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Japanese troops in the suburbs of Hankou (now part of Wuhan), Hubei Province, China, late Oct 1938	Fanni Luukkonen aboard a train at Helsinki rail station, Finland, 27 Oct 1938

Fanni Luukkonen preparing to board a train at Helsinki rail station, Finland, 27 Oct 1938	Japanese troops celebrating the capture of Wuhan at the Wuhan military headquarteres, Hubei, China, 27 Oct 1938

Polish-German Jews being gathered for deportation, Nürnberg, Germany, 28 Oct 1938, photo 1 of 3	Polish-German Jews being gathered for deportation, Nürnberg, Germany, 28 Oct 1938, photo 2 of 3

Polish-German Jews being gathered for deportation, Nürnberg, Germany, 28 Oct 1938, photo 3 of 3	Commander Ernest G. Small of US Navy Destroyer Division Three with officers and crew of Drayton, San Diego, California, United States, circa late 1938

General Józef Zajac, President Stefan Starzynski, and others with an anti-aircraft artillery banner, Poland, Nov 1938	German generals Heinz Guderian and Reinhardt at Karlovy Vary (German: Karlsbad) in the Sudetenland region of occupied Czechoslovakia, circa Oct 1938

Japanese troops at Haizhu Bridge, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, circa late 1938	Japanese troops at Haizhu Bridge, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, circa late 1938

Japanese troops in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, circa late 1938; note Haizhu Bridge in background	Troops of Japanese 5th Division aboard a landing craft off Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 1938

Sargo underway during her trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Nov 1938, photo 1 of 3	Sargo underway during her trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Nov 1938, photo 2 of 3

Sargo underway during her trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Nov 1938, photo 3 of 3	Sergeant Major Timothy Carragher, Jonathan Wainwright, and Sergeant Major Frank Benegas at Fort Myer, Virginia, United States, 1 Nov 1938; Wainwright had just been promoted to the rank of brigadier general

Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky, Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Kálmán Kánya at the First Vienna Arbitration, 2 Nov 1938	Lieutenant General Daluege at a German police riding school in Rathenow, Germany, 2 Nov 1938