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Light Carrier USS Independence in port, 1943	Map of Peenemünde, Germany drawn by the British, Apr 1943	Marder II tank destroyer 'Kohlenklau' in Russia, spring 1943, photo 3 of 4	Marder II tank destroyer 'Kohlenklau' in Russia, spring 1943, photo 4 of 4

P-38G Lightning “Miss Virginia” after a belly landing at Fighter Strip #2, Kukum, Guadalcanal, Apr 1943. Days earlier, this plane, flown by Rex Barber, shot down the G4M bomber carrying Isoroku Yamamoto over Bougainville	Portrait of Eduard Dietl, Apr 1943	Profile view of destroyer USS Saufley in her 1943 Measure 22 blue and gray paint scheme. Note her two sets of torpedo tubes amidships. The radar and gun director antennas have been removed by the censors.	Prototype T-43 medium tank, 1943

Schematic drawing of the Mark XVIII torpedo from the US Navy Ordnance Pamphlet No. 946 dated Apr 1943.	Snapshot of “Major Martin’s” fiancée, Pam, that was part of the papers planted on his body as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942. In reality, this was an MI5 clerk named Jean Leslie.	Some of the effects included on “Major Martin’s” person as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942.	Submarine Escolar under construction at William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, Apr 1943

The corpse of Glyndŵr Michael fully dressed and outfitted as Major William Martin, Royal Marines just before being sealed in his air-tight canister as the central piece of Operation Mincemeat, London, England, Apr 1943.	Three African-American United States Marine Corps recruits running the obstacle course at Camp Lejeune of Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Apr 1943	Three P-38 Lightnings overfly the crew of a PBY-5A Catalina practicing the recovery of downed airmen, Solomons, 1942-43	Tiger I heavy tank of the German 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich' at Kharkov, Ukraine, Apr 1943, photo 1 of 2

Tiger I heavy tank of the German 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich' at Kharkov, Ukraine, Apr 1943, photo 2 of 2	Two African-American United States Marine Corps recruits training with a light tank, Montford Point Camp, North Carolina, United States, Apr 1943	United States Navy Photographers Mate Don Garber in his flying helmet ready for an aerial photography flight from USS Saratoga, circa 1943.	US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft of VB-136 squadron flying above the Aleutian Islands, Mar-Jun 1943