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Down by the bow, USS New Orleans arriving in Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 Dec 1942. The night before, New Orleans was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tassafaronga that blew off 150 feet of her bow.	Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-109 commanded by Ensign Bryant L Larson delivering 96 survivors from the sunken cruiser USS Northampton to Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 Dec 1942. Note the cruiser USS New Orleans at left.	Injured man on a stretcher aboard USS Minneapolis, 1 Dec 1942	Soviet 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft gun and crew, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Dec 1942; note the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange building in background

Soviet leaders reviewing a map of Stalingrad, Russia, 1 Dec 1942; left to right: Nikita Khrushchev, Alexei Ilarionovich, Alexei Chuyanov, Andrey Yeryomenko	Soviet snipers moving amongst ruined buildings in Stalingrad, Russia, 1 Dec 1942	USS Minneapolis in Tulagi, Solomon Islands, under repair for torpedo damage received during Battle of Tassafaronga, 1 Dec 1942; note her bow being cut away	A page out of a Manhattan Project scientist's notebook, noting the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, achieved on 2 Dec 1942

Men and supplies of the 132rd Regimental Combat Team of the US Army Americal Division, Kikum, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 8 Dec 1942	Men and weapons of the 132rd Regimental Combat Team of the US Army Americal Division, Kikum, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 8 Dec 1942; note M3 37mm gun	Men entering the cooperative canteen at Granada Relocation Center for deported Japanese-Americans (Camp Amache) in Colorado, United States, 9 Dec 1942.	Russian civilians on a street in Leningrad, Russia, 10 Dec 1942; note damaged building in background

Soviet naval infantrymen manning a machine gun position at the edge of the Gulf of Finland near Leningrad, Russia, 10 Dec 1942	Bruce McCandless receiving the Medal of Honor from Ernest King aboard USS San Francisco, 12 Dec 1942 in San Francisco, California, United States. The medal was for night actions off Savo Island, Solomons, 12 Nov 1942.	USS San Francisco at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 14 Dec 1942; note circles marking shell damage during Naval Battle of Guadalcanal of 13 Nov 1942	SBD Dauntless aircraft flying over USS Enterprise (foreground) and USS Saratoga (background), off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 19 Dec 1942

View of Stalingrad, Russia, 23 Dec 1942	1943 map of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands	1943 United States Army map of western Guadalcanal and the Russel Islands in the Solomon chain.	A few possessions of the Yonemitsu family at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943