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American and R.A.A.F. pilots at an Allied air field in New Guinea on Sept. 16, 1942 take time out for a quick lunch after shooing away a Japanese atta...

Some New Guinea native police drill before typical New Guinea huts near the jungle and a U.S. jeep stands idly by on Sept. 14, 1942. Allied forces wer...

Native police stand at attention with rifles slightly askew in New Guinea on Sept. 14, 1942. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Native police go through their regular drill in the New Guinea jungle on Sept. 14, 1942 with typical New Guinea houses and a U.S. Army jeep in the bac...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, and Joseph Stalin share a joke during their historic conference in Moscow on Sept. 13, 1942. (AP Photo/Officia...

Fighting continued in the mountainous jungles of New Guinea on Sept. 13, 1942. This photo shows the type of country Allied forces are defending. Army...

British prisoners, captured during the raid, being led, trouserless, up the beach in charge of a German wearing a thick jersey during Dieppe "Combined...

A destroyer of the Voltaclass, extremely good ship. Same type as the Sircco, French destroyer who sunk three German subs and was sunk itself during Du...

A Vichy French patrol ship, used on convoy duty, is moored at Casablanca, French Morocco on Sept. 5, 1942, where the battleship Jean Bart and other Vi...

Sub commanders all are these Allied naval men from the British French Dutch and Norwegian units at a British base on August 31, 1942. (AP Photo)

Wreckage left by German bombers during the Nazi advance on France in 1940. German soldiers picking through wreckage. Amiens cathedral is in background...

The British capital has been invaded by a friendly army of American sailors. Their leave was short, so it meant crowding the minutes to see the sights...

Corporal Richard Burian on Allentown, Pa., plays piano accompaniment for machinist's mate Arthur Bell of San Diego, Calif., who is broadcasting a song...

Fireman John Kricket of Marlton, N.J., has his shoes shined in Leicester Square in London on August 5, 1942 during his short leave in the British capi...

U.S. Seaman 2nd class Bill Minton of Trenton, N.J., center, makes a metal identity disc at an automatic machine in a fun fair in London on August 5, 1...

In the Soho quarter of London U.S. sailors Alexander E. Paluch of Sayreville, N.J., left, and Thomas Lanzillo of Cambridge, Mass., halt for a couple o...

Seaman 2nd Class Alexander E. Paluch of Sayreville, N.J., left, and Seaman 2nd Class Thomas Lanzillo of Cambridge, Mass., listen to 74-year-old Boer W...

A couple of Uncle Sam's seagoing fighting men, on leave from their warship, made a peaceful invasion of London, visiting historic sights, St. James' P...

English women have been hired by U.S. Naval units in Great Britain to serve as chauffeurs. The women, formerly in British transport service, wear the...

A pair of signalmen, Jay Miller, Detroit, Mich., left, and Frank Dombarcik, Cleveland, O., tour Westminster with Miss Bella Simons in London on August...

A quartet of U.S. gobs on shore leave from the American task force serving with the British home fleet chat with a London bobb beneath the Royal Stand...

On leave in London on August 2, 1942, two sailors of the U.S. Task Force, Signalman Frank Dombarcik of Cleveland, O., left, and Signalman Jay Miller o...

Amiens German bombing destroyed Amiens, but German Surety of aim saved the cathedral shown August 1942. (AP Photo)

London tag day seller finds read customers in sailors from U.S. fleet on shore leave in London on July 28, 1942. They were second batch to get liberty...

Australian troops manning strategic points along their coastline, keeping a look out for surprise night raiders, an Australian searchlight sweeps the...

New Zealanders serving with the Eighth Army have established a reputation for extreme accuracy with their 25-pounder guns. A New Zealand crew firing i...

Q-trucks of the desert is a not inapt a term for the trucks mounting anti-tank guns which are used as highly mobile, hard-hitting artillery units. The...

This is the lunge of the Hospital corps at the Norfolk Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va., on July 22, 1942. These men are expert medical technicians a...

From left to right are Mrs. Clementine Churchill, Mrs. Eden, Mrs. John G. Winant at the opening of the new information center for Americans, in Londo...

American sailors gather about the automobiles which will take them on a sightseeing trip of Cape Town in South Africa on July 13, 1942. The tour was s...

When their ships tied up at Table Bay in February, American gobs were taken by South African Women's Auxiliary Service members to various historic lan...

Mrs. Robin Byng tells American sailors and a South African Women's Auxiliary Service member how wine is distilled at the Alpen vineyard in Cape Town,...

If the crew of a British destroyer are able to make themselves comfortable, they don't bother to sling hammocks. Three of the crew are here curled up...

The wearer of the overalls is making a gauge test in the destroyer's engine room at British warship on July 7, 1942. The ship's engineer, left, is a s...

A British destroyer lays a smoke screen during a towing exercise to give crews practice in towing disabled or prize ships at British warship on July 7...

At the first sign of the enemy the gun crews spring into action. This is the forward gun outfit going into action on July 7, 1942 at British warship....

The arduous and perilous task of guarding a convoy to port falls to the lot of the swift and highly-maneuverable destroyer. In this case it is a Briti...

Torpedo being loaded on a U-boat, at Casablanca, French Morocco in July 1942. (AP Photo)

A French destroyer (center) and cruiser (right) lie moored at Casablanca, French Morocco, in July, 1942. (AP Photo)

Equipped with a ground unit of a plant-to-field radio, Prime Minister Winston Churchill hears orders being given paratroopers he reviewed on a surpris...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, watching military show in Fort Jackson, S.C., on June 27, 1942. (AP Photo)

Their necks craned skyward, Gen. George C. Marshall, United States Army Chief of Staff, explains maneuvers of American parachute troops to Prime Minis...

Listening to their orders and watching their parachutes unfold, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill (in panama hat) reviews paratroops at Fort...

Fort Jackson, America's largest Army Infantry training post, shot the works in a mighty all-out training maneuver for the benefit of England's Prime M...

In serious conference with U.S. Army Chiefs as they attended a demonstration of U.S. Army paratroops in action at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on June...

Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister, gives United States army parachutists the once-over while visiting Fort Jackson, South Carolina on June 2...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, General George C. Marshall, U.S. Chief of Staff and between them in distance is secretary of war He...

Squinting and making binoculars of his hands, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain strings to watch United States Army Paratroops floatin...

Opening the floor fight over the Smith-Connally Bill to outlaw strikes, Rep. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) declares in the House of Representatives in Washing...

Gunners in action aboard a British destroyer firing a rapid shoot at sea from the 4" after gun on April 28, 1942. (AP Photo)