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Axis soldiers wounded in the second British advance into the Libyan desert lie on stretchers in a small boat while Davits are made ready to swing it...

Smashed German and Italian Planes litter the Derna Airport after RAF fliers staged an air attack, to soften the way for land troops in Libya, Jan. 21,...

British soldiers, carrying a wounded companion on a stretcher, found the going touch in the rocky terrain of halfway pass on the Libyan- Egyptian fron...

While attending a pageant depicting the Negro's contribution to America in New York on Jan. 11, 1942, Mrs.Eleanor Roosevelt talks to some of the Negro...

German and Italian prisoners rest on the ground after being captured by the British forces on the Libyan front, Dec. 23, 1941, according to British so...

This photographic mosaic taken on reconnaissance by the Royal Air Force some time ago shows Sidi Barrani and the surrounding country on Dec. 21, 1941....

The bewhiskered officer in center (carrying case) was identified by British sources in Cairo, as General Sebastino Gallina, Italian corps commander, t...

Dutch Meyer, Texas Christian Grid Coach, watches the backfield, which he expects to start against Georgia in the Orange Bowl, run through a workout on...

View of the city and harbor of Honolulu, on Oahu Island, Hawaii, which was the scene of the Japanese bombing raid, Dec. 7, 1941. Markers in the foreg...

Planes are lined up at Hickham Field, Air Corps post on Oahu, Hawaii. Reports said that a Japanese bomb struck the field. Washington made the announce...

University of Missouri's Darold Ward Jenkins is shown, Dec. 3, 1941. (AP Photo)

British soldiers load up the bomb racks of a Hurricane Bomber, Dec. 2, 1941 in Libya, according to British sources, for an attack on Axis Libyan Force...

British Bren gun in action on its carrier South of El Alamein, 1942. (AP Photo)

British Artillery goes into action against Axis force on the Libyan front, Nov. 24, 1941, According to British sources, in this official British pictu...

Australians setting up a camouflage covering for a tank, Nov. 12, 1941 in Tobruk, which is housed in a crater made by blowing up bombs left behind by...

A view showing part of the crowd of 85,753 persons, the largest that ever saw a game in Michigan Stadium, watching the football contest between Minnes...

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University of Georgia football coach Wallace Butts and Frankie Sinkwich in Oct. 18, 1941 at Atlanta. (AP Photo)

Officers and men manning cruiser and light tanks of the British army of the Nile shown, Oct. 18, 1941 in Tobruk, Libya, leaving their trench quarters...

A member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force rides a camel Oct. 12, 1941 in Cairo, Egypt. Many of the W.A.A.F are now on duty in the Middle East. In th...

Laurence Duggan, one of the U.S. State Department's executives, came to Havana to attend to a conference of diplomatic officers and consuls opening on...

German and Italian officers watching enemy movements along the Sollum front, Sept. 30, 1941 in Egypt. (AP Photo)

Sidelights of the life led by the British Garrison of Besieged Tobruk in North Africa are disclosed in this picture, Sept. 28, 1941. An Anti-Aircraft...

Robert Dove, of Notre Dame poses, Sept. 9, 1941. (AP photo)

Australian Troops in the Western Desert en route to reinforce the Garrison at Tobruk, British strong hold in Libya, Sept. 2, 1941, which has repelled...

Members of an Australian

The defenders of Tobruk are especially proud of the sunken H.M.S. Ladybird in the harbor, August 30, 1941 in Tobruk, Libya, which still has a

Native laborers, at an undisclosed Egyptian Port on July 29, 1941, unload from a United States transport American-made tires destined for use by the B...

Howard H. Jones, 55, Football Coach of the University of Southern California, died suddenly, July 27, 1941 in Los Angeles. Before coming to Southern C...

British South African troops salute with bayoneted rifles while Italian prisoners who surrendered at Fort Toseli, Eritrea, march past, July 2, 1941. (...

Battle for Amba Alagi, the last Italian stronghold in Eritrea, July 9, 1941. Italians who surrendered Fort Toselli, seen marching down the road from t...

An Australian soldier stands Guard on this lonely outpost surrounded by barbed wire on the Al Adam road approaching Tobruk, North African port besiege...

Tobruk is being strongly held by British and Imperial Forces, June 12, 1941. The main street in Tobruk still has a fairly Normal Military aspect and T...

Gunners man an Anti-Aircraft weapon in the British-held Fort at Tobruk, Libya, May 26, 1941, which has been under siege since Axis troops east from Be...

After beating big Buddy Bear in his 17th defense of the World's Heavyweight Title, the night before, Champion Joe Louis tees off for a round of golf a...

These guns fell into the hands of British and Indian troops when Italian army forces were driven from Agordat, Eritrea, on the east African front, May...

Indian soldiers fighting with the British forces in Eritrea examine trucks abandoned by retreating Italians in a Rocky Gorge, April. 22, 1941. The Bri...

British Troops attached to an Indian division in Eritrea carrying their daily ration of water to their observation post, April 20, 1941. (AP Photo)

The Germans said they captured these prisoners of war during the first active service of the Nazi tank corps on the Libyan front, April 11, 1941 in Li...

May Weber , noted American Painter, photo shown on March 25, 1941. (AP Photo)

New York's Fifth Avenue is crowded with people and traffic, but no buses since the bus strike, March 13, 1941. (AP Photo)

New York's Fifth Avenue is shown with pedestrians and traffic, March 13, 1941, but no buses since the bus strike began. (AP Photo)

A line of drop hammers shown operating at the Glenn Martin Plant, Baltimore, MD., March 6, 1941. These drop hammers form the contours of airplane part...

An Australian motorcyclist looks at two abandoned Italians tanks on road overlooking the Harbor of Bardia, Feb. 18, 1941. This is the type of territor...

Australian troops took advantage of the proximity of Sea Water after the fall of Bardia, Libyan Port which fell to the British during North African Ca...

Sign at the entrance to the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw

Australian Soldiers, right, take shelter in an anti-tank ditch built by Italian defenders as British shells (background) explode during the siege of B...

Two British tank officers, somewhere in North African war zone Jan. 28, 1941, grin at war cartoons in an Italian newspaper. One holds a mascot puppy f...

British soldiers engaged in the siege of Bardia, Libya, kneel in prayer in the desert at a sunrise mass Christmas Day, Jan. 27, 1941. Their coats are...

The body of an Italian native lies on the desert sand in foreground while British tanks move along in background, their shapes dimmed by swirling sand...