25,043 items in this album on 1,253 pages.
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| Ruined city block in Cherbourg, France, 1940 | Soviet officer receiving flowers from a civilian in Lithuania, Jun 1940 |
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| TBD-1 Devastator aircraft aboard Yorktown at Naval Air Station, San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1940; note 3 of them were painted in experimental color scheme used during Fleet Problem XXI | Temporary grave for a soldier amidst destroyed cars and damaged buildings, Calais, France, May 1940 |
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| Two men of a German military film unit at work on a bridge in Denmark, 1940 | USS Ranger with her rails manned, 1940. |
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| View of boiler room from the lower deck abord damaged HMS Kelly, Hawthorn Leslie yard, Hebburn, England, United Kingdom, mid-1940 | Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator dive bomber of Scouting Squadron VS-72 on the deck-edge elevator of USS Wasp (Wasp-class) at Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, Jun 1940. |
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| WW1 monument of Martincourt sur Meuse, France damaged after May 1940 fighting | Yorktown (Yorktown-class) at Naval Air Station, San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1940; note presence of TBD-1, BT-1, SBC-3, F3F-2, F3F-3, SB2U, JRF, J2F and JRS-1 aircraft models. Photo 1 of 2. |
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| Yorktown (Yorktown-class) at Naval Air Station, San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1940; note presence of TBD-1, BT-1, SBC-3, F3F-2, F3F-3, SB2U, JRF, J2F and JRS-1 aircraft models. Photo 2 of 2. | Aerial view of burned out trucks at Calais, France, 1 Jun 1940 |
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| Destroyed houses and church in Calais, France, afternoon of 1 Jun 1940 | Destruction in the waterfront area of Calais, France, at 1230 hours on 1 Jun 1940 |
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| Launching of battleship Washington, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, United States, 1 Jun 1940, photo 1 of 2 | Launching of battleship Washington, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, United States, 1 Jun 1940, photo 2 of 2 |
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| Burning railway car at the rail station in Calais, France, 4 Jun 1940 | Aircraft Mechanic Class 2A posing for their graduation photo in front of a B-18 Bolo bomber at Hickam Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 5 Jun 1940 |
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| German military camera crew filming in Dunkerque, France shortly after the conquest, Jun 1940 | Sun Li-jen and his concubine Zhang Meiying, China, 5 Jun 1940 |
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