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German mechanic inspecting the Do X aircraft, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Nov 1930	German pilot Christiansen, American pilot Schildhauer, and others at an open window of a Do X flying boat before making a trans-Atlantic flight from Europe to North America, Nov 1930

German pilot Christiansen, American pilot Schildhauer, and others posing with a Do X flying boat before making a trans-Atlantic flight from Europe to North America, Nov 1930	German pilot Friedrich Christiansen at an open window of a Do X flying boat, Nov 1930

Heavy cruiser USS Chester at Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States, Nov 1930.	Rear view of Do X aircraft, Nov 1930

Row of engines of Do X flying boat, Nov 1930	USS Saratoga at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 17 Nov 1930

20 R-class submarines of US Navy Submarine Divisions 9 and 14 at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 12 Dec 1930. Note the repair piers and floating crane YD-25 in the distance.	Anti-aircraft gunnery drill aboard Königsberg, circa 1931

Battleship Parizhskaia Kommuna, probably at Sevastopol, Russia, 1931	Benito Mussolini speaking to a crowd in Rome, Italy, circa 1931

Benito Mussolini standing next to a worker, Ostia, Rome, Italy, 1931	Chinese warlords Wu Peifu and Zhang Xueliang, Beiping, China, 1931

Comtesse Ciano (daughter of Mussolini and husband of Ciano; center), Zhang Xueliang, W. D. Donald (Zhang's advisor; back row), and Yu Fengzhi (Zhang's wife; far right), circa 1931	Crewmen of Königsberg on her foredeck, circa 1931

Do X aircraft in flight over Balticum, Italy, 1930-1931	Emden in the Yantze River en route to Nanjing, China, 1931

Former Greek monarch George II and his wife Elisabeth of Romania in London, England, United Kingdom, circa 1931	German pilot Theodor Osterkamp, Berlin, Germany, 1931