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Torpedo damage to the Canadian freighter SS Fort Camosun from an attack by Japanese submarine I-25 off Cape Flattery, Washington, United States, 20 Jun 1942. The ship was repaired and returned to service.	Two Russian women in the ruins of Stalingrad, Russia, Aug 1942	United States Marine preparing to throw a Mark II “pineapple” grenade on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942. Note Browning Automatic Rifle at left.	US Army Sergeant Vineyard showing his rifle to civilian welder George Woolslayer and US Navy enlisted man John Evans at Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Aug 1942

US fleet sailing toward Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, early Aug 1942; note USS Saratoga at center, New Orleans-class heavy cruiser in background, USS Enterprise in foreground	US Navy ordnanceman Jesse Rhodes Waller posing with a M1919 Browning machine gun next to a PBY Catalina aircraft, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942, photo 1 of 3	US Navy ordnanceman Jesse Rhodes Waller posing with a M1919 Browning machine gun next to a PBY Catalina aircraft, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942, photo 2 of 3	US Navy ordnanceman Jesse Rhodes Waller posing with a M1919 Browning machine gun next to a PBY Catalina aircraft, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942, photo 3 of 3

US Navy sailor J. D. Estes posing with a Browning M2 machine gun, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942	US Navy sailor wearing protective clothing, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug 1942	USS Ranger underway in 1942 painted in the unusual Measure 12 paint scheme.	USS Wolverine during her fitting out period, summer 1942; note steamer Greater Buffalo nearby

Vehicles on a ferry dock on the Volga River near Stalingrad, Russia, Aug 1942	Warhawk aircraft in flight, May 1942-Jan 1943	Wrecked KV-1 tank, Stalingrad, Russia, Aug 1942, photo 1 of 3	Wrecked KV-1 tank, Stalingrad, Russia, Aug 1942, photo 2 of 3

Wrecked KV-1 tank, Stalingrad, Russia, Aug 1942, photo 3 of 3	Aerial view of Ford Island from over Pearl City Peninsula looking toward Diamond Head in the distance, 1 Aug 1942. Escort carrier USS Long Island and Yorktown-class carrier USS Hornet are moored to Ford Island.	Map of installations in the Aleutian Island Area as of 1 Aug 1942, prepared for the United States Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Combat Narrative report. Note that Attu and Kiska were listed as Japanese held.	Soviet naval infantry signal troops setting up communication wires, Stalingrad, Russia, 1 Aug 1942