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Women's Bureau women work as riveters at the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., seen here at a plant in Burbank, Calif., in 1943. (AP Photo)

Guarded by a Chinese soldier, a squadron of Curtiss P-40 fighter planes, decorated with the typical shark face of the famed Flying Tigers, are lined u...

Two women are seen working the production line at Grumman Aircraft Engine Corp., at an unknown location in 1943. (AP Photo)

The sky over Algiers is lit up by searchlight beams and heavy ack-ack fire from Allied ground forces during a German air raid in 1943. (AP Photo)

An U.S. Air Transport Command plane, loaded with war supplies, flies overhead the pyramids at Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, in 1943. This plane was one of...

A crew of British artillerymen loads a six pounder gun with antitank shells against Axis troops, in the former Italian colony Tripolitania, in Libya,...

This 1943 photo shows the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Germany's most important port and city Hamburg, heavily damaged by night air raids of the British...

Seen from above, this Japanese carrier draws a perfect circle in the water as it maneuvers to avoid being hit in an ongoing U.S. air attack, on Decemb...

John K. Northrop, airplane designer and manufacturer of war planes, is shown at his desk in Hawthorne, Ca., Dec. 27, 1942. (AP Photo)

U.S. bombers attack a military supply train of the Italo-German Alliance, at an unknown location in Libya, on December 1, 1942. (AP Photo)

A U.S. convoy races along a North African highway across Algeria, on December 19, 1942, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Standing in the backyard of an abandoned house in the outskirts of the besieged city of Leningrad, a rifleman of the Red Army aims and fires his machi...

Hedy Lamarr autographs the cement court at the United Service Organizations (USO) Hollywood Canteen as servicemen surround the movie actress, Dec. 13,...

Italo-German prisoners of war are led away after being captured by British troops, at an unknown location in Libya, on December 3, 1942. (AP Photo)

Axis oil tankers burn after being hit by British bombers in the harbor of Benghazi, Libya, in December 1942. (AP Photo)

Wreckage of German Me 110 fighter planes is seen after an air raid of British and U.S. bombers on the German airbase at Sollum, Egypt, in December 194...

A Japanese flying boat sinks after being shot down by U.S. Army Air Forces fighter planes at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in December 1942, during Wo...

A convoy of British transport trucks and tanks is seen moving up Halfaya Pass, near Sollum, Egypt, in December 1942. (AP Photo)

A wounded Japanese pilot is seen lying on a stretcher, at an unknown location during World War II, in December 1942. (AP Photo)

German soldiers are seen during a snowstorm, on November 28, 1942, somewhere along the German-Russian warfront in World War II. (AP Photo)

A flight of Curtiss P-40 fighter planes manned by the U.S. Air Corps Task Force in China are lined up at a secret airfield ready to take off on a miss...

Challenger Willie Pep, left, Hartford, Conn., bounces a left off the jaw of world featherweight champion Albert

Japanese soldiers stand at gun emplacements during a battle with defending Chinese forces, at an unknown location in occupied China, on November 20, 1...

Small parachutes are seen dropping from the sky at an unknown location in Japanese-occupied China to supply the occupation forces with ammunition and...

Coming from the transport ship seen in the background, these U.S. soldiers disembark a landing craft and wade ashore, on November 19, 1942, at unknown...

U.S. carrier-based torpedo planes return from an air raid on Japanese positions on the Shortlands Islands area, on November 19, 1942. (AP Photo)

A Japanese battery of 105mm guns is fired at an unknown battlefield in Japanese-occupied China, on November 19, 1942. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines in an amphibious landing craft approach a shore near Oran, in northwestern Algeria, on November 13, 1942, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Two machine gunners of the Soviet Red Army are seen as they aim at German positions across a river, at the front lines around the besieged city of Len...

A Japanese bomber leaves a trail of black smoke as it goes down after being struck by U.S. forces at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on November 11...

Mountain artillery troops of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army are seen as they march to the front against Japanese invaders, on November 11, 194...

The Corsair, one of the newest U.S. Navy fighter planes, is shown in flight over an unknown location on Nov. 9, 1942 during World War II. The aircraf...

Japanese soldiers stand in position at gun emplacements of a fort during action against Chinese in battle in China, Nov. 1942 during the Second Sino-J...

U.S. troops are seen climbing over the side of a combat transport ship, while an amphibious landing barge is hauled from board, in November 1942, at a...

British soldiers get their equipment in position as they wait in a trench for orders to advance, in November 1942, at an unknown location in the Weste...

British infantry troops are seen underway in the Western Desert, in Egypt, in November 1942. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of the Italian Axis troops in North Africa are seen as they leave their foxhole to surrender to Allied British forces, at an unknown location...

A powerfull 25-pounder gun is fired by a British artillery crew, on October 27, 1942, at an unknown location in Egypt, during the Axis occupation of...

During the naval Battle of Santa Cruz island, on October 26, 1942, the USS Hornet is severly damaged by Japanese torpedo planes and dive bomber attack...

Antiaircraft barrage goes up from a U.S. carrier, to defend against Japanese air attacks off the Santa Cruz Islands, in the Solomon group, on October...

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Capt. Hugh Mulzac, America's only black shipmaster, is shown aboard his commanding Liberty ship The Booker T. Washington on Oct. 23, 1942. (AP Photo)

Welterweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson, right, of Harlem, winds up a left to challenger Izzy Janazzo, of Brooklyn, in the Arena in Philadelphia, Pa....

U.S. Marine landing crafts are seen from above as they approach a beach on Florida Island, in the Solomon group, on October 17, 1942. (AP Photo)

Charles Chaplin speaks at a meeting of the Artists Front to Win the War held at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Friday, Oct. 16, 1942. (AP Photo)

Six U.S. Navy scout planes are seen in flight above their carrier on October 16, 1942. (AP Photo)

Antitank gun crews of the Red Army prepare to fire against approaching German tank units, at an unknown battlefield, on October 13, 1942, during the G...

Actress Rita Hayworth participates in the scrap metal recycling campaign by donating her car's bumper in response to the call for bumpers and other no...

U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, right, talks with American women ferry pilots serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary at an airfield in England in...

Mary Josephine Farley, who at 20 is already considered a top notch mechanic, is seen in October 1942, at an unkown location, while working on the Wrig...