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USS Oklahoma off the Philadelphia Navy Yard after modernization, Pennsylvania, United States, 21 Aug 1929	German airship Graf Zeppelin seen moored to a temporary mooring mast at Mines Field, Inglewood, California after arriving from Japan on her around-the-world flight, 26 Aug 1929. Photo 1 of 2.

German airship Graf Zeppelin seen moored to a temporary mooring mast at Mines Field, Inglewood, California after arriving from Japan on her around-the-world flight, 26 Aug 1929. Photo 2 of 2.	Screws and stern of the cruiser Northampton on the ways ten days before her launching, Bethlehem Steel Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, 26 Aug 1929. Note the man standing on the scaffold next to the propeller shaft.

The Goodyear blimp alongside German airship Graf Zeppelin moored at a temporary mooring mast at Mines Field, Inglewood, California after arriving from Japan on her around-the-world flight, 26 Aug 1929.	Benito Mussolini aboard battleship Italia, Genoa, Italy, Sep 1929

Benito Mussolini during a military maneuver, Sep 1929	Devonshire as seen in an issue of The Naval and Military Record, photo taken circa 1929

Devonshire as seen in the 21 Aug 1929 issue of The Naval and Military Record, photo taken circa 1929 at Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, after turret explosion	Devonshire as seen in the 23 Nov 1933 issue of The Naval and Military Record, photo taken circa 1929

HMS Repulse firing her guns, Sep 1929	The battleships Nevada (background) and Arizona (foreground) being overhauled at the Norfolk Navy Yard, late 1929. Note Arizona’s new tripod masts that became so iconic in photos from the Pearl Harbor Attack.

Japanese passenger liner Asama Maru, Shanghai, China, circa late 1929	Crew and passengers of Do X aircraft, Thal, Switzerland, 21 Oct 1929, photo 1 of 2

Crew and passengers of Do X aircraft, Thal, Switzerland, 21 Oct 1929, photo 2 of 2	Do X aircraft on Lake Constance, Altenrhein, Switzerland, 21 Oct 1929

Passenger boats pulling up next to Do X aircraft on Lake Constance, Altenrhein, Switzerland, 21 Oct 1929	Passengers aboard Do X aircraft as it broke a world record of total passengers aboard, on Lake Constance on the border of Germany and Switzerland, 21 Oct 1929

Flight line at Mines Field, Inglewood, California, Nov 1929. Hangar No. 1 is seen at left with Hangars 2, 3, and 4 beyond.	A stern view of submarine V-5 (later Narwhal) shortly before launching at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 17 Dec 1929. Note the stern torpedo tubes just above the rudder.