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| Prime Minister Mackenzie King visiting No. 110 (City of Toronto) Squadron RCAF, 30 Jan 1940; note Lysander aircraft in background | Frozen dead Russian soldier in Finland, 31 Jan 1940 |
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| Battleship Bismarck under construction, Hamburg, Germany, Feb 1940 | Finnish Army M-26 light machine gun crew on the western bank of Viipuri Bay, Finland, 1940 |
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| Finnish gun in action near Impilahti, Finland, Feb 1940 | Finnish refugees moving west from Finnish territory recently annexed by the Soviet Union, 1940 |
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| Finnish soldier with a LS/26 light machine gun, Finland, Feb 1940 | Finnish soldiers with Lahti-Saloranta M/26 light machine gun, Kuhmo, Finland, Feb 1940 |
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| J2F-3 Duck aircraft at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 1940 | PBY-4 Catalina aircraft of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-21 on the seplane ramp at Naval Station Sangley Point in the Philippine Islands, circa early 1940 |
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| Soviet T-26 Mod 1939 light tank in Finland, Feb 1940 | Keel laying of battleship Alabama, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 1 Feb 1940 |
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| A damaged 20mm machine gun mount on the upper platform of Admiral Graf Spee's forward superstructure, 2 Feb 1940 | A hole 'large enough to crawl through' on the forward superstructure of Admiral Graf Spee, made by an 8in shell from Exeter, 2 Feb 1940 |
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| A sailor of cruiser Helena studied Admiral Graf Spee's forward broadside director and range finder, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's collapsed smokestack and searchlight platform, seen from the port end of the forward superstructure, 2 Feb 1940 |
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| Admiral Graf Spee's forward superstructure, looking aft, with the conning tower rangefinder in the foreground and the mainmast partially collapsed in the left background, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's navigation bridge, in the forward superstructure tower, 2 Feb 1940; note the fire damage |
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| Admiral Graf Spee's Number Four 15cm/55 gun mount, second gun in the forward port side group, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's Number Two 10.5cm/65 twin anti-aircraft gun mount, port side, amidships, 2 Feb 1940 |
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