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Chinese soldier in exercise with a ZB vz. 26 machine gun, date unknown	Chinese soldier in German-style helmet, China, circa 1930s

Chinese soldier, circa 1939	Chinese soldiers operating a Russian-built T-26 light tank, China, circa late 1930s

Chinese soldiers with a Type 24 machine gun, China, circa late 1930s	Chinese Type 24 machine gun crew, China, circa late 1930s

Close up of a Bf 109 fighter's nose, circa late 1930s	Close-up of Gneisenau's forward 283-millimeter gun turrets, 1939-1940; Scharnhorst seen in background

Close-up view of a shaft of battleship Bismarck, 1939-1940	Close-up view of the propellers of battleship Bismarck, 1939-1940

Cockpit and flight controls in a Focke-Wulf 200 Condor bomber, circa late 1930s or early 1940s	Cockpit and instrumentation of IAR 80A aircraft, circa 1930s

Communist Chinese guerilla fighter, China, date unknown	Consolidated XPB2Y-1 Coronado flying boat, a later prototype, making a landing off the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, circa 1938.

Cruiser Nürnberg, late 1930s	Cruiser USS Trenton underway in the Main Channel at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1939.

D3A dive bomber of carrier Akagi in flight, circa late 1930s or early 1940s	D3A dive bombers with telescopic sights preparing for take off from an airfield, circa late 1930s or early 1940s

DC-5 prototype in flight, 1939. This plane later flew with the US Navy as an R3D-3.	Destroyer Grom, circa late 1930s