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Roman Catholic Champlain Lain Fabian Flynn of Boston, Mass., administers communion to soldiers on May 12, 1943, aboard a United States troop transport...

American doughboys buy tropical fruits from a native after arrival at an undisclosed Indian base on May 11, 1943. They are left to right Corp. Terranc...

Yanks in an old-fashioned carriage, one of many still in use at the undisclosed Indian base where they landed in India on May 11, 1943. Left to right,...

A group of U.S. soldiers, stationed in India on April 28, 1943, were cheerful as they boarded a train taking them to Lahore to participate in a boxing...

Britain's King George Vi, centre, inspects the ship's company of an aircraft carrier, as the Royal Marine band marches along the flight deck, at a por...

Smoke puffs rise as bombs explode in the machine workshops which form part of the Brest, France, naval arsenal on April 23, 1943. Three more bombs fal...

Officers and men of the French Navy go out on patrol with the British Navy, learning how to handle the small ships and weapons with which war is waged...

Former Governor Alfred M. Landon, of Kansas, right, 1936 Republican presidential candidate, chats with Governor Thomas E. Dewey, New York's first GOP...

Gamoga Henao is having his hair cut by Kopi Kinibo in this native version of a barber shop in New Guinea on April 15, 1943. Both men are from the vill...

Alf Landon, 1936 republican presidential nominee, called photographers' attention to the new hat he was wearing as he emerged from a White House confe...

Mrs. Ella B. Howard, right, 44, described by the state at her preliminary hearing on April 2, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as "The Rootin', Tootin'," slay...

Mrs. Ella B. Howard, Fort Worth divorcee, signs bond for $10,000 in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 2, 1943, under which she was released on a manslaughter c...

The courtroom was jammed on April 2, 1943 at the preliminary hearing of Mrs. Ella B. Howard, charged with murder in the slaving of Mrs. T. Karl Simmon...

Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce Austin Fraser, the new Commander in Chief, Home Fleet, on board a Royal Navy ship somewhere at sea, on April 1, 1943. (AP Photo...

Sappers of the British Eighth army search for enemy mines in a field of daisies outside Medenine in Rommel's Mareth line, Tunisia on March 25, 1943. (...

Smoke rises form the explosion of a "Bangalore" a delayed-action bomb pushed by British Eighth Army soldiers under the wire entanglement around a mine...

A Bofors gun is pulled toward the Tunisian front by a British army lorry along a roadside lined by German tank debris on March 25, 1943. In foreground...

British destroyers at Battle drill. A British destroyer laying a smoke screen on March 24, 1943. (AP Photo)

In this photo provided by the U.S. Army Air Forces, heavy attacks by Allied airmen have reduced the Japanese Airdrome at Lae, Papua New Guinea on Marc...

A ship of the fighting French merchant navy playing its part in the battle of supplies. The big gun of a fighting French merchant ship and its crew at...

German said a "Monsieur Jean" was the French civilian in the black market who found them places to stay, bought their gas, etc. Marius went out to fet...

Sgt. Cyrus Righter, of Succasunna, N.J., above, launders his "long-Johns" in a make-shift potato can washtub over a hearth gouged out of the rugged ea...

Inaugurated by the National Catholic Community Service, a raid advance course in English speech is being given to help French sailors in and around Ne...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Army Air Forces, Allied bombs crashing on Japanese airport facilities and buildings at Lae, Papua New Guinea on Mar...

A recent air raid warning test caught these sailors from the French cruiser Montcalm on the street in Philadelphia on March 5, 1943. It was the Army's...

Following attendance at pontifical mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Feb. 28, 1943, one hundred sailors from the French battleship Richel...

Japanese warehouse burning at Buna Mission on Feb. 27, 1943. (AP Photo)

A general view at City Hall in New York on Feb. 23, 1943 during the reception there in honor of Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fenard, head of the French nav...

Two companies of French marines, carrying bayoneted rifles, march up lower Broadway, ahead of French sailors, as they participated in ceremonies and r...

French marines from the French cruiser Montcalm, which is docked in Philadelphia, marching in the parade "Freedom for France Day," in New York, N.Y.,...

Shouldering bayoneted rifles, French marines from the cruiser Montcalm march ahead of other marines and French sailors as they head up Broadway from t...

Private Kenneth C. Lawson, of Ararat, Va., gets a kick out of the comics but they are just a puzzle to the observing natives at this post in the Naga...

A depth charge exploding astern of a British destroyer during an attack on an enemy submarine, somewhere at sea, on Feb. 19, 1943. (AP Photo)

Sailors in the crew of the French battleship Richelieu, arrived in U.S. waters from Dakar, roll a barrel of wine on the deck in New York Harbor on Feb...

French cruiser Montcalm, which escorted battleship Richelieu from Dakar, is now located at Philadelphia Navy Yard on Feb. 17, 1943. Marine lined up on...

Seamen from the French cruiser Montcalm pay attention to U.S. seamen's antics as he instructs them in the finer points of "Rug Cutting" at a St. Valen...

Held by two sailors on the French cruiser Montcalm at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on Feb. 17, 1943, the two white cats and their black-and-white cousin...

Officers of the free French navy are being trained in British waters in a ship formerly famed as a scientific research ship. The vessel is the Preside...

The British Corvette HMS Anchusa during one of her brief spells in port on Feb. 16, 1943. Corvettes are playing a constant and notable part in the dri...

Officers of the free French Navy are being trained in British waters in a ship formerly famed as a scientific research ship. The vessel is the Preside...

An American and the Japanese he killed near Buna mission, Papua New Guinea on Feb. 13, 1943. Pfc Wally Wakeman says "I was walking down the lane when...

Men of the U.S. 32nd division task force examine trophies during a brief rest period after the capture of Buna on Feb. 12, 1943. Men in the foreground...

These U.S. sailors assigned to a lonely outpost on New Caledonia in France on Feb. 10, 1943 have borrowed horses from the Army for the purpose of carr...

Bearded seamen, kneeling beneath the deck gun of a U.S. submarine back in port after raids on Japanese shipping which netted two war ships and two mer...

A striking view of the free French naval training ship L'etoile on Feb. 10, 1943, to which the cadets transfer for further training from the President...

Regarding some of landmarks off a city in India on Feb. 9, 1943 from the roof of the U.S. Officer's Club are, left to right: 2nd Lieutenant Lucy Wainw...

A helmeted U.S. trooper looks over a Japanese landing barge and the bodies of three Nipponese soldiers who were killed trying to land in it on beach a...

Wearing battledress, Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, visited Benghazi where he made a tour of inspection. Ad...

First Officer Louise Anderson of Denver, Colo, a WAAC, only woman at the historic conference of President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winsto...

French sailors enjoy themselves at a sidewalk cafe in Dakar on Jan. 28, 1943. (AP Photo)