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| Cruiser Nürnberg, late 1930s | Cruiser USS Trenton underway in the Main Channel at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1939. |
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| DC-5 prototype in flight, 1939. This plane later flew with the US Navy as an R3D-3. | Diagram of a main battery 16-inch gun turret for the South Dakota-class of US battleships |
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| Do 17Z aircraft refueling, circa late 1930s | Douglas TBD Devastator of Torpedo Squadron VT-5 at North Island, San Diego, California, United States, circa 1939. |
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| Dovunque 35 transport in Africa, date unknown | Edward Rydz-Śmigły saluting, Poland, 1939 |
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| Ernst Udet, Ernst Heinkel, and others with a He 100 aircraft, Germany, 1939 | Female Chinese guerilla fighter armed with a Mauser C96 handgun, China, circa 1939 |
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| Flight of US Army BT-13A Valiants, 1939 | German battleship Scharnhorst underway, 1939. |
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| German battleships Scharnhorst (left) and Gneisenau (right), circa 1939 | German built Focke-Wulf Fw-200 Condor passenger airliner of the German owned Sdeta Airline based in Ecuador during a stop at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1939. |
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| German built Junkers Ju-52 passenger airliner of the German owned Scadta Airline based in Columbia during a stop at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1939. | German children presenting flowers to SS-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Koppe, SS chief Heinrich Himmler, and Gauleiter of Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) Fritz Bracht, date unknown |
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| German hulk Amazone (left) and German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper (right) at Blohm und Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, 1939 | German MG34 machine gun crew, circa 1940s |
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| German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, date unknown | German troops training with a MG34 machine gun, 1939 |
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