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F6F Hellcat fighters going through launch procedures aboard the carrier Saratoga, off Gilbert Islands, early 1943.	F6F-3 Hellcat of Navy Fighting Squadron 33 after dropping into a bomb crater at the Barakoma airstrip, Vella Lavella, Solomons, late 1943. Fighting 33 was one of the few land based fighter squadrons, a role later taken up by Marine squadrons.	Five Japanese F1M seaplanes at Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, 1943	Flight Officer P. M. Wright supervising Sergeant K. F. Sperrin and WAAF operators Joan Lancaster, Elaine Miley, Gwen Arnold, and Joyce Hollyoak in the receiver room at RAF Bawdsey, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, date unknown

G3M bombers in flight in the Aleutian islands, 1942-1943	General Chuikov meeting with his chief of staff N. I. Krilov and council K. L. Gurov, Stalingrad, Russia, circa 1942-1943	Geschutzwagen Lorraine Schlepper 15 cm sFH 13 Field Gun on a French chassis that has been abandoned in North Africa, 1943.	Groves and Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 1940s

Hadamar Euthanasia Center nursing staff, Hadamar, Germany, 1940s	HMS Bellona in stormy seas en route to Russia, 1941-1945	Japanese machine gun crew at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa 1942-1943	Japanese Navy Warrant Officer Kenji Yanagiya, 1943. Yanagiya piloted an escorting fighter when Isoroku Yamamoto was shot down. He was the only Japanese pilot from that flight to survive the war.

Japanese officers at the Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, circa 1942-1943	Japanese-American artist C. T. Hibino at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943	Japanese-American farmers working at Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California, United States, 1942-1943	Japanese-American internees exercising, Manzanar War Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943

Japanese-American internees of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp playing a game of baseball, California, United States, circa 1943	Japanese-American internees playing Go at the internment camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, United States, 1943	Japanese-American Tom Kobayashi at the south fields of Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943	Japanese-American women outside a barber shop in the Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California, United States, 1942-1943