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Franklin Roosevelt, the Earl of Athlone, Mckenzie King, and Winston Churchill on the terrace at the Citadelle, Quebec, Canada, Aug 1943	Louis Mountbatten, John Dill, Hastings Ismay, Ernest King, Henry Arnold, William Leahy, Kenneth Stuart, Percy Nelles, and George Marshall at Château Frontenac during Quebec Conference, Canada, Aug 1943	Type IXC/40 U-Boat U-185 foundering in the mid-Atlantic after an aerial depth charge attack by a TBF-1 Avenger from Escort Carrier USS Core, 24 Aug 1943. 36 were rescued while 43 perished.	Grave marker of an American airman killed in combat and interned by the Japanese Army, Kiska, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, Aug 1943

Hitler Youth firefighters in action, Düsseldorf, Germany, 25 Aug 1943	155mm Gun M1 of USMC 4th Defense Battalion near Barakoma, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, circa late Aug 1943	Montgomery and Eisenhower inspecting enemy installations across the Strait of Messina from Sicily, 30 Aug 1943	2Lt Harry S Huidekoper, USMCR of VMF-213 poses aboard the hulk of F4U-1 Corsair “George,” Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Sept 1943. This aircraft previously flew with VMF-122.

American field hospital, New Georgia, 1943	Barren landscape, New Georgia, 1943	Brigadier R. E. Urquhart, Lieutenant General Oliver Leese, and Lieutenant Colonel W. B. H. Ray in Sicily, Italy, 1943	Map of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands created by the New Zealand military depicting the troop movements during the island’s capture, Aug 1943.

Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sep 1943. Note the crews are in the process of applying the newly updated National Insignia with white bars and a blue border.	Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sept 1943.	Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sept 1943. Note the crews are in the process of applying the newly updated National Insignia with white bars and a blue border.	Parafrag bombs descending on a Japanese airstrip at Wewak, Australian New Guinea, 1943

PV-1 Ventura in service as a night fighter with Marine Night Fighting Squadron VMF(N)-531 at Banika, Russell Islands in the Solomons, mid-Sep 1943.	Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy near Salerno after being shot down Sep 9, 1943; pilot uninjured. LST-359 unloads men and materiel beyond, Sep 1943. Photo 2 of 2	Supermarine Spitfire of the US 307th Fighter Squadron rests on the beach at Paestum, Italy near Salerno after being shot down Sep 9, 1943; pilot uninjured. LST-391 unloads men and materiel beyond, Sep 1943. Photo 1 of 2	Two Japanese soldiers captured at Ilangana Peninsula east of Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, mid-1943