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Track of the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, 26 Mar 1943, prepared for the United States Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Combat Narrative report.	The battleship USS Oklahoma, capsized in the Pearl Harbor Attack on 7 Dec 1941, is righted to about 30-degrees during her salvage work, 29 Mar 1943. Photo 1 of 2.	The battleship USS Oklahoma, capsized in the Pearl Harbor Attack on 7 Dec 1941, is righted to about 30-degrees during her salvage work, 29 Mar 1943. Photo 2 of 2.	USS Salt Lake City at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, 29 Mar 1943, three days after participating in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. Note the marks on her side, possibly from ice damage.

Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto and Matome Ugaki, Rabaul, New Britain, Apr 1943	American officers at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa 1943; among them were Brigadier General A. F. Howard, Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson, Major General Charles D. Barrett, and Major General Robert S. Beighter	False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.	German discovery of the Katyn mass grave, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, Apr 1943, photo 1 of 2

German discovery of the Katyn mass grave, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, Apr 1943, photo 2 of 2	Identity card for Captain (acting Major) William Martin, Royal Marines; one of the fictitious documents created as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.	Japanese 8-in gun on southwest point of Betio, Tarawa Atoll, circa early- to mid-1943	Japanese troops sighting an 8-in artillery, circa early- to mid-1943

P-38G Lightning “Miss Virginia” after a belly landing at Fighter Strip #2, Kukum, Guadalcanal, Apr 1943. Days earlier, this plane, flown by Rex Barber, shot down the G4M bomber carrying Isoroku Yamamoto over Bougainville	Snapshot of “Major Martin’s” fiancée, Pam, that was part of the papers planted on his body as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942. In reality, this was an MI5 clerk named Jean Leslie.	Some of the effects included on “Major Martin’s” person as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942.	The corpse of Glyndŵr Michael fully dressed and outfitted as Major William Martin, Royal Marines just before being sealed in his air-tight canister as the central piece of Operation Mincemeat, London, England, Apr 1943.

Young Japanese-American Sachi Ohira of El Monte, California walking with her mother at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming, United States, 5 Apr 1943.	A boarding party shoves off from United States Coast Guard cutter Spencer to board the U-175 after the sub was forced to the surface by depth charges, North Atlantic, 500 nautical miles WSW of Ireland, 17 Apr 1943.	Boarding party from Coast Guard cutter Spencer approaching the U-175 after the sub was forced to the surface by depth charges, North Atlantic, 500 nautical miles WSW of Ireland, 17 Apr 1943. Minutes later, U-175 sank.	Boarding party from Coast Guard cutter Spencer approaching the U-175 after the sub was forced to the surface by depth charges, North Atlantic, 500 nautical miles WSW of Ireland, 17 Apr 1943. Minutes later, U-175 sank.