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HMS Victorious at anchor in the Solomons, Jul 1943. This was during the period Victorious was on loan to the US Fleet. Note US F4F Wildcats and TBM Avengers on the flight deck.	James Doolittle awarding the Purple Heart to the crew of B-17E Flying Fortress bomber 'Sweet Chariot', Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, Jul 1943	Men of USMC 9th Defense Battalion firing their 155mm Gun M1 from Rendova or another nearby island toward New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	Overturned F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943

Reconnaissance photo of the two primary oil refineries in Ploesti Romania taken in preparation of the low level B-24 Liberator bomber attack of Aug 1 1943.	United States Hydrographic Office July 1943 map of Efate Island, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) showing friendly aircraft approach bearings.	United States Hydrographic Office July 1943 map of the Marshall Islands showing distances and bearings between major island groups.	United States Hydrographic Office July 1943 map of the New Hebrides Islands (now Vanuatu) showing friendly aircraft approach bearings.

US Army DUKW loaded with oil drums coming ashore at Gela, Sicily, Italy, Jul 1943	US Army Private Lloyd Culuck of A Company, 1st Battalion, US 172nd Infantry Regiment eating a can of Ration B, using the lid as spoon while wearing 12-day-old dirty clothes, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	US Marines wading across a stream, New Georgia, 1943	US Navy Scouting Squadron 44 (VS-44) OS2U Kingfisher aircraft, piloted by Ens. J. Clay Staples, in flight over southern Caribbean Sea, circa Jul 1943

Wounded Italian soldiers from the Sicily invasion being transferred from a ship to waiting WC54 ambulances at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, July 1943	Rear Admiral Alan Kirk aboard USS Ancon, off Scoglitti, Sicily, Italy, Jul 1943	Soviet Il-2 aircraft attacking a German motorized column near the border of Kursk Oblast and Voronezh Oblast, Russia, Jul 1943	Captured Japanese coastal defense gun at Enogai, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 5 Jul 1943

Troop transport USS Susan B. Anthony (converted luxury liner) in Mers-el-Kebir, Oran, Algeria preparing for the invasion of Sicily, 5 Jul 1943. Note LCVP landing craft hanging from her davits and stowed on her foredeck.	Rescued survivors of USS Helena aboard destroyer USS Nicholas, Solomon Islands, 6 Jul 1943. Photo 2 of 2.	USS Denver SG radarscope image showing Battle of Kula Gulf situation at 0117 on 6 Jul 1943	USS Helena (left) and USS St. Louis (right) firing during Battle of Kula Gulf in the Solomon Islands, 6 Jul 1943; photo taken from USS Honolulu