jun 1942	Damaged and partially disassembled F4F-3 Wildcat on Sand Island, Midway, circa 24-25 Jun 1942