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Chinese soldiers near Shanghai, China, Aug-Sep 1937	Chinese troops using a camouflaged rangefinder in Shanghai, China, 1937

Chinese Type 24 machine gun crew, Shanghai, China, 1937	Communist Chinese machine gun crew of Eighth Route Army near the Great Wall, Laiyuan Hebei Province, China, Sep 1937

Gao Zhihang in the hospital recuperating from injuries sustained on 15 Aug 1937	Japanese Army biplane dropping a bomb over China, 1937

Japanese soldiers fighting in streets of Shanghai, China, Aug-Oct 1937	Japanese soldiers inspecting downed Chinese Hawk III fighter 'Ningbo Special' (No. 2503), Far East Stadium, Shanghai, China, Aug-Sep 1937

Japanese troops landing at Jinshanwei on the coast of Hangzhou Bay near Shanghai, China, Aug-Oct 1937	Men of Chinese 88th Division defending a street intersection, Shanghai, China, Sep-Oct 1937

Mussolini and Hitler in a Daimler-Benz Type G4/W31 limousine during German Army maneuvers in Mecklenburg and Pomerania, Germany, Sep 1937; Colonel Friedrich Hoßbach seated behind Hitler	Smoke above Zhabei district of Shanghai, China, Aug-Sep 1937

Soldiers of Chinese 88th Division gathering at a street corner in Shanghai, China, 1937	Sunken ships in the Yangtze River near Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China, Aug-Sep 1937; they were sunken to prevent Japanese from sailing up river

T-26 Model 1933 light tank of the XI International Brigade, Battle of Belchite, Spain, early Sep 1937	US Marines in Shanghai, China, mid-1937; note M1917 helmets, Thompson submachine gun, M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, and M1917 machine gun

USS Enterprise underway, circa 1937, location unknown	ZB vz. 26 light machine gun team of Chinese 87th Division at a barricade in the street of Shanghai, China, Sep-Oct 1937, photo 1 of 2

ZB vz. 26 light machine gun team of Chinese 87th Division at a barricade in the street of Shanghai, China, Sep-Oct 1937, photo 2 of 2	Japanese troops scaling a wall, Baoshan County, Zhejiang, China, 3 Sep 1937