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False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.	Female African-American shipyard worker Anna Bland working on Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver at Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, Apr 1943	Female African-American Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter, Flossie Burtos, and another unidentified worker working on the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver, Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, Apr 1943	Female African-American worker Eastine Cowner working on Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver, Kaiser Richmond No. 1 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, Apr 1943

Female munitions factory workers, Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, Apr 1943	German discovery of the Katyn mass grave, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, Apr 1943, photo 1 of 2	German discovery of the Katyn mass grave, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, Apr 1943, photo 2 of 2	German Marder II tank destroyer 'Kohlenklau' in Russia, spring 1943, photo 1 of 4

German Marder II tank destroyer 'Kohlenklau' in Russia, spring 1943, photo 2 of 4	German officers and Tiger I heavy tanks of the 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich' during an inspection by Heinrich Himmler, near Kharkov, Ukraine, Apr 1943	German PzKpfw VI Tiger I heavy tank in Russia, either in a defensive position or stuck in an anti-tank ditch, spring 1943	German Tiger I heavy tank in Tunisia, Apr-May 1943

Heinrich Himmler inspecting Panzer Division 502 of German SS Division 'Das Reich' at Kharkov, Ukraine, Apr 1943; also present were Walter Krüger and Paul Hausser	HMS Rodney firing her primary weapons in exercise, western Mediterranean Sea, Apr 1943	Horst Grund with his mother Marie Elisabeth Grund by the Isar River in Landshut, southern Germany, Apr 1943	Identity card for Captain (acting Major) William Martin, Royal Marines; one of the fictitious documents created as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.

Italian BR.20 bomber recognition guide as seen in US War Department 'Recognition Pictorial Manual' publication FM 30-30, circa Apr 1943	Japanese 8-in gun on southwest point of Betio, Tarawa Atoll, circa early- to mid-1943	Japanese troops sighting an 8-in artillery, circa early- to mid-1943	Lieutenant General George Patton in North Africa, 1943