25,043 items in this album on 1,253 pages.
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| Polish family doing chores outside their destroyed home, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939 | Polish TKS tankette (foreground), TK-3 tankette (behind TKS), 155 mm haubica wz. 1917 howitzers (right of photo), and another type of field guns (left of photo) captured by German forces, Poland, late Sep 1939 |
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| Portrait of Franklin Roosevelt at the destroyed US Consulate, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939 | Ruins in Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939 |
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| View of US Consulate, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939 | Waclawa Jadziak and her daughter Janina starting their trek out of Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939 |
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| Wall damaged by bullets, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939 | Horses employed by the German Army towing a 7.5 cm le.IG 18 infantry gun, Poland, Sep 1939 |
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| The grain silo at the intersection of Bema and Pradzynskiego Streets burning, Warsaw, Poland, Sep 1939 | Ethnic Byelorussian civilians in eastern Poland welcoming Soviet invaders, Poland, Sep 1939 |
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| HMS Courageous sinking in the Atlantic Ocean, 17 Sep 1939 | HMS Courageous sinking, Atlantic Ocean, 17 Sep 1939; photograph taken by a British Royal Navy sailor aboard an escorting vessel |
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| Launching of Console Generale Liuzzi, Tosi Shipyard at Taranto, Italy, 17 Sep 1939 | The Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland burning after being hit by German shellfire, 17 Sep 1939 |
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| Ferdinand Catlos at the market square outside the town hall of Sanok, Poland, circa late Sep 1939 | Ferdinand Catlos observing a destroyed rail bridge, Komancza, southern Poland, circa late Sep 1939 |
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| Ferdinand Catlos with Ukrainian civilians in Komancza village, southern Poland, Sep 1939, photo 1 of 3 | Ferdinand Catlos with Ukrainian civilians in Komancza village, southern Poland, Sep 1939, photo 2 of 3 |
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| Ferdinand Catlos with Ukrainian civilians in Komancza village, southern Poland, Sep 1939, photo 3 of 3 | Ferdinand Catlos, Augustín Malár, and others at the market square outside the town hall of Sanok, Poland, circa late Sep 1939 |
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