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Hornet in South Pacific, 15 May 1942, a week after the Battle of Coral Sea and the day before she was recalled to Pearl Harbor to prepare for the Battle of Midway.	TBD Devastator torpedo bomber on the flight deck of USS Hornet, circa 15 May 1942	Winston Churchill, H. V. Evatt, Clement Attlee, Roderick Carr, and an unidentified officer during a visit to a Yorkshire-based Halifax squadron of the Royal Air Force, 15 May 1942	Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Major-General Brian Horrocks aboard a Covenanter tank of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, British 27th Armoured Brigade near Newmarket, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, 16 May 1942; note H. V. Evatt in second tank

Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Major-General Brian Horrocks inspecting British 9th Armoured Division atop a Covenanter tank of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, new Newmarket, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, 16 May 1942	Submarine Gunnel at sea off Groton, Connecticut, United States, 17 May 1942	BL 15 in coastal gun of the Wanstone Battery, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, England, United Kingdom, 18 May 1942, photo 1 of 2	BL 15 in coastal gun of the Wanstone Battery, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, England, United Kingdom, 18 May 1942, photo 2 of 2

Wildcat took off from Enterprise's flight deck, 18 May 1942	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.	American soldiers resting during the Bataan death march, May 1942, photo 1 of 3	American soldiers resting during the Bataan death march, May 1942, photo 2 of 3

American soldiers resting during the Bataan death march, May 1942, photo 3 of 3	Chinese and Indian soldiers in Burma, 20 May 1942	Dead American soldiers on the Bataan death march, 1942	School teacher in Taiwan in group photograph with his students shortly after receiving conscription orders from the Japanese authorities, 21 May 1942

SOC-3A Seagull aircraft catapulted from escort carrier Long Island, 21 May 1942	Comrades of Rifleman John Beeley of 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross at Battle of Sidi Rezegh on 21 Nov 1941 are working on his cross, 22 May 1942.	AVG squadron flight leader Robert 'R. T.' Smith standing next to his P-40 Warhawk fighter, Kunming, China, 23 May 1942; note Nationalist Chinese emblem on cap and 'Flying Tigers' emblem on aircraft	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