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Following attendance at pontifical mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Feb. 28, 1943, one hundred sailors from the French battleship Richel...

Japanese warehouse burning at Buna Mission on Feb. 27, 1943. (AP Photo)

A general view at City Hall in New York on Feb. 23, 1943 during the reception there in honor of Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fenard, head of the French nav...

Two companies of French marines, carrying bayoneted rifles, march up lower Broadway, ahead of French sailors, as they participated in ceremonies and r...

French marines from the French cruiser Montcalm, which is docked in Philadelphia, marching in the parade "Freedom for France Day," in New York, N.Y.,...

Shouldering bayoneted rifles, French marines from the cruiser Montcalm march ahead of other marines and French sailors as they head up Broadway from t...

Private Kenneth C. Lawson, of Ararat, Va., gets a kick out of the comics but they are just a puzzle to the observing natives at this post in the Naga...

A depth charge exploding astern of a British destroyer during an attack on an enemy submarine, somewhere at sea, on Feb. 19, 1943. (AP Photo)

Sailors in the crew of the French battleship Richelieu, arrived in U.S. waters from Dakar, roll a barrel of wine on the deck in New York Harbor on Feb...

French cruiser Montcalm, which escorted battleship Richelieu from Dakar, is now located at Philadelphia Navy Yard on Feb. 17, 1943. Marine lined up on...

Seamen from the French cruiser Montcalm pay attention to U.S. seamen's antics as he instructs them in the finer points of "Rug Cutting" at a St. Valen...

Held by two sailors on the French cruiser Montcalm at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on Feb. 17, 1943, the two white cats and their black-and-white cousin...

Officers of the free French navy are being trained in British waters in a ship formerly famed as a scientific research ship. The vessel is the Preside...

The British Corvette HMS Anchusa during one of her brief spells in port on Feb. 16, 1943. Corvettes are playing a constant and notable part in the dri...

Officers of the free French Navy are being trained in British waters in a ship formerly famed as a scientific research ship. The vessel is the Preside...

An American and the Japanese he killed near Buna mission, Papua New Guinea on Feb. 13, 1943. Pfc Wally Wakeman says "I was walking down the lane when...

Men of the U.S. 32nd division task force examine trophies during a brief rest period after the capture of Buna on Feb. 12, 1943. Men in the foreground...

These U.S. sailors assigned to a lonely outpost on New Caledonia in France on Feb. 10, 1943 have borrowed horses from the Army for the purpose of carr...

Bearded seamen, kneeling beneath the deck gun of a U.S. submarine back in port after raids on Japanese shipping which netted two war ships and two mer...

A striking view of the free French naval training ship L'etoile on Feb. 10, 1943, to which the cadets transfer for further training from the President...

Regarding some of landmarks off a city in India on Feb. 9, 1943 from the roof of the U.S. Officer's Club are, left to right: 2nd Lieutenant Lucy Wainw...

A helmeted U.S. trooper looks over a Japanese landing barge and the bodies of three Nipponese soldiers who were killed trying to land in it on beach a...

Wearing battledress, Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, visited Benghazi where he made a tour of inspection. Ad...

First Officer Louise Anderson of Denver, Colo, a WAAC, only woman at the historic conference of President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winsto...

French sailors enjoy themselves at a sidewalk cafe in Dakar on Jan. 28, 1943. (AP Photo)

Japanese soldier standing in water committed "Hari Kari" when he tapped a hand grenade he's holding in his hand on his head rather than surrender to t...

Sgt. Douglas Radney of Texas, on duty somewhere in India on Jan. 25, 1943, bounces a little chap on his knee while the boy's father looks on. The chil...

The New York atmosphere was present as Jim and Nikki dropped in a restaurant in Casablanca for a snack on Jan. 23, 1943. Papa Gorim, center, the chief...

Jim and Nikki are interested spectators as a native dancer extends his cap in Casablanca on Jan. 23, 1943 while the local musicians strike up a tune s...

An American cigarette on the shore at Sidi Abd-er-Rahman, a few miles south of Casablanca on Jan. 23, 1943, tops off a picnic lunch of canned, sardine...

Jim, an American Naval officer stationed at Casablanca, French Morocco on Jan. 23, 1943, and Nikki, a girl who lives there, go for a stroll through a...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Army, Australian and American bombers blasted this Japanese airport at Buna, Papua New Guinea on Jan. 22, 1943, mak...

Above is Staff Sgt. Wilbur E. Brandt, Cleveland, Ohio, one of the Yanks in India getting his shave in bed before reveille from an Indian barber named...

Members of the U.S. forces line up alongside of a native hut in New Guinea on Jan. 14, 1943. From left to right: (front row) Lt. Zina R. Carter, of St...

American and Australian soldiers work together in carrying food out to men in front-line foxholes in Sanananda front, Papua New Guinea on Jan. 14, 194...

U.S. Soldiers looking over Japanese supply dump captured in Buna area on Jan. 14, 1943. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of the U.S. Army, after taking part in the fighting relax by playing cards in a palm grove behind the lines at Buna, New Guinea on Jan. 13, 1...

U.S. soldiers look aloft from a clearing in the New Guinea jungles on the Buna front on Jan. 13, 1943 to watch an Allied plane cross the sky in the ga...

Pfc. Everett Peterson, of Green Bay, Wisc., examines a captured Japanese machine gun in a bunker near Simemi Creek, in the Buna sector of New Guinea o...

Lt. Harold Evans, of Robersonville, N.C., uses a bayonet kept at razor sharpness, to give Lt. Henry Gibbs, Morehead City, N.C., a shave in New Guinea...

American troops scramble across a bridge in New Guinea on Jan. 12, 1943 which has been damaged by Japanese artillery and machine gun fire. This was on...

The first army clash with the enemy north of Bou Arada-one of the battles which preceded the capture of Tunis. First Army troops advancing across a co...

While our newly won positions around Chaouach were being consolidated on April 12th patrols were probing the country around Heidous to din the enemy's...

Corp. Mike Shop of Kansas City, Mo., while on leave in New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942, decided to climb a cocoanut palm native fashion. He got up to the...

Japanese anti-tank gun 37 mm, type 94, 1934 model, fires either HE or armor piercing shells shown at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. The...

Japanese machine gun 7.7 MM, type 92, 1932 model captured at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

Japanese machine gun 7.7 MM, type 92, 1932 model captured at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

Japanese machine gun 7.7 MM, type 92, 1932, model captured at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

Bullet proof vest captured at Milne Bay, N.G., shown Dec. 29, 1942. There are six armor plates inserted in pockets in the front and this particular ve...

Bullet proof vest captured at Milne Bay, N.G., shown Dec. 29, 1942. There are six armor plates inserted in pockets in the front and this particular ve...