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Troops of PK XI. Fliegerkorps with a 5 cm PaK 38 anti-tank gun, Tunisia, 1943	Troops of the British Eastern Command, date unknown; note Bren gun, ammunition carrier dog 'Mark', and Lewis gun pan magazine	Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria with Adolf Hitler, 1943	Turkish officers studying a German Tiger I heavy tank in Ukraine, 1943

Two British Spitfire Mk IX fighters of No. 611 Squadron based at RAF Biggin Hill, London, England, United Kingdom, 1943	Two crew members loading ammunition for their A-26 bomber's M2 Browning machine guns, date unknown	Two German soldiers before a festive sign in German directing them to 'Edelweiss Cabin', Norway or Finland, 1943	Two men with the fire department at the US Army Medical Detachment 1340 facility, Fiji, 1942-1944

Two Panzer IV tank of the German 12th SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend' in Belgium or France, 1943	Two WAAF cooks at RAF St Eval preparing rations for Whitley aircraft crews of No. 502 Squadron RAF Coastal Command, Padstow, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 1940s; note box of oranges, an imported rarity	Type 1 Chi-He medium tanks being reviewed, circa 1943-1944	Type 1 Ho-Ni II tank destroyer, circa 1940s

Type 82 Kübelwagen stuck in muddy ruts left by tanks, 1940s	Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha / Type 97 Kai medium tank, circa 1940s	Typical 'Kilroy was here' drawing	Typical torpedo tube mounts for Japanese destroyers. Note that the tubes are encased in a turret to offer them some protection from gunfire or bomb fragments. Note also replacement torpedoes ready to be loaded (right).

U-821 under construction at the Oderwerke shipyard in Stettin, Germany, 1943	Ukrainian women of Sydir Kovpak's guerilla forces, Ukraine, 1940s; note Mosin-Nagant M1891 sniper rifles	Unidentified Japanese warship, 1941-1943	Unidentified photograph