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A TBD-1 Devastator bomber flew over Wake Island during the American attack of 24 Feb 1942; note thick smoke in lower center	Henley at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 25 Feb 1942	Plan view, aft, of destroyer Helm, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 25 Feb 1942	Plan view, forward, of destroyer Helm, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 25 Feb 1942

Salvage work continuing on the sunken battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 25 Feb 1942. Note Arizona’s two after main turrets being pumped out and disassembled.	Destroyer USS Shaw entering Drydock No. 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942.	Helm off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942	Henley off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942

Newspaper 'San Francisco Examiner' showing headlines of Japanese relocation, San Francisco, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942	Burning tanker SS R.P. Resor off the coast of New Jersey, United States after being torpedoed by German submarine U-578. Resor burned for 46 hours after being torpedoed before grounding off Barnegat Light.	Seaplane tender Langley being abandoned after being damaged by Japanese bombs, south of Java, 27 Feb 1942; destroyer Edsall by Langley's port side, men in foreground were of destroyer Whipple	A Japanese soldier passing by American propaganda, circa 1942

A letter published in the Hitler Youth magazine Deutsche Jugendburg, Mar-Apr 1942; note insert photograph of Adolf Hitler and a Hitler Youth member	A Mustang Mk I fighter being test flown in Inglewood, California, United States in 1942 before being delivered to the British Royal Air Force	A TBF Avenger of Torpedo Squadron VT-8 at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Mar 1942. Note the red and white rudder stripes that were authorized for only four months.	A-4 rocket being prepared for a test launch, Peenemünde, Germany, Mar 1942

Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting the Navy Cross to Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate Harold F. Dixon aboard USS Enterprise at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Mar 1942.	Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder, and Wilhelm Keitel, Germany, Mar 1942	Aerial gunners of 3rd Bomb Group, US 8th Bomb Squadron (Light) pose with an A-24 Banshee aircraft at Charters Towers, Australia, Jan-Mar 1942	After arriving in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in early Mar 1942, USS Trout crew members stacked 9 tons of gold bars and 13 tons of silver pesos evacuated from Corregidor, Philippines on the submarine’s deck for transfer to the USS Detroit.