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Otto Skorzeny escorting Benito Mussolini to the aircraft which would extricate him from the Hotel Campo Imperatore in Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	Otto Skorzeny, Harald Mors, and Benito Mussolini in front of Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 4	Otto Skorzeny, Harald Mors, and Benito Mussolini in front of Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 4	Otto Skorzeny, Harald Mors, and Benito Mussolini in front of Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 3 of 4

Otto Skorzeny, Harald Mors, and Benito Mussolini in front of Hotel Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 4 of 4	Smoke rising from a German DFS 230 C-1 glider as it was set on fire by German glider troopers, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	Unclear photograph taken at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	US Navy ordinancemen loading a Mark XIII torpedo into the bomb bay of a TBM Avenger aboard USS Lexington (Essex-class) while steaming south of Hawaii, 12 Sep 1943. Note the hand operated winches lifting the torpedo.

USS Ancon (background), HM LST-404, and other ships off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	USS Ancon off Salerno, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	View at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 2	View at Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 2

View of Hotel Campo Imperatore and a landed German DFS 230 glider, Gran Sasso, Italy, 12 Sep 1943	German troops and R75 motorcycle deployed in support of the Gran Sasso raid to free Benito Mussolini, Abruzzo, Italy, 13 Sep 1943	US Army infantrymen fighting in the jungles of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 13 Sep 1943	Army MGen Maxwell Murray and VAdm Aubrey Fitch at the Luganville Airfield at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides awaiting first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her tour of the South Pacific on behalf of the Red Cross, 14 Sep 1943.

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt upon arrival at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides during her tour of the South Pacific on behalf of the Red Cross, 14 Sep 1943. She is flanked by VAdm Aubrey Fitch and MGen Maxwell Murray.	First lady Eleanor Roosevelt visiting combat wounded in a United States Navy field hospital at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides during her tour of the South Pacific on behalf of the Red Cross, 14 Sep 1943.	First lady Eleanor Roosevelt, center, upon arrival at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides during her tour of the South Pacific on behalf of the Red Cross, 14 Sep 1943. Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch is to her left.	HMS Royal Sovereign underway off Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 14 Sep 1943