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Prisoners, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 20 Jul 1938	Prisoners, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 20 Jul 1938

Prisoners, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 20 Jul 1938	Prisoners, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 20 Jul 1938

Prisoners, Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 20 Jul 1938	Émile Bertin at Calais, France, 22 Jul 1938

Protest against the Japanese invasion of China, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, 25 Jul 1938	An early photo looking toward the sea at the single runway at Bellows Field, Oahu, Hawaii, Jul 26, 1938.

A Japanese soldier oversaw Chinese laborers in the rebuilding of Yellow River dikes, Henan, China, circa mid- or late-1938	Chinese soldiers at the Yangtze River near Wuhan, China, circa Aug-Oct 1938

French Air Force Chief of Staff General Vuillemin inspecting the JG 2 of the German Air Force, with German Generals Erhard Milch and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Aug 1938	Gneisenau, Admiral Graf Spee, Admiral Scheer, and Deutschland steamed in a line during the German Naval Review of Aug 1938

HMS Hermes, Aug 1938	Latécoère 298 aircraft at rest, date unknown; seen in the Aug 1938 issue of L'Aerophile magazine

Map of the Battle of Wuhan	Norman Scott and other US Naval Mission staff officers, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug 1938

Port side view of Mikuma's smokestack, Aug 1938; dual stripes indicate memberships in Sentai 7	USS Enterprise at anchor, 1938-40, location unknown

HMS York at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 10 Aug 1938	Hitler Youth members dining at the German embassy in Japan, 16 Aug 1938