5,927 items in this album on 297 pages.
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| Slovakian Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Slovakian President Jozef Tiso, Salzburg, German-occupied Austria, 29 Jul 1940 | Communist Chinese officers Chen Yi and Su Yu during the Huangqiao battle against Nationalist Chinese forces, Jiangsu Province, China, mid-1940 |
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| Hugh Dowding and Douglas Bader, circa 1940 | James Lacey, circa 1940 |
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| Rear Admiral Walter Warzecha (right), Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann (front row, next to Warzecha) aboard Horst Wessel, Germany, Aug 1940 | Adolf Hitler awarding Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach the Nazi Party Gold Medal, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany, 13 Aug 1940 |
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| British General Edward Spears and French General Charles de Gaulle aboard Dutch ship Westernland en route to Dakar, French West Africa, Sep 1940 | Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten on the bridge of destroyer HMS Kelvin, Sep 1940 |
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| Founder of the University of Bucharest Anthropological Institute, Francisc Rainer, showing items in the institute's collection to King Mihai I of Romania and the Queen Mother Helen of Greece and Denmark, Bucharest, Romania, fall of 1940 | Fritz Todt on the radio in a Panzerkampfwagen III tank while observing the preparation of German forces on the French coast for the invasion of Britain, fall 1940 |
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| German Luftwaffe Bruno Loerzer, Hermann Göring, and Adolf Galland visiting an airfield in Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940 | German Luftwaffe Colonel-General Bruno Loerzer, Field Marshal Hermann Göring, and Major General Adolf Galland inspecting an airfield in Belgium or France, Sep 1940 |
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| Portrait of Second Lieutenant Simo Häyhä, 1940s; note facial deformity caused by combat wound | Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, and Air Chief Marshal Dowding at RAF Bentley Priory, London, England, United Kingdom, Sep 1940 |
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| Ramón Serrano Suñer and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin, Germany, Sep 1940 | Emperor Kangde of the puppet state of Manchukuo arriving at the dedication ceremony of the Manchukuo National Martyr Shrine, Xinjing (Changchun), China, 18 Sep 1940 |
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| Emperor Kangde of the puppet state of Manchukuo leaving at the dedication ceremony of the Manchukuo National Martyr Shrine, Xinjing (Changchun), China, 18 Sep 1940 | Zhang Jinghui and other Manchukuo officials at the dedication of the Manchukuo National Martyr Shrine, Xinjing (Changchun), China, 18 Sep 1940 |
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| King Christian X of Denmark riding through Copenhagen on his 70th birthday, 26 Sep 1940 | The signing of the Tripartite Pact at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 27 Sep 1940. The signers are, left to right, Galeazzo Ciano of Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany, and Saburo Kurusu of Japan. |
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