Early WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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Curator of the Louvre Fernand Merlin giving German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt a tour of the museum, Paris, France, Oct 1940; note Venus de Milo status in foreground	Evacuated German children in a class at a Kinderlandverschickung camp, Germany, Oct 1940

G.50 aircraft in flight above Albania or Greece, circa late 1940	German coastal gun crew in exercise, Denmark, 1940

German Luftwaffe Oberstleutnant Werner Mölders and his wingman Oberleutnant Georg Claus, circa mid-1940	German Me 110 aircraft of ZG 26 'Horst Wessel' refueling in France, Oct 1940

Governor-General Alexander Cambridge and Prime Minister Mackenzie King visiting the Valcartier military base in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Oct 1940	Japanese shipborne seachlight, circa Sep-Nov 1940

Major Werner Mölders and Hauptmann Arthur Laumann, Sep-Oct 1940	Portrait of Major Werner Mölders, Oct 1940; note Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves medal

Secondary training aircraft at Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, 1940. Foreground: Vultee SNV-1 Valiant; Background: Beech SNB-1 Kansan and two North American Texans, one Navy SNJ and one Army AT-6	The Record Office in London, England, United Kingdom lit by a large fire, 1940

US Navy recruiting poster by Matt Murphey, Oct 1940; note destroyer Drayton featured in the poster	USS Arizona, USS New Mexico, and USS West Virginia during fleet operations, Oct 1940

View of 2-pdr gun and two sailors aboard HMS Rodney, Firth of Forth, Scotland, United Kingdom, Oct 1940	View of a German airfield in France or Belgium, Sep-Oct 1940; note Do 17 bomber on the field

View of the sick bay aboard HMS Rodney, Oct 1940	Canadian boy chasing after his father, a member of the Canadian Army British Columbia Regiment, who was on march in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, 1 Oct 1940

Handley Page Hampden crewmembers of No. 83 Squadron RAF Bomber Command arriving at their aircraft in a lorry driven by a WAAF member, RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 2 Oct 1940	British Cruiser Mk IV tanks being loaded onto railway trucks at an Egyptian quayside after being unloaded from ships, 5 Oct 1940