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Sailors washing down the decks aboard HMS Rodney, Aug 1940	Two DH.89A Rapide air ambulance aircraft at RAF Hendon, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom circa Aug 1940

Two DH.89A Rapide air ambulance aircraft over RAF Hendon, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom circa Aug 1940	XFL Airabonita aircraft (US Navy Bureau No. 1588) at rest, mid-1940

Light Tank Mk VIB vehicles of UK 7th Armoured Division in North Africa, 2 Aug 1940	Adolf Hitler awarding Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach the Nazi Party Gold Medal, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany, 13 Aug 1940

Destroyed Adam Mickiewicz Monument at the Main Market Square, Old Town, Kraków, Poland, 17 Aug 1940	German occupation administration destroying Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków, Poland, 17 Aug 1940

Wreckage of a Do 17 aircraft in Britain, 18 Aug 1940	Working on the rudder of battleship North Carolina, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 19 Aug 1940

TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron 3 with McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 7, Naval Air Station, North Island, California, United States, 22 Aug 1940, photo 1 of 3	TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron 3 with McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 7, Naval Air Station, North Island, California, United States, 22 Aug 1940, photo 2 of 3

TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron 3 with McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 7, Naval Air Station, North Island, California, United States, 22 Aug 1940, photo 3 of 3	TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron 3 with McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 8, Naval Air Station, North Island, California, United States, 22 Aug 1940, photo 1 of 3

TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron 3 with McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 8, Naval Air Station, North Island, California, United States, 22 Aug 1940, photo 2 of 3	TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron 3 with McClelland Barclay experimental camouflage design number 8, Naval Air Station, North Island, California, United States, 22 Aug 1940, photo 3 of 3

Floating Drydock YFD-2 arriving in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 Aug 1940. Note that it is still painted with markings from the Naval Station at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.	British 9.2-inch coastal artillery gun crew in exercise, Culver Point Battery, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, 24 Aug 1940

Commissioning ceremony of German battleship Bismarck, 24 Aug 1940, photo 01 of 10	Commissioning ceremony of German battleship Bismarck, 24 Aug 1940, photo 02 of 10; Captain Ernst Lindemann coming aboard