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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	German Bf 109E fighters in flight over Kent, England, United Kingdom, 1940; note 'Chain Home' radar towers in background

German bomb marked for Churchill being loaded onto a bomber aircraft in France or Belgium, Aug-Sep 1940	German He 111 Doppel-Blitz bomber of KG 53 in flight over Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940

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

German Luftwaffe Do 17 bombers of KG 3 on an airfield, Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940	Homeless children in front of their wrecked home, eastern London suburb, Sep 1940

M.14 Magister aircraft of No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School preparing for flight at Woodley Aerodrome, Woodley, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Sep 1940	Officers and men aboard HMS Rodney observing a naval aviation parade, Sep 1940; note Rodney's primary guns at maximum elevation

Portrait of Second Lieutenant Simo Häyhä, 1940s; note facial deformity caused by combat wound	QF 2-pdr Mk VIII anti-aircraft gun mount and crew aboard HMS Rodney, Sep 1940

Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, and Air Chief Marshal Dowding at RAF Bentley Priory, London, England, United Kingdom, Sep 1940	Ramón Serrano Suñer and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin, Germany, Sep 1940

Sailors cleaning one of the 16-inch guns aboard HMS Rodney, Sep 1940	View of the torpedo room aboard HMS Rodney, Sep 1940

Cruiser Mk IV tanks of British 3rd Royal Tank Regiment in a village in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, 3 Sep 1940	Cruiser Mk IV tanks of British 3rd Royal Tank Regiment on exercise in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, 3 Sep 1940, photo 1 of 2

Cruiser Mk IV tanks of British 3rd Royal Tank Regiment on exercise in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, 3 Sep 1940, photo 2 of 2	O'Brien's historical data plaque, photo taken at Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, 3 Sep 1940