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| Gneisenau, Admiral Graf Spee, Admiral Scheer, and Deutschland steamed in a line during the German Naval Review of Aug 1938 | HMS Hermes, Aug 1938 |
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| Latécoère 298 aircraft at rest, date unknown; seen in the Aug 1938 issue of L'Aerophile magazine | Norman Scott and other US Naval Mission staff officers, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug 1938 |
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| Port side view of Mikuma's smokestack, Aug 1938; dual stripes indicate memberships in Sentai 7 | USS Enterprise at anchor, 1938-40, location unknown |
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| HMS York at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 10 Aug 1938 | Hitler Youth members dining at the German embassy in Japan, 16 Aug 1938 |
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| Hitler Youth members having just disembarked from passenger ship Gneisenau at Yokohama, Japan, 16 Aug 1938 at about 1300 hours; in this photo they had just greeted their hosts with 'Dai Nippon banzai' ('Great Japan for Ten Thousand Years') | Launching of German cruiser Prinz Eugen, slip VIII of Germaniawerft yard, Kiel, Germany, 22 Aug 1938, photo 1 of 3 |
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| Launching of German cruiser Prinz Eugen, slip VIII of Germaniawerft yard, Kiel, Germany, 22 Aug 1938, photo 2 of 3 | Launching of German cruiser Prinz Eugen, slip VIII of Germaniawerft yard, Kiel, Germany, 22 Aug 1938, photo 3 of 3 |
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| Helena under construction at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 27 Aug 1938 | Launching ceremony of Helena, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 27 Aug 1938, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Launching ceremony of Helena, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 27 Aug 1938, photo 2 of 2 | View of Helena's stern prior to launch, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 28 Aug 1938 |
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| Launching of the experimental Submarine No. 71, Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, 29 Aug 1938 | Skoda Works, Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 29 Aug 1938 |
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| Victims of aerial bombing, Shanghai, China, circa Aug 1938 | German children saluting Nazi Party members marching past them, Nürnberg, Germany, circa early Sep 1938 |
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