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Japanese grenade discharger type 89 captured at Milne Bay, N.G. It will throw a 2 inch grenade approximately 250 yards and a shell 700 yards shown Dec...

Capt. Byron M. Shipley, of Albia, Iowa, center, examines a string of beads and does a little trading for trinkets to send back home while on a visit t...

British cruiser H.M.S. Mauritius, lies at anchor, on Dec. 24, 1942. (AP Photo)

The Netherlands Cruiser Helmskfrck, at full speed somewhere at sea, on Dec. 24, 1942. (AP Photo)

Wading jobs like this were a few of the hardships that confronted American infantrymen on their six-day trek to blast the Japanese at Buna on Dec. 18,...

The American soldier in front of the line filing over this narrow bridge near Buna was doing a tricky bit of footwork on Dec. 18, 1942. There was a si...

An American soldier moving up along the Buna road in New Guinea on Dec. 18, 1942 photographs a Japanese sign which fell by the way side after the Japa...

The daylight raid on Brest made by Royal Air Force bombers on Dec. 18, 1942. Targets were the Nazi pocket-battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, both...

What is described as a daylight raid by Royal Air Force heavy craft on the Nazi pocket battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Eug...

These Yanks with the American forces in India on Dec. 18, 1942 try to get "Mousie", their monkey mascot, to smile pretty for the cameraman - but "Mous...

American soldiers in the Buna front watch an exhausted Japanese prisoner on Dec. 18, 1942. (AP Photo/Edward Widdis)

H.M.S. Wells an ex-American destroyer now in the Royal Navy, laying a smoke screen, somewhere at sea, on Dec. 17, 1942. (AP Photo)

Engineer troops of the combined American and Australian forces under General MacArthur build a bridge in New Guinea on Dec. 15, 1942 for the passage o...

American and Australian troops, brothers in arms on New Guinea, cut a jeep trail through miles of jungles and across the Owen Stanley mountain range a...

Ammunition for three-inch trench mortars is loaded on the back of a pack carrier for transport to weapons set up in the jungles of New Guinea on Dec....

Transports which brought supplies and troops lying alongside the jetties and in the roadstead at Arzeu, near Oran, Algeria, on Dec. 9, 1942. (AP Photo...

Britain's Royal Navy had a major role in the world's greatest combined operation when the 500 ship convoy safely transported Allied troops to French N...

Ships of the British Royal Navy taking part in the successful transport of a great army with full equipment to the shores of French North Africa. A ca...

This unidentified British cruiser is passing through the Suez canal in Egypt, while ashore a guard unit watches on Dec. 8, 1942. (AP Photo)

Naval repairs in Alexandria, Egypt on Dec. 8, 1942. A tremendous task that goes on, day and night is the constant upkeep and repair of the patrols and...

Naval repairs in Alexandria, Egypt on Dec. 8, 1942. A tremendous task that goes on, day and night is the constant upkeep and repair of the patrols and...

Naval repairs in Alexandria, Egypt on Dec. 8, 1942. A tremendous task that goes on, day and night is the constant upkeep and repair of the patrols and...

Machinist's Mate James Le Grace, U.S.N., left, and Seaman Frank Ryan, right, wounded in the North African campaign, now back in America, listen to the...

Bos'n Mate Ernest Trimble, left, of Wichita, Kan., shows storekeeper First Class George Skinka, right, of Minneapolis, Minn., on Nov. 30, 1942, a sign...

Thomas Sortino, U.S.N., of Forest Park, Ill., whose landing boat was caught by two French destroyers during the Casablanca operation, relates his expe...

Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-chief Western Approaches, who is taking up a new appointment in the United States, said goodbye and expressed hi...

Lieut. F.T.R. Giles, A.D.S., to Lord Knollys, the governor of Bermuda, presents Mrs. Clementine Churchill with a cheque for L2,600 from Bermuda at 10...

Australian officers check design and gear of two Japanese tanks which were captured, apparently virtually intact, during the allied offensive in the M...

American and Australian soldiers check over every inch of two captured Japanese tanks somewhere in New Guinea, as allied forces closed in on Japanese...

American soldiers tread the stern gangplank of a Japanese landing barge in New Guinea on Nov. 17, 1942. Japanese got ashore, but never reboarded the c...

Modern destroyers are considerably larger and self-contained than their predecessors of the war, but they are more complicated and spend longer period...

U.S. soldier Pvt. Bill Shipman of Massillon, Ohio, left, dresses up in a native grass costume and is fed an Army biscuit by PFC John D. Arnold, of Arb...

The equipment that is carried by British Gliders to the scene of attack during airborne operations. Glider troops unloading bicycles from a glider, du...

Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham shown Nov. 9, 1942, commands the big Allied fleet which has conducted the expedition that landed troops of the American a...

Red Cross Nurse Mary Black Fraser, of Algona, Iowa, removes a small bit of London, England, from the eye of Second Class Pharmacist's Mate Fred Emanue...

Playing an important role in the fierce United Nations drive on the Axis forces in the Western Desert on Nov. 6, 1942, are U.S. 'Gen. Sherman' tanks,...

Captured Japanese mountain gun being looked over by American and Australian soldiers in November 1942, gun was later fired up and used on the Japanese...

British cruisers operating in the Mediterranean on Oct. 21, 1942. (AP Photo)

Shirtless under the tropical sun, Allied troops wield picks as they build a road over hilly terrain in New Guinea on Oct. 21, 1942. (AP Photo/Pool)

Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects the ship's company of H.M.S. Scylla in London on Oct. 21, 1942, rear Admiral Burnett's flagship during the r...

A U.S. Navy chaplain intones the last prayer just before the Stars and Stripes are removed from the coffin of a U.S. seaman killed in the action in th...

Japanese prisoner captured at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea on Oct. 15, 1942. Left to Right are Sgt. Max Jones, Australian; Japanese prisoner and Corp...

Japanese prisoner captured at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea on Oct. 15, 1942. Left to Right are Sgt. Max Jones, Australian; Japanese prisoner and Corp...

Japanese prisoner captured at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea on Oct. 15, 1942. Sgt. Jones questions prisoner about photographs found on him. Photos wer...

During visit to children's camp at Pierre Follet near Vichy on Oct. 15, 1942 where vacation of many French children was paid for by American Red Cross...

Members of New Guinea Scouts of the Australian Army form setting for Japanese field standard left behind in a rapid retreat after clash with the Scout...

Australian soldiers at Papua examine equipment thrown away in the hasty retreat of Japanese who staged an unsuccessful sortie from Salamaua. Four figh...

A sailor and his girl are apparently getting away from the crowd by occupying the middle section of the stands to watch the Marquette-Kansas Universit...

The way of a sailor with lass is the same the world over, and these U.S. sailors in Northern Ireland on Sept. 19, 1942 are losing no time in escorting...

An American soldier, left, and an Australian trooper examine Japanese Arms, a flag, some money, and Odd and Ends of equipment captured by United Natio...