Photos of World War II Events | World War II Database

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US Navy personnel freeing a PBY-5A Catalina aircraft from frozen waters in the Aleutian Islands at Kodiak Bay, US Territory of Alaska, May 1942-Jan 1943	US Pilot’s Strip Chart of “The Slot” in the Solomon chain with ranges indicated from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. US aircraft flying from Henderson Field were colloquially known as the “Cactus Air Force” after their radio call sign.	US reconnaissance photo of a sunken Japanese supply ship on the coast of New Guinea, 1942-1943; note ship's stores moved to the beach and expansive coconut grove beyond	USAAF A-20 Havoc aircraft attacking a Japanese airfield at a low altitude, Lae, New Guinea, circa 1943; note G4M bomber on the ground

USS New Orleans making repairs under make-shift camouflage in Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 Dec 1942. New Orleans was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tassafaronga that blew off 150 feet of her bow.	Vasily Chuikov at Stalingrad, Russia, 1942-1943	Veterans of the Shanghai Sihang Warehouse engagement at an event, China, 1943	View from HMS Sheffield while she was on convoy escort duty, Norwegian Sea or Barents Sea, 1941-1945

Wreck of two G4M bombers at Lae, New Guinea, 1943	Wreck of Yamazuki Maru at Veuru, near Cape Esperence, Guadalcanal, late 1942 or early 1943	Wrecked Marseillaise, Toulon, France, circa late 1942 or early 1943	A PBY-5 Catalina of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-11 on the Sepik River in Australian New Guinea bringing supplies to a coast-watcher working in the area, Jan 1943

Australian troops and M3 General Stuart light tank fighting near Buna, New Guinea, Jan 1943	British pilots resting at Luqa airfield, Malta, Jan 1943; note Beaufighter and Spitfire Mk VC aircraft in background	Derzhprom building and Maidan Dzerzhynskoho square, Kharkov, Ukraine, Jan 1943	F4F Wildcat fighters of the US Navy and Marines lined up on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Jan 1943

German 17 cm K 18 gun in action in Tunisia, Jan-Feb 1943	Russian soldier with PPSh-41 submachine gun guarding a wounded young German prisoner of war, Stalingrad, Russia, Jan 1943	Russian soldiers fighting in Stalingrad, Russia, Jan 1943	Soviet troops charging near Leningrad, Russia, 1 Jan 1943; note PPD submachine gun