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US Marine Corps N3N-3 Canary glider-towing biplane (Bureau Number 1777) at Page Field, Parris Island, South Caroline, United States, May 1942	US Marine paratroopers training on handling parachutes in heavy winds, Navy Auxiliary Air Station at Camp Kearny, California (now Miramar), 1942. Note rare R3D aircraft, only 12 such planes were made.	US Office of War Information photographer Alfred T. Palmer at US Marine Corps training base Parris Island, Port Royal, South Carolina, United States, May 1942	USS Helena at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, early- to mid-1942

USS Saratoga’s new captain, DeWitt Ramsey (in uniform) and former captain, Archibald Douglas, in a 1937 Cadillac touring car, probably Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, May 1942.	Young Japanese-American evacuees waiting their turn for baggage inspection at the Assembly Center in Turlock, California, 2 May 1942.	Launch party of Sunfish, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942	Launching of submarine Sunfish, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942

Stern of Sunfish, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942	Sunfish preparing for launch, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942	Sunfish shortly after launch, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942, photo 1 of 2	Sunfish shortly after launch, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942, photo 2 of 2

Destroyer USS Shaw ready to be undocked from Drydock No. 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States after being fitted with a new bow section, 3 May 1942.	USS Albacore in Measure 9 camouflage, off Groton, Connecticut, United States, 9 May 1942	LtCdr Franklin Karns preparing to take command of the destroyer USS Bailey upon commissioning at the New York Navy Yard, 11 May 1942. Yard commandant RAdm Edward Marquart is at the microphone.	Forward main guns of Gleaves-class destroyer USS Aaron Ward in Gravesend Bay, New York Harbor, 15 May 1942. The guns are single-mount 5”/38 caliber dual purpose guns in enclosed turrets. Note the 5” powder canisters alongside.

President Franklin Roosevelt presenting the Medal of Honor to Brigadier General James Doolittle for Doolittle’s role in leading a bomber attack on Tokyo one month earlier, White House, Washington DC, United States, 19 May 1942.	USS Quincy at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 23 May 1942; note her Measure 12 Modified camouflage scheme and British escort carrier HMS Biter in background	George Welch and his parents meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, Washington DC, United States, 25 May 1942	Louisville off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 26 May 1942