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An winding column of Chinese Nationalist Army troops marches along a road in the Yunnan province in Southwest China, under way to the Salween river fr...

A formation of U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolts is seen in flight over England, on June 12, 1943. (AP Photo)

Chinese Nationalist Army soldiers are seen in combat with Japanese occupation forces at the Salween river front, in the Yunnan province of Southwest C...

A wounded U.S. Marine is given a plasma transfusion by nurse Mae Olson, on June 4, 1943, aboard an aerial evacuation unit, over Guadalcanal, Solomon I...

This winding column of the Chinese Communist Armed forces, strung along a road in Yunnan Province, heads for the Salween River front near the Burman b...

The crew of a U.S. field artillery piece on Attu islands is seen in action against the Japanese occupation forces, in June 1943, during World War II....

Edvard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia in exile, stands beside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery at Arlington, Va....

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, greets Edvard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia in exile, in the Oval Room of the White House in Washing...

American invasion troops of the 7th Infantry Division approach a landing area code-named Beach Red in the western arm of Holtz Bay, on Japanese-occupi...

Ray Hayworth poses in this May 4, 1943 photo. (AP Photo)

Count Fleet, with jockey John Longden up, crosses the finish line to win the 69th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.,...

Crewmen aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) are seen from above as they dash to their stations when general quarters sound, during a drill on the new batt...

Pete Gray, outfielder for the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association, extends his left arm to catch a high fly ball on April 29, 1943. Gray lost...

Work Projects Administration workers are shown during construction in the United States on April 23, 1943. The WPA, part of president Roosevelt's New...

Under way in the Atlantic, coast guardsmen on deck of the USCG cutter Spencer watch the explosion of a depth charge, blasting the attempt of a German...

The frozen bodies of dead German soldiers lie sprawled across a roadside southwest from Stalingrad, on April 14, 1943. (AP Photo)

Slain members of a German gun crew lie beside their antiaircraft cannon, at an unknown battlefield along the German-Russian front between Voronezh and...

A U.S. patrol soldier watches movements in the desert from his position in a foxhole, in the El Guettar sector of Tunisia, in April 1943. (AP Photo)

A battery of British artillery guns pounds Axis positions in the Battle of the Gabes Gap, in southern Tunisia, in April 1943. (AP Photo)

A German 88mm dual-purpose gun is captured by the British army, at an unknown battlefield in Tunisia, in April 1943. (AP Photo)

Fiorello La Guardia is seen as a World War II aviator on March 27, 1943. (AP Photo)

A dead German soldier is still holding on to a hand grenade as he lies frozen in the snow, on a battlefield near Stalingrad, on March 22,1943. (AP Ph...

Inside the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in England, destroyed by German air raids in 1940, clergymen are forming a procession, March 12, 1943, during W...

Gary Cooper, right, sits next to columnist Louella Parsons at the 1943 annual Academy Awards presentation and dinner banquet at the Ambassador Hotel i...

People crowd outside New York's Paramount Theater on Broadway and 43rd St. to attend a screening of

Actor Jimmy Cagney, left, is congratulated by Gary Cooper after receiving the Oscar statuette at the 1942 Academy Awards banquet at Cocoanut Grove, Am...

Red Army soldiers in camouflage gear are seen on a snow-covered battlefield, somewhere along the German-Russian war front, as they advance against Ge...

German tanks are burning after a failed attack at an unknown location in southern Tunisia, in March 1943, during North Africa war operations in World...

After a German bomb attack on Newbury, Berkshire, on February 10, 1943, two elderly ladies are seen standing amid the remains of the almshouse which w...

The youngest victims of German bombs are seen at a children's hospital in Leningrad, February 9, 1943, during the 900-day blockade of the city by Germ...

An American jeep proceeds along a trail through the jungle on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on February 2, 1943, during World War II. (AP Photo)

An American M-5 light tank charges over a brush covered bunker during invasion of German-occupied North Africa in Feb. 1943 in World War II. (AP Phot...

U.S. Marines make their way through the jungle at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on January 26, 1943, during World War II. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines move up a hill on their way to the fighting front on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on January 16, 1943. (AP Photo)

This street scene shows the damage which resulted from air raids by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and U.S. Army Air Force (AAF) in July and Aug. 1...

This 1943 photo shows the extensive damage in the docks of Germany's most important port city Hamburg, caused by night air raids of the British RAF,...

A U.S. Air Force Vega-built Flying Fortress, below, also known as the B-17, is escorted over clouds by two Lightning P-38 fighter planes built by Lock...

This 1943 photo shows the extensive damage in the streets of Germany's most important port city Hamburg, caused by day and night air raids of the Brit...

A British antitank crew proceeds with the attack, while another member of the crew administers first aid to a wounded comrade, in the Tripolitania are...

Standing outside their huts, locals of a Tunisian village watch as British soldiers bring their six-pounder gun up a mountain overlooking Medjez El Ba...

Two Italian women are seen standing in a narrow backstreet as they return to their war-shattered home, near Naples, Italy, in late 1943. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines charge a hill on Tarawa in the early stages of the battle on the Japanese-held atoll in the Gilbert Islands during World War II in 1943....

A group of Polish Jews are being held at gunpoint by German SS soldiers, in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troo...

A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German t...

A group of young Jewish resistance fighters are being held under arrest by German SS soldiers in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw...

A Polish boy has his arms loaded down with six loafs of bread, made from flour supplied by the American Red Cross in 1943, at an unkwon location in th...

A group of religious Jews are being held under arrest by German SS soldiers, in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German...

An American soldier waves good luck to the crew of this U.S. Army Air Forces Liberator as it takes off from an advanced U.S. airbase at an unknown loc...

Lieutenant Colonel Lyle Bernard from the 30th Infantry Regiment, right, leader in the daring second amphibious landing behind enemy lines on Sicily's...

This photo shows customers lining up for sugar at an unknown location during rationing in 1943. (AP Photo)