25,043 items in this album on 1,253 pages.
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| Battleship Kirishima at Kure, Japan, 10 Mar 1940 | Finnish coastal defense ship Ilmarinen anchored at Turku harbor, Finland, 10 Mar 1940 |
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| Soviet TB-3 heavy bomber captured by Finnish forces, Kuhmo-Sauna Lake, Kainuu, Finland, 14 Mar 1940 | Soviet TB-3 heavy bomber captured by Finnish forces, Kuhmo-Sauna Lake, Kainuu, Finland, 14 Mar 1940 |
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| Finnish Canet 152mm/45 naval gun in coastal defense role, Hästö-Busö island, Raseborg, Finland, 18 Mar 1940 | Result of Lieutenant Jimmy Thach's landing accident aboard USS Saratoga, 19 Mar 1940 |
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| Officers and crew of USS Louisville, San Pedro, California, United States, 23 Mar 1940 | Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai speaking to children of his home town who had recently lost their fathers in service during the war, Japan, 29 Mar 1940 |
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| Scientists of the S-1 project (Manhattan Committee) sharing a lighter moment as they discuss the feasibility of the 184-inch cyclotron at Berkeley, California, United States, 29 Mar 1940. | Gladiator fighter of Flying Regiment 19 'Swedish Voluntary Air Force' of the Finnish Air Force, Kauhava, Finland, 30 Mar 1940 |
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| Japanese bringing Wang Jingwei's mother to Nanjing, China as a virtual prisoner to better control Wang Jingwei and his puppet government, Apr 1940 | Norwegian He 115N aircraft F.60 at rest, Norway, circa 14 Jul 1939 to 9 Apr 1940 |
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| Portrait of a Nikolaus Falkenhorst, Apr 1940 | Straight down aerial view of the piers and drydocks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States full of battleships and one carrier, USS Enterprise, 1940. |
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| Men of D Company, 2nd Sherwood Foresters, UK 1st Division in a forward trench near Roches, France, 1 Apr 1940; Lance Corporal L. J. Harris seen shaving | South Dakota under construction at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, United States, 1 Apr 1940 |
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| Submarine Gar under construction, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 1 Apr 1940, photo 1 of 2; topside bow view looking aft | Submarine Gar under construction, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 1 Apr 1940, photo 2 of 2; topside stern view looking forward |
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| Experimental A-17A aircraft at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia, United States, 3 Apr 1940, photo 1 of 3 | Experimental A-17A aircraft at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia, United States, 3 Apr 1940, photo 2 of 3 |
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