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HMS Victorious refueling from a US Navy Fleet Oiler about Aug 1943. This was during the period Victorious was on loan to the US Fleet. Note US F4F Wildcats and TBM Avengers on the flight deck.	Horst Grund and other photo journalists atop a flak tower at the Strait of Messina, Italy, Aug 1943	Horst Grund filming, circa Aug 1943	Italian L6/40 light tank in Yugoslavia, Aug 1943

Japanese Type 91 40mm anti-aircraft gun at Munda Point, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Aug 1943	Japanese Type 94 anti-tank gun crew dead in a gun pit after the Battle for Munda Point on New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Aug 1943	Kikuzuki under salvage in Halavo Bay, Florida Island, near Tulagi, Aug 1943	King and Roosevelt, Quadrant Conference, Aug 1943

Lieutenant David McClintock, Commander David White, and Lieutenant Charles Nace dining in the wardroom aboard USS Cero while the submarine was at Groton, Connecticut, United States, Jul-Aug 1943	Looking forward along deck from stern of USS Marlin, off coast of New London, Connecticut, United States, Aug 1943	Lunch time at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943; 2,750 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were built by Vega during WW2	M3 Half-Track mounted with two 3-tube rocket launchers at the Bengal Air Depot near Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, 1942-45.

M3 light tanks of US 9th Marine Defense Battalion near the base of Bibilo Hill, Munda, New Georgia, Aug 1943	Mail call on the fantail of the USS Nicholas, 1943. Note the barrel of No. 5 5-inch/38 gun mount at left and smoke generators between the two depth charge racks at the stern.	Man working on hull of US submarine at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, Aug 1943	Map noting the Allied advances in Sicily, Italy, 12 Jul to 17 Aug 1943

Marder III Ausf. H tank destroyer during Battle of Kursk, Russia, summer 1943	Me 323 Gigant heavy transport at rest, Aug 1943	Me 323 Gigant heavy transport at rest, circa 1940s; aircraft in background appeared to be He 111 medium bombers	Officers and men at the bridge of USS Cero, Groton, Connecticut, United States, Jul-Aug 1943