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Light cruiser USS Nashville bombarding Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 7 Aug 1942	M2A4 Stuart tank being hoisted from USS Alchiba into a LCM(2) landing craft, off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7 Aug 1942	Sherman and Noyes on Wasp's port bridge wing off Guadalcanal, 7 Aug 1942	Track chart from the shelling of Kiska Island by the cruiser USS St. Louis, 7 Aug 1942.

USS Saratoga (foreground) and USS Enterprise (background) underway in the Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi. Photo 1 of 2	Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi. Photo 2 of 2	Japanese G4M aircraft making a torpedo run against the American Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion force, 8 Aug 1942

Saburo Sakai being helped out of his aircraft after he made a 4+ hour flight to base with a serious injuries, Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942	US Marine Corps LVT(1) amphibian tractors moving toward Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7-9 Aug 1942; note USS President Hayes in background	USS President Jackson (foreground) and HMAS Australia (background) maneuvering between Tulagi and Guadalcanal, 8 Aug 1942; photograph taken by personnel aboard USS Ellet	Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Russia camouflaged with images of false buildings, 9 Aug 1942

Chicago maneuvered off Tulagi, 9 Aug 1942, as seen from destroyer Ellet	Quincy illuminated by Japanese searchlights during Battle of Savo Island, 9 Aug 1942	Track of the cruiser night action of 9 Aug 1942 off Savo Island, Solomon Islands where three United States cruisers and one Australian cruiser were lost. Track is taken from the USS Astoria damage report.	USS Blue (near HMAS Canberra's port bow) and USS Patterson (approaching from astern) removing the crew from the fatally damaged HMAS Canberra (background), off Guadalcanal, about 0630 hours on 9 Aug 1942

USS Wolverine during trials on Lake Erie, 9 Aug 1942, photo 1 of 2; photo taken by the Buffalo, New York police department	USS Wolverine during trials on Lake Erie, 9 Aug 1942, photo 2 of 2; photo taken by the Buffalo, New York police department	A Humber Mk II armoured car of 4th Light Armoured Brigade on patrol in the Western Desert, Egypt, 10 Aug 1942	A Humber Mk II armoured car of the UK 12th Royal Lancers on patrol in the Western Desert, Egypt, 10 Aug 1942