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US Army Air Force pilot Captain Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. climbing into a Vultee AT-6 Texan aircraft, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, Jan 1942	US Sailors examine wreckage of Japanese Aichi D3A “Val” dive bomber that crashed during Pearl Harbor attack, Dec 1941	USS North Carolina and USS Hornet, Jan 1942	USS San Diego and USS San Juan, Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, Jan 1942

View of Naval Air Station Ford Island, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Jan or Feb 1942; note J2F Duck, JRS, OS2U, and R3D (tail only) aircraft, USS Curtiss, and Northampton-class cruisers	Waves splashing onto the bow of cruiser London, circa early 1942, probably as she hunted for German battleship Tirpitz	Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, British Ambassador Lord Halifax, and Chinese Ambassador Song Ziwen with US President Franklin Roosevelt, Washington DC, United States, 1 Jan 1942	Female workers in a factory in Leningrad, Russia, 1 Jan 1942

Leningrad after a German air raid, Russia, 1 Jan 1942	The hulls of destroyers Nicholas (left) and O’Bannon (right) under construction at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, United States, 1 Jan 1942. These two ships would be side-by-side for much of their careers.	Walter Nash, Lord Halifax, Song Ziwen, Alexander Loudon, and Manuel Quezon with Franklin Roosevelt, Washington DC, United States, 1 Jan 1942	Canadians pulling the wreckage of a Digby Mark I aircraft out of Freshwater Bay at Dover, Dominion of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), after the plane crashed into the bay on 2 Jan 1942

Pilots of No. 3 Squadron RAAF discussing operational plans outside their tents in Libya's western desert, 2 Jan 1942	President Hayes and USS New Mexico at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 2 Jan 1942	Laffey fitting out at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, 3 Jan 1942; note San Francisco's skyline in background	BL 9.2 inch Mk X coastal defense gun at Gibraltar, 4 Jan 1942

USS Ballard at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 5 Jan 1942; note submarines under construction, probably Wahoo and Whale	USS Milwaukee off the New York Navy Yard, United States, 7 Jan 1942	View of USS Milwaukee's forward superstructure, at New York Navy Yard, United States, 7 Jan 1942	Wasp off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States following overhaul, 8 Jan 1942