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Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-chief Western Approaches, who is taking up a new appointment in the United States, said goodbye and expressed hi...

Lieut. F.T.R. Giles, A.D.S., to Lord Knollys, the governor of Bermuda, presents Mrs. Clementine Churchill with a cheque for L2,600 from Bermuda at 10...

Australian officers check design and gear of two Japanese tanks which were captured, apparently virtually intact, during the allied offensive in the M...

American and Australian soldiers check over every inch of two captured Japanese tanks somewhere in New Guinea, as allied forces closed in on Japanese...

American soldiers tread the stern gangplank of a Japanese landing barge in New Guinea on Nov. 17, 1942. Japanese got ashore, but never reboarded the c...

Modern destroyers are considerably larger and self-contained than their predecessors of the war, but they are more complicated and spend longer period...

U.S. soldier Pvt. Bill Shipman of Massillon, Ohio, left, dresses up in a native grass costume and is fed an Army biscuit by PFC John D. Arnold, of Arb...

The equipment that is carried by British Gliders to the scene of attack during airborne operations. Glider troops unloading bicycles from a glider, du...

Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham shown Nov. 9, 1942, commands the big Allied fleet which has conducted the expedition that landed troops of the American a...

Red Cross Nurse Mary Black Fraser, of Algona, Iowa, removes a small bit of London, England, from the eye of Second Class Pharmacist's Mate Fred Emanue...

Playing an important role in the fierce United Nations drive on the Axis forces in the Western Desert on Nov. 6, 1942, are U.S. 'Gen. Sherman' tanks,...

Captured Japanese mountain gun being looked over by American and Australian soldiers in November 1942, gun was later fired up and used on the Japanese...

British cruisers operating in the Mediterranean on Oct. 21, 1942. (AP Photo)

Shirtless under the tropical sun, Allied troops wield picks as they build a road over hilly terrain in New Guinea on Oct. 21, 1942. (AP Photo/Pool)

Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects the ship's company of H.M.S. Scylla in London on Oct. 21, 1942, rear Admiral Burnett's flagship during the r...

A U.S. Navy chaplain intones the last prayer just before the Stars and Stripes are removed from the coffin of a U.S. seaman killed in the action in th...

Japanese prisoner captured at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea on Oct. 15, 1942. Left to Right are Sgt. Max Jones, Australian; Japanese prisoner and Corp...

Japanese prisoner captured at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea on Oct. 15, 1942. Left to Right are Sgt. Max Jones, Australian; Japanese prisoner and Corp...

Japanese prisoner captured at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea on Oct. 15, 1942. Sgt. Jones questions prisoner about photographs found on him. Photos wer...

During visit to children's camp at Pierre Follet near Vichy on Oct. 15, 1942 where vacation of many French children was paid for by American Red Cross...

Members of New Guinea Scouts of the Australian Army form setting for Japanese field standard left behind in a rapid retreat after clash with the Scout...

Australian soldiers at Papua examine equipment thrown away in the hasty retreat of Japanese who staged an unsuccessful sortie from Salamaua. Four figh...

A sailor and his girl are apparently getting away from the crowd by occupying the middle section of the stands to watch the Marquette-Kansas Universit...

The way of a sailor with lass is the same the world over, and these U.S. sailors in Northern Ireland on Sept. 19, 1942 are losing no time in escorting...

An American soldier, left, and an Australian trooper examine Japanese Arms, a flag, some money, and Odd and Ends of equipment captured by United Natio...

American and R.A.A.F. pilots at an Allied air field in New Guinea on Sept. 16, 1942 take time out for a quick lunch after shooing away a Japanese atta...

Some New Guinea native police drill before typical New Guinea huts near the jungle and a U.S. jeep stands idly by on Sept. 14, 1942. Allied forces wer...

Native police stand at attention with rifles slightly askew in New Guinea on Sept. 14, 1942. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Native police go through their regular drill in the New Guinea jungle on Sept. 14, 1942 with typical New Guinea houses and a U.S. Army jeep in the bac...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, and Joseph Stalin share a joke during their historic conference in Moscow on Sept. 13, 1942. (AP Photo/Officia...

Fighting continued in the mountainous jungles of New Guinea on Sept. 13, 1942. This photo shows the type of country Allied forces are defending. Army...

British prisoners, captured during the raid, being led, trouserless, up the beach in charge of a German wearing a thick jersey during Dieppe "Combined...

A destroyer of the Voltaclass, extremely good ship. Same type as the Sircco, French destroyer who sunk three German subs and was sunk itself during Du...

A Vichy French patrol ship, used on convoy duty, is moored at Casablanca, French Morocco on Sept. 5, 1942, where the battleship Jean Bart and other Vi...

Sub commanders all are these Allied naval men from the British French Dutch and Norwegian units at a British base on August 31, 1942. (AP Photo)

Wreckage left by German bombers during the Nazi advance on France in 1940. German soldiers picking through wreckage. Amiens cathedral is in background...

The British capital has been invaded by a friendly army of American sailors. Their leave was short, so it meant crowding the minutes to see the sights...

Corporal Richard Burian on Allentown, Pa., plays piano accompaniment for machinist's mate Arthur Bell of San Diego, Calif., who is broadcasting a song...

Fireman John Kricket of Marlton, N.J., has his shoes shined in Leicester Square in London on August 5, 1942 during his short leave in the British capi...

U.S. Seaman 2nd class Bill Minton of Trenton, N.J., center, makes a metal identity disc at an automatic machine in a fun fair in London on August 5, 1...

In the Soho quarter of London U.S. sailors Alexander E. Paluch of Sayreville, N.J., left, and Thomas Lanzillo of Cambridge, Mass., halt for a couple o...

Seaman 2nd Class Alexander E. Paluch of Sayreville, N.J., left, and Seaman 2nd Class Thomas Lanzillo of Cambridge, Mass., listen to 74-year-old Boer W...

A couple of Uncle Sam's seagoing fighting men, on leave from their warship, made a peaceful invasion of London, visiting historic sights, St. James' P...

English women have been hired by U.S. Naval units in Great Britain to serve as chauffeurs. The women, formerly in British transport service, wear the...

A pair of signalmen, Jay Miller, Detroit, Mich., left, and Frank Dombarcik, Cleveland, O., tour Westminster with Miss Bella Simons in London on August...

A quartet of U.S. gobs on shore leave from the American task force serving with the British home fleet chat with a London bobb beneath the Royal Stand...

On leave in London on August 2, 1942, two sailors of the U.S. Task Force, Signalman Frank Dombarcik of Cleveland, O., left, and Signalman Jay Miller o...

Amiens German bombing destroyed Amiens, but German Surety of aim saved the cathedral shown August 1942. (AP Photo)

London tag day seller finds read customers in sailors from U.S. fleet on shore leave in London on July 28, 1942. They were second batch to get liberty...

Australian troops manning strategic points along their coastline, keeping a look out for surprise night raiders, an Australian searchlight sweeps the...