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American prisoners of war celebrated American Independence Day in Casisange prison camp at Malaybalay, Mindanao, against Japanese regulations, 4 Jul 1942	British troops digging defensive trenches near El Alamein, Egypt, 4 Jul 1942	New Zealand Brigadier Howard Kippenberger and Captain Allan McPhail inspecting a destroyed Cannone da 90/53 anti-aircraft gun formerly of the Italian Ariete Division, near El Alamein, Egypt, 4 Jul 1942 or shortly after	Overhead view of a South African Air Force raid on the German airfield at Martuba, Libya, 6 Jul 1942. Note circular dust patterns of bomb bursts and lines of dust kicked up by scrambling aircraft.

Canadian Chief of Naval Staff Vice-Admiral Percy Nelles inspecting a Japanese shell recovered from the Estevan Point lighthouse shelling attack of 20 Jun 1942 by Japanese submarine I-26.	25-pounder gun of Australian 2/8th Field Regiment near El Alamein, Egypt, 12 Jul 1942	Allied supply dumps on fire, Mersa Matruh, Egypt, 15 Jul 1942	US tanker Pennsylvania Sun burning after being torpedoed by German submarine U-571 in the Gulf of Mexico, 15 Jul 1942

Aerial photograph of North Head Kiska Harbor, Kiska Island, Alaska during a bombing mission, 17 Jul 1942. Note the notations made by the photo analysts.	British troops at a defensive position near El Alamein, Egypt, 17 Jul 1942	RAF reconnaissance photo showing Köln moored in the Fætten Fjord northeast of Trondheim, Norway, 19 Jul 1942, photo 1 of 3	RAF reconnaissance photo showing Köln moored in the Fætten Fjord northeast of Trondheim, Norway, 19 Jul 1942, photo 2 of 3

RAF reconnaissance photo showing Köln moored in the Fætten Fjord northeast of Trondheim, Norway, 19 Jul 1942, photo 3 of 3	Chinese Major General Zhu Shiming awarding Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington DC, United States, 25 Jul 1942	Chinese Major General Zhu Shiming studying a map with Doolittle Raiders Harold Watson, Charles McClure, and Ted Lawson, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington DC, United States, 25 Jul 1942	Mauthausen Concentration Camp prisoner Hans Bonarewitz being pulled in a cart prior to his execution, Austria, 30 Jul 1942

A German soldier with headphones and binoculars at an open hatch of a tank, Southern Russia, mid-1942; note SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicles and Panzer II tanks in background	A-20 Havoc aircraft of US V Bombing Command targeting Japanese airfield of Ki-48 bombers, at Hollandia, New Guinea, 1942	Aerial view of Stalingrad from a German bomber, Russia, Aug 1942	Damaged SdKfz 6/3 Diana self-propelled gun of German 605th Tank Destroyer Division, near El Alamein, Egypt, circa early Aug 1942