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Captured Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Changde, Hunan Province, China, Nov-Dec 1943	Chinese troops, Changde, Hunan Provice, China, Nov-Dec 1943	Corsair Mk II fighter of British No. 1830 Naval Air Squadron landing aboard HMS Illustrious, Dec 1943	Corsair Mk II fighter of British No. 1833 Naval Air Squadron landing aboard HMS Illustrious, Dec 1943

Cruiser Yahagi off Sasebo, Japan, Dec 1943	Douglas MacArthur with Native American troops somewhere in the South Pacific, late 1943	F4U-1 Corsair in Marine Fighting Squadron 214 (the “Black Sheep”) on the Marsden matting at Torokina airstrip, Bougainville, Solomons, Dec 1943.	F4U-1A Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-216 taxis down the strip at Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Dec 1943. Note TBM Avengers and NE-1 Grasshoppers parked along the strip.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, France, Dec 1943	German aircraft being sprayed with white paint for winter camouflage, Eastern Europe, Dec 1943; note Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber in background	German SdKfz 10/4 halftrack vehicle with 2-cm FlaK 38 gun, somewhere in the Soviet Union, Nov-Dec 1943	German soldier and war dog beneath a coastal gun, France, Nov-Dec 1943

German soldiers with MG42 machine gun, Yugoslavia, Dec 1943	Heavy cruiser Canberra underway, circa late 1943	Jeeps driving in muddy terrain, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 1943	Joseph Stalin, Mohammad-Reza Shah, and Vyacheslav Molotov, Tehran, Iran, late Nov or early Dec 1943

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon in flight, Dec 1943. The Harpoon was an upgraded variant of the PV-1 Ventura with 25% more wing area.	M3 Gun Motor Carriage of US 7th Marine Regiment at Hill 660 on New Britain, Bismarck Islands,	Map of the Bethlehem San Pedro Shipyard from the Dec 1943 employee handbook. Note that the yard had only two shipways.	Marine Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, Commanding Officer of VMF-214 the “Black Sheep” and later Medal of Honor recipient, boards his F4U-1 Corsair at the Barakoma airstrip on Vella LaVella Island, Solomons, Dec 1943.