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Corporal Ralph Jones, left, of Dulwich South Australia, has a talk with Major Archibald Roosevelt near Nassau Bay on August 27, 1943. Major Roosevelt...

Repatriated British Naval prisoners arrive at Port Said, aboard the crowded Talma on their way home, with the Union Jack painted prominently on her si...

Mrs. Clementine Churchill and daughter Mary entering Quebec's City Hall on August 23, 1943 as crowd lines walk. (AP Photo/Skadding)

Britain's King George VI boarding the cruiser H.M.S. Phoebe during a visit to ships of the Home Fleet, somewhere in England, on Aug. 18, 1943. (AP P...

Homecoming of British Escort carrier H.M.S Biter, on August 13, 1943, after her success in the U-boat war. (AP Photo)

A granite sentry house is provided for Richard Greer, hospital apprentice of Shelbyville, Tenn., as he does guard duty at the entrance gate of the hos...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, standing with his daughter, subaltern Mary Churchill, ATS, on the rear of his special train, greets Sgt. Pat Patters...

Prime Minister Churchill, complete with cigar and siren suit, signs an autograph book for an interested spectator on board the train that brought him...

Boston bombers of the RAF fighter command hover overhead as smoke from fires started by previous waves of planes partially conceals the target, the st...

R.A.F. Fighter Command on the Naval Stores Depot at Rennes on August 8, 1943 which serves the U-boat bases on the French Atlantic Coast. One of the Bo...

American soldiers, having captured a Japanese base at Nassau Bay, Papua New Guinea on August 8, 1943, busy themselves setting up a machine gun against...

Wreckage of one of five British four-engine fighting planes shot down at the channel coast by one single German battery of the navy flak on August 5,...

Pvt. First Class Alphee Bergeron of Willow City, N.D., an American soldier, is inside a camouflaged Japanese machine gun nest on August 5, 1943 captur...

Dive bombers attacking ships, as they were unloading troops and landing craft on a beach four miles South of Syracuse, Italy, on July 30, 1943, during...

Huge locomotive coming ashore on a floating crane somewhere in North Africa on July 27, 1943. (AP Photo)

An official naval photographer, of the allied entry into Augusta harbour under heavy fire from shore batteries. A Hunt class destroyer engage shore ba...

A group of Royal Navy commandos during training somewhere in England, on July 20, 1943. (AP Photo)

Spirits of these captured German submarine Crewmen on July 20, 1943, shown on the deck of a U.S. coast guard cutter, which sank their U boat, when it...

French refugees, sailors and soldiers, and French service girls, celebrated the French National Day by dancing in a London Street on July 14 as is the...

Hamatapa, a New Guinea native, is a bachelor decked out in his best finery on July 11, 1943. He carries a pipe in his bracelet, food in the nets, and...

After mess, the American men stand on line to wash their mess kits on July 10, 1943. (AP Photo)

Relieved from a tour of duty on the Tunisian front lines, these U.S. troops scrub up and frolic in a tiny pond somewhere in North Africa on July 10, 1...

U.S. sailors climb and swing and splash on a carefree holiday at the Fleet Recreation Center on a Pacific Island shown July 8, 1943, established by co...

R.A.F. ventures attach Cherbourg Maupertus Airfield on June 24, 1943. (AP Photo)

Capt. Walter Lee Sheppard of Philadelphia, stops for water and makes the acquaintance in the person of the small son of a farmer, near Benares, India...

Wave Virginia Sepe of Millbrook, N.Y., makes false teeth in the prosthetic laboratory at the Chelsea Naval hospital, Chelsea, Mass.,on June 23, 1943,...

Wave Pauline Neidig of Quakertown, Pa., attends Pfc. James Sullivan of Dorchester, Mass., who is receiving treatment for malaria, which he contracted...

At the holy city of Benares a group of Americans disembark to make friendship with a group of Indian boys who are disporting at the old swimming hole...

On the byways of the world, our war correspondents and fighting men have come upon some unusual sights, June 23, 1943. At the holy city of Benares on...

Home after a year in the Aleutians where they built fortifications and flying fields, this first battalion of Seabees (Naval construction units) arriv...

Pack mules are loaded into a Douglas transport plane at an Allied base somewhere in New Guinea on June 17, 1943. The transport crews will tackle any j...

Britain's Vice Admiral Sir Henry Pridham Wippell, on the bridge of the Dover Fortifications, in England, on June 15, 1943. (AP Photo)

This harbour in Tunisia got its share of the almost non-stop Allied blitz on Axis supply points which preceded the total defeat of Germany and Italy i...

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister waves his hat on his cane to men of the RAF and the army after he had addressed them in the ancient amphithe...

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, waves his hat on his cane to men of the RAF and the army after he had addressed them in the ancient amphith...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left center in sun helmet) stands atop a German Mark VI Tiger tank, captured in North Africa on June 14, 1943 with o...

Mildred Clemson, of Greensburg, Pa., models an Indian Sari she purchased in a free moment from duties as a U.S. Army nurse in the China-Burma-India Th...

U.S. Army nurses Mildred Clemson, left, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and Mary Louise Harrison, right, of Louisville, Kentucky, wash their clothes in t...

U.S. Army nurses on duty some where in the China-Burma-India theatre in India on June 8, 1943 on war lead a rugged life. One of the principal means of...

Pvt. Walter S. Cooper, U.S. Military Police, of Baltimore, Md., right, looks over rifle belonging to Corporal Jirigari, of the Royal Papuan Constabula...

Tiny American jeeps with American troops throughout the world tackle big jobs, but this jeep at Dakar's North African dock in Dakar, Senegal on June 2...

When they had gained their immediate objective, the hill town of Chaeuach, the 1st Army put out patrols to discover the extent of the German retreat t...

Mr. Winston Churchill, now back in England, paid a visit to Gibraltar, where he was shown some of the defenses by Lt. Gen. F.N. Mason MacFarlane, the...

Marching into a military cemetery in New Guinea on May 30, 1943 for Memorial Day ceremonies are American and Australian senior officers. Officers in t...

Grouped around a phonograph somewhere in New Guinea on May 28, 1943, a group of U.S. soldiers appear to enjoy the music and the effect it is having of...

Admiral R.H. Portal, assistant Chief Naval staff for air, in England, on May 27, 1943. (AP Photo)

Corp. Sherman W. Cooke, Forest Hills, N.Y., left, and John T. Woglom, USN, Brooklyn, N.Y., right, present Father Cassneua, center, and two orphans thr...

When the French cruiser Georges Leygues sighted an unfamiliar ship, silhouetted in the light of the moon in the South Atlantic the British naval liais...

Axis prisoners on the march to an internment camp, somewhere in Tinisia on May 14, 1943, after being shipped down the coast by the Royal Navy. (AP Pho...

During his periodical journeying about the country seeing things for himself,Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill spends a large amount of his t...