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155mm Gun M1 arriving by rail at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Virginia, United States, 6 Aug 1943	German submarines U-66 (left) and U-117 were caught on the surface in the mid-Atlantic by a coordinated attack by TBF-1 Avengers and F4F Wildcats flying from USS Card, 7 Aug 1943. U-117 was sunk in the attack.	United States Navy sub chaser SC-1075 on the Delaware River, 9 Aug 1943. Note Mousetrap anti-submarine rocket rails on the foredeck, 20mm Oerlikon ant-aircraft guns, and side-dropping depth charge racks.	American troops marching up the beach at Adak, Aleutian Islands during pre-invasion loading for the Kiska invasion, 13 Aug 1943; note LCM landing craft, USS Pennsylvania, and M1 Garand rifles

US Army Major General J. Lawton Collins and Major Charles Davis at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 14 Aug 1943	5 cm PaK 38 gun in action, Kharkiv, Ukraine, mid-Aug 1943	A Canadian soldier inspecting a captured Japanese Type 96 machine gun, Kiska, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, 16 Aug 1943	Celebration for the 100,000th Bren gun built at the John Inglis and Company factory, Toronto, Canada, 20 Aug 1943, photo 1 of 2

Celebration for the 100,000th Bren gun built at the John Inglis and Company factory, Toronto, Canada, 20 Aug 1943, photo 2 of 2	Chinese General P. Kiang and Canadian factory worker June 'Miss Inglis' Pattison with the 100,000th Bren gun built at the John Inglis and Company factory, Toronto, Canada, 20 Aug 1943	Chinese representatives studying a Bren gun at the John Inglis and Company factory, Toronto, Canada, 20 Aug 1943	155mm Gun M1 of USMC 4th Defense Battalion near Barakoma, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, circa late Aug 1943

15 cm NbW 41 launcher being connected to the towing hitch of a halftrack, Russia, fall 1943, photo 1 of 2	15 cm NbW 41 launcher being connected to the towing hitch of a halftrack, Russia, fall 1943, photo 2 of 2	8 cm GrW 34 mortar and crew, Italy, Sep 1943	All hands passing 5-inch powder casings aboard USS Nicholas alongside an ammunition barge at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, Aug 1943.

British Royal Marines drilling with three 40-mm Bofors guns at the Royal Marine Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation Instructional Wing, Chatham Camp, Colombo, Ceylon, Sep 1943	Flakvierling 38 being towed in the Soviet Union, fall 1943, photo 1 of 2	Flakvierling 38 being towed in the Soviet Union, fall 1943, photo 2 of 2	German 21 cm Mrs 18 heavy howitzer at Bodø, Norway, fall 1943, photo 1 of 3