Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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PBM-3C Mariner aircraft of US Navy patrol squadron VP-203 at Naval Air Station Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 12 Mar 1943	African-American US Navy S2c Carlton J. Dearborn building balsam model of Stuka dive bomber, US Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, US, 13 Mar 1943; model to be used in aircraft id training	Aerial view of William Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 15 Mar 1943	Battleship USS Texas off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 15 Mar 1943

US personnel in the Pacific checking their map on a Willys MB slat-grille Jeep, 15 Mar 1943	USS Essex leaving Norfolk, Virginia, United States, for shakedown exercises, 15 Mar 1943.	SBD-4 & SBD-5 Dauntlesses join USAAF as A-24A Banshees at Douglas Aircraft Co’s El Segundo Plant, Mar 16 1943. Note two experimental XSB2D-1 torpedo bomber prototypes against the back fence 3 weeks before its maiden flight.	This TBF-1 Avenger attempted to land on the carrier USS Charger but missed the arresting wires and ended up tangled in the port catwalk, Chesapeake Bay, United States, 16 Mar 1943. Note US Coast Guard boats alongside.

Track chart featuring the movements of USS Nicholas during the action of 16 Mar 1943 in Kula Gulf, Solomon Islands.	At the White House 18 Mar 1943, Henry Kaiser, right, and President Franklin Roosevelt looking at a model of a Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier, then under construction at Kaiser’s Vancouver, Washington shipyard.	B5N Type 97 torpedo bomber landing on Japanese carrier Shokaku, South Pacific, 18 Mar 1943	General Dwight Eisenhower sharing a lighter moment with four US Army soldiers in Tunisia, 18 Mar 1943.

Keel of USS Cassin Young at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, San Pedro, California, United States, 18 Mar 1943	King George VI of the United Kingdom aboard HMS Glasgow at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18-21 Mar 1943	US B-24D bomber approaching Eastern Island, Midway Atoll for landing, 18 Mar 1943; note albatrosses in foreground	Concord off Panama Canal Zone, 19 Mar 1943, 1 of 2

Concord off Panama Canal Zone, 19 Mar 1943, 2 of 2	USS Essex on her shakedown cruise, 20 Mar 1943, with F6F aircraft in foreground and SBD in the back	German 7.5 cm PaK 40 camouflaged in snowy terrain, Russia, 21 Mar 1943	Göring, Keitel, Dönitz, Himmler, Milch, Bock, Oberlindober, and other German leaders at a ceremony to honor those who died in combat, Berlin, Germany, 21 Mar 1943