25,043 items in this album on 1,253 pages.
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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 3 of 3 | J. Edgar Hoover in his office, Washington DC, United States, 5 Apr 1940 |
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| Heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper embarking German troops for the invasion of Norway, 6 Apr 1940 | Settsu as radio-controlled target vessel, Kure, Japan, 7 Apr 1940 |
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| German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper or Blücher in the North Sea en route to Oslo, Norway, 8 Apr 1940; photo taken from light cruiser Emden seen in the foreground | German light cruiser Emden in the North Sea en route to Oslo, Norway, 8 Apr 1940 |
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| Blücher listing heavily to port, Oslofjord, Norway, 9 April 1940 | Danish machine gun team gathered for a photo hours before engaging with German invaders, Bredevad, Denmark, 9 Apr 1940; two of the men died later that day; note Madsen light machine gun |
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| Danish soldiers with a 20mm Madsen light machine gun at a crossroads in Åbenrå, Denmark, 9 Apr 1940 | German Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft over Denmark, 9 Apr 1940 |
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| German military journalist reporting from Copenhagen, Denmark on the day of its capitulation, 9 Apr 1940 | Königsberg under British aircraft attack, Bergen, Norway, 9 April 1940 |
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| Warspite and a British destroyer during Second Battle of Narvik, 13 Apr 1940 | Crew of an 8.8 cm FlaK gun in Denmark, 1940 |
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| German Oberleutnant Herbert Stemmer in front of a PzKpfw I tank, Norway, 18 Apr 1940 | Three German Neubaufahrzeug heavy tanks at Oslo, Norway, 19 Apr 1940 |
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| German Do 24 aircraft at Narvik, Norway, Apr 1940; note damaged buildings in background | German officer and troops with a 10.5 cm K 35(t) field gun at Hornbaek, Denmark, 1940 |
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| German Colonel General Erhard Milch inspecting Luftwaffe pilots, Trondheim, Norway, 23 Apr 1940; note Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers in background | USS New Mexico at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 24 Apr 1940 |
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