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More and more women are filling important jobs in the Boeing Aircraft Company's factory on the Pacific coast, as shown June 15, 1942. Standing is Kath...

A United States Navy plane?s missile of death scores a hit against the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho, in plume of smoke (center) during the battle o...

Gertrude Kram of network, whose 18-year-old son Leonard was 1st when his ship was torpedoed in February, was the first ?new? mother to apply for membe...

The U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown, left, and the other fighting ships of a United States task force in the Pacific, throw up an umbrella of anti-airc...

A German broadcast said that Reinhard Heydrich , shown on May 27, 1942, acting Reich?s protector for Bohemia and Moravia, had been wounded in an attem...

Employees of the Westinghouse Electric Elevator Company cheer as president Frank C. Reed, at halyard, raises all Navy

Employees of the Westinghouse Electric Elevator Company cheer as president Frank C. Reed, at halyard, raises all Navy

Mortally wounded in the battle of the Coral Sea, the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington is tended by two destroyers, May 1942. The destroyer in smoke haz...

Aircraft carrier Lexington burning following battle of Coral Sea in Australia, in May 1942. (AP Photo)

A repair crew works on the deck of the USS Lexington aircraft carrier, after a Japanese bomb struck a glancing blow during an early phase of the battl...

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Lexington, stricken by the Japanese, burns away in the last stages of her destruction in the battle of the Coral Sea. N...

An American B-25 U.S. Army bomber leaves

American B-25 bombers rest on the flight deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier Hornet, approaching the spot where the planes were launched on their raid o...

American war prisoners at Bataan, the Philippines, sort U.S. equipment to be taken over by the Japanese, April 11, 1942. Then the death march to Camp...

Like these men of an anti-tank company on beleaguered Bataan, American and Filipino forces held on doggedly until April 9, 1942, when their defense wa...

An American soldier stands tense in his foxhole on Bataan peninsula, the Philippines, waiting to hurl a flaming bottle bomb at an oncoming Japanese ta...

U.S. Army medical corps members assist a Japanese woman in Seattle to the ferry at Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound after she collapsed during the eva...

The USS Hornet, a Navy carrier, is shown during Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, April 1942. (AP Photo)

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, and his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland leaving the entrance of Malinta Tunnel on the heavily fortified...

Japanese planes bagged are scored up under the pilot's name in reproductions of the Japanese flag in Kunming, China, March 27, 1942. (AP Photo)

A picture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, military nemesis of the Japanese forces, hung in a flace of honor, March 24, 1942 on the wall of the room of Gene...

Black engineer's heave on a H-bridge as part of their training in the U.S. Army, March 19, 1942 in Fort Bragg. (AP Photo)

General George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff, held one of his first meetings in Washington, March 6, 1942 with the chiefs of his streamlined genera...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and Princess Margaret, of the British royal family, enact roles of a Pantomime of Cinderella, Feb. 9, 1942. They produced th...

Admiral Husband E. Kimmel was accused by a special commission of dereliction of duty over the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Jan. 24, 1942. (AP Phot...

A special commission investigating the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbor accused U.S. military Commander Walter Short, of dereliction of duty, Jan. 24,...

Donald M. Nelson sits at his cleared desk in Washington, prepared to take over his new job as America's war production czar, Jan. 14, 1942. He was su...

Film actress Dorothy Lamour puts up one of the defense posters in the New York defense savings office, Jan. 6, 1942. For the next five weeks, Miss La...

Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet, is shown in his Navy Dept. office, Dec. 24, 1941. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

Mrs. Harry Vande Berg and Mrs. Art King, right, maintain watch as air raid observers at a post at Point Fermin, Calif., Dec. 9, 1941. Women keep the...

British warships Repulse, left, and Prince of Wales, right, are shown under attack by Japanese planes which sank them off Malaya, Dec. 10, 1941. The...

Smoke clouds the sky over Pearl Harbor as two sailors crouch with their rifles on a pier at the submarine base, trying desperately to locate an enemy...

A Japanese bomber on a run over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is shown during the surprise attack of Dec. 7, 1941. Black smoke rises from American ships in the...

Officers' wives, investigating explosion and seeing smoke pall in distance on Dec. 7, 1941, heard neighbor Mary Naiden, then an Army hostess who took...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, eight miles from Pearl Harbor, shrapnel from a Japanese bomb riddled this car and killed three civilians in t...

Some three score young men enlisted in the U.S. Navy, Dec. 7, 1941 in San Francisco shortly after war came to the Pacific with Japan's attack on U.S....

Photo shows Don Whitmire, Alabama U. in 1942. (AP Photo)

This Japanese navy airview of smoking U.S. ships during Pearl Harbor attack appeared in a 1942 publication called

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, some of the patrol planes of the Catalina type that were wrecked on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, duri...

Chairman Mao Tse Tung makes a report in Yenan in 1942. (AP Photo/Hsinghua)

The lack of a modern means of transportation in the China war zone forced Japanese troops to use everything including camels, 1942. (AP Photo)

Members of Battery D, 101st Coast Artillery, Camp Stewart, Ga., attached to the Fourth Corps

A German infantryman runs while a town burns behind him somewhere on the Eastern Front, 1941. (AP Photo)

Byron White, Colorado, shown on Nov. 5, 1941. (AP Photo)

Dr. Raul Damonte Taborda, right, is president of the committee investigating anti-Argentine activities, who is a member of the group of Argentine depu...

Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Dr. Raul Damonte Taborga, right, president of the committee inv...

A Jewish man wears the Star of David on his coat, following the recent decree that persons of his faith must so identify themselves, shown Oct. 19, 19...

Coast Guard artillerymen man a 50-caliber machine gun near the administration building at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Oct. 9, 1941, as the metropol...

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