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Japanese soldier standing in water committed "Hari Kari" when he tapped a hand grenade he's holding in his hand on his head rather than surrender to t...

Sgt. Douglas Radney of Texas, on duty somewhere in India on Jan. 25, 1943, bounces a little chap on his knee while the boy's father looks on. The chil...

The New York atmosphere was present as Jim and Nikki dropped in a restaurant in Casablanca for a snack on Jan. 23, 1943. Papa Gorim, center, the chief...

Jim and Nikki are interested spectators as a native dancer extends his cap in Casablanca on Jan. 23, 1943 while the local musicians strike up a tune s...

An American cigarette on the shore at Sidi Abd-er-Rahman, a few miles south of Casablanca on Jan. 23, 1943, tops off a picnic lunch of canned, sardine...

Jim, an American Naval officer stationed at Casablanca, French Morocco on Jan. 23, 1943, and Nikki, a girl who lives there, go for a stroll through a...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Army, Australian and American bombers blasted this Japanese airport at Buna, Papua New Guinea on Jan. 22, 1943, mak...

Above is Staff Sgt. Wilbur E. Brandt, Cleveland, Ohio, one of the Yanks in India getting his shave in bed before reveille from an Indian barber named...

Members of the U.S. forces line up alongside of a native hut in New Guinea on Jan. 14, 1943. From left to right: (front row) Lt. Zina R. Carter, of St...

American and Australian soldiers work together in carrying food out to men in front-line foxholes in Sanananda front, Papua New Guinea on Jan. 14, 194...

U.S. Soldiers looking over Japanese supply dump captured in Buna area on Jan. 14, 1943. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of the U.S. Army, after taking part in the fighting relax by playing cards in a palm grove behind the lines at Buna, New Guinea on Jan. 13, 1...

U.S. soldiers look aloft from a clearing in the New Guinea jungles on the Buna front on Jan. 13, 1943 to watch an Allied plane cross the sky in the ga...

Pfc. Everett Peterson, of Green Bay, Wisc., examines a captured Japanese machine gun in a bunker near Simemi Creek, in the Buna sector of New Guinea o...

Lt. Harold Evans, of Robersonville, N.C., uses a bayonet kept at razor sharpness, to give Lt. Henry Gibbs, Morehead City, N.C., a shave in New Guinea...

American troops scramble across a bridge in New Guinea on Jan. 12, 1943 which has been damaged by Japanese artillery and machine gun fire. This was on...

The first army clash with the enemy north of Bou Arada-one of the battles which preceded the capture of Tunis. First Army troops advancing across a co...

While our newly won positions around Chaouach were being consolidated on April 12th patrols were probing the country around Heidous to din the enemy's...

Corp. Mike Shop of Kansas City, Mo., while on leave in New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942, decided to climb a cocoanut palm native fashion. He got up to the...

Japanese anti-tank gun 37 mm, type 94, 1934 model, fires either HE or armor piercing shells shown at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. The...

Japanese machine gun 7.7 MM, type 92, 1932 model captured at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

Japanese machine gun 7.7 MM, type 92, 1932 model captured at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

Japanese machine gun 7.7 MM, type 92, 1932, model captured at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on Dec. 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

Bullet proof vest captured at Milne Bay, N.G., shown Dec. 29, 1942. There are six armor plates inserted in pockets in the front and this particular ve...

Bullet proof vest captured at Milne Bay, N.G., shown Dec. 29, 1942. There are six armor plates inserted in pockets in the front and this particular ve...

Japanese grenade discharger type 89 captured at Milne Bay, N.G. It will throw a 2 inch grenade approximately 250 yards and a shell 700 yards shown Dec...

Capt. Byron M. Shipley, of Albia, Iowa, center, examines a string of beads and does a little trading for trinkets to send back home while on a visit t...

British cruiser H.M.S. Mauritius, lies at anchor, on Dec. 24, 1942. (AP Photo)

The Netherlands Cruiser Helmskfrck, at full speed somewhere at sea, on Dec. 24, 1942. (AP Photo)

Wading jobs like this were a few of the hardships that confronted American infantrymen on their six-day trek to blast the Japanese at Buna on Dec. 18,...

The American soldier in front of the line filing over this narrow bridge near Buna was doing a tricky bit of footwork on Dec. 18, 1942. There was a si...

An American soldier moving up along the Buna road in New Guinea on Dec. 18, 1942 photographs a Japanese sign which fell by the way side after the Japa...

The daylight raid on Brest made by Royal Air Force bombers on Dec. 18, 1942. Targets were the Nazi pocket-battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, both...

What is described as a daylight raid by Royal Air Force heavy craft on the Nazi pocket battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Eug...

These Yanks with the American forces in India on Dec. 18, 1942 try to get "Mousie", their monkey mascot, to smile pretty for the cameraman - but "Mous...

American soldiers in the Buna front watch an exhausted Japanese prisoner on Dec. 18, 1942. (AP Photo/Edward Widdis)

H.M.S. Wells an ex-American destroyer now in the Royal Navy, laying a smoke screen, somewhere at sea, on Dec. 17, 1942. (AP Photo)

Engineer troops of the combined American and Australian forces under General MacArthur build a bridge in New Guinea on Dec. 15, 1942 for the passage o...

American and Australian troops, brothers in arms on New Guinea, cut a jeep trail through miles of jungles and across the Owen Stanley mountain range a...

Ammunition for three-inch trench mortars is loaded on the back of a pack carrier for transport to weapons set up in the jungles of New Guinea on Dec....

Transports which brought supplies and troops lying alongside the jetties and in the roadstead at Arzeu, near Oran, Algeria, on Dec. 9, 1942. (AP Photo...

Britain's Royal Navy had a major role in the world's greatest combined operation when the 500 ship convoy safely transported Allied troops to French N...

Ships of the British Royal Navy taking part in the successful transport of a great army with full equipment to the shores of French North Africa. A ca...

This unidentified British cruiser is passing through the Suez canal in Egypt, while ashore a guard unit watches on Dec. 8, 1942. (AP Photo)

Naval repairs in Alexandria, Egypt on Dec. 8, 1942. A tremendous task that goes on, day and night is the constant upkeep and repair of the patrols and...

Naval repairs in Alexandria, Egypt on Dec. 8, 1942. A tremendous task that goes on, day and night is the constant upkeep and repair of the patrols and...

Naval repairs in Alexandria, Egypt on Dec. 8, 1942. A tremendous task that goes on, day and night is the constant upkeep and repair of the patrols and...

Machinist's Mate James Le Grace, U.S.N., left, and Seaman Frank Ryan, right, wounded in the North African campaign, now back in America, listen to the...

Bos'n Mate Ernest Trimble, left, of Wichita, Kan., shows storekeeper First Class George Skinka, right, of Minneapolis, Minn., on Nov. 30, 1942, a sign...

Thomas Sortino, U.S.N., of Forest Park, Ill., whose landing boat was caught by two French destroyers during the Casablanca operation, relates his expe...