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British battleships with other British warships, escorting the Italian fleet that surrendered from Malta to Alexandria, on Oct. 9, 1943. Skyline study...

The King George V and one of her 'planes when the British battleships with other British warships, was escorting the Italian surrender fleet from Malt...

Down in the dark engine room of an Allied corvette two American sailors at a Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Naval base on Oct. 7, 1943, make rapid rep...

Parachute bombs dropped from Allied aircraft blossom among camouflaged Japanese planes during an attack on But airfield, another of the dispersal fiel...

Headers at harvest work in Tamedrth district, Australia, on Oct. 5, 1943. (AP Photo)

Bagging wheat in Australia, on Oct. 5, 1943. (AP Photo)

Timber cutters in Jarrahdale, West Australia, on Oct. 5, 1943. (AP Photo)

Sugar cane cutting, somewhere in Australia, on Oct. 5, 1943. (AP Photo)

Korumhurra butter factory,somewhere in Australia, on Oct. 5, 1943. (AP Photo)

Two U.S. soldiers inspect a Japanese plane which crashed on the beach at Lae, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943, close to the enemy airfield there. L...

Curious American and Australian soldiers wander about the one-time Japanese airport near captured Lae, New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943, and inspect a jun...

U.S. and Australian soldiers inspect the wreckage of a Japanese bomber, at Lae, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943, in the Allied offensive which led...

A barge gets its decks washed down at Morobe, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

A landing barge broaches on the beach caused by high seas at Tambu Bay, New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943. Another barge comes in to help get it off the be...

Tractor pulls from one end while other barge tugs on other end in the Solomon Islands area in New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

35 Italian warships including 3 battleships and 6 cruisers have arrived at Malta and other British ports. The Malta contingent left Spezia and Taranto...

Aussies load gasoline drums on an American barge up a New Guinea river on Sept. 30, 1943. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Two men try to fasten another line on barge at Tambu Bay, New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943 and just about get swamped. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Aussies load gasoline drums on an American barge up a New Guinea river on Sept. 30, 1943. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Two men try to fasten another line on barge at Tambu Bay, New Guinea on Sept. 30, 1943 and just about get swamped. On barge, Sgt. Robert E. Gross, St....

A patch on his forehead and unclothed from the waist up, a Nazi submarine captain stands at attention on the deck of an escort carrier while being que...

Cpl. Valentine Lye, of Long Beach, Cal., spreads palm leaves on the ground to make a bed for himself and his comrades on Mt. Tambu, in New Guinea, on...

Loading Japanese barge with U. S. forces driving towards Salamaua, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 24, 1943. On gun, left to right: Pvt. Clarence C. Shumwat...

A great day in British naval history recorded by an official naval photographer who was on board H.M.S. Warspite when the famous battleship in company...

After three of the most dramatic days in the history of the British Navy, the commander of the Italian Fleet came ashore at Custom House Steps, Malta,...

A great day in British naval history recorded by an official naval photographer who was on board H.M.S. Warspite when the famous battleship in company...

Britain's cruiser H.M.S. Orion going into bombard German batteries in the bay of Salerno, Italy, on Sept. 19, 1943, during the early stages of the att...

Britain's cruiser H.M.S. Mauritius going into bombard shore batteries in the bay of Salerno, Italy, on Sept. 19, 1943, during the early stages of the...

After the Occupation of Lao, former Japanese stronghold in New Guinea, afford a striking demonstration of the power and accuracy of Allied aerial bomb...

The 35,000 ton British battleship H.M.S. Duke of York, ploughing her way through heavy seas during home fleet patrol, on Sept. 14, 1943. (AP Photo)

A blindfolded Japanese prisoner is taken into a truck by two Australian soldiers after having been picked up somewhere in the Owen Stanley Range, Papu...

Italian sailors on the deck of the battleship Guilio Cesare after its surrender to the Allies at Malta on Sept. 14, 1943. (AP Photo)

Free French sailors aboard a bus for Rockland County apple country to pick apples on Sept. 14, 1943. They left a mid town bus terminal. (AP Photo)

Papuan native police stand at attention during the singing of "God Save the King" in New Guinea on Sept. 13, 1943. Four New Guinea natives are to be d...

One of the most effective air bombing of the war in France on Sept. 13, 1943. Dozens of bombs fall in clockwork precision from the Flying Fortresses o...

Sgt. Jessie L. Hill, Fillmore, Cal., shown with a couple of his native helpers on the Salamaua front in southwest Pacific, New Guinea but he seems to...

Landing barges bring in supplies and reinforcements, on the Salamaua front in Papua New Guinea on Sept. 12, 1943. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

A line-up of the members of the crew of the transport for inspection and life-boat drill carried out by the Coast Guard before the ship was allowed to...

Lights on crew members' life jackets are examined by James Temple as John Flannery demonstrates the emergency features in an unknown location on Sept....

Comdr. H.E. Simmons, USCGR, extreme right, inspects smoke-fighting helmet while Chief Officer Donald Smith, of Glasgow, looks on in an unknown locatio...

Mrs. Clementine Churchill, wife of the British Prime Minister who is in Washington for a conference with President Roosevelt, lays a wreath on the to...

In a soccer game between teams from American and Australian cruisers operating in the South Pacific on August 30, 1943, a team from a United States li...

At this ice cream parlor, something new in the South Pacific, it is first come first served, so these American and Australian sailors line up for a so...

Liberty party in a head for recreation field in tank lighter at a South Pacific naval base on August 30, 1943. (AP Photo/Frank Filan)

At this ice cream parlor, something new in the South Pacific, it is first come first served, so these American and Australian sailors line up for a so...

Both American and Australian sailors sit and listen to music while eating their ice cream or drinking their beer in the center of a coconut grove in t...

The score board at "Yankee Stadium" on August 30, 1943, which adjoins the polo grounds, is being cleaned for a game. Ball diamonds on the recreational...

A group of American sailors in the South Pacific listen attentively to an Australian to get as much information about the land down under as possible...

Liberty party in a head for recreation field in tank lighter at a South Pacific naval base on August 30, 1943. (AP Photo/Frank Filan)

Major Archibald Roosevelt, of Long Island, New York, chats with Australian soldiers near Nassau Bay, in the Southwest Pacific, New Guinea on August 27...