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USS Permit underway, circa mid-1937	USS Permit underway, circa mid-1937

Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg (center) and his adjutant Captain Lieutenant Hubert von Wangenheim aboard Horst Wessel, Germany, 1 May 1937	Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg inspecting the crew of Horst Wessel, accompanied by Captain Thiele and another officer, Germany, 1 May 1937

Hitler Youth, Bund girls, and naval Hitler Youth children on a parade ground, Germany, 1 May 1937	Nazi Party youth organization members at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, Germany, 1 May 1937

British Ambassador in Berlin Sir Nevile Henderson, 5 May 1937	Launching of Wilhelm Gustloff, Slip VII of Blohm und Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, 5 May 1937

Prof. Troost, Hitler, Mrs. Troost, Adolf Ziegler (President of the Academy of Fine Arts), and Goebbels at the House of German Art, Munich, Germany, 5 May 1937	Kirishima in Tsukumo Bay, Japan, 10 May 1937, after her 1935 modernization

B2M, A2N, and Ki-4 aircraft operating aboard carrier Kaga, 11 May 1937	King George VI of the United Kingdom with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King at the Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom, 11 May 1937

View of the edge of Kaga's flight deck, 11 May 1937	Ba Maw in traditional Burmese clothing at King George VI coronation, Westminster Abbey, London, England, United Kingdom, 12 May 1937

US Coast Guard cutter John C. Spencer departing on her maiden voyage to US Territory of Alaska from New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, 19 May 1937	Hubei Province Chairman Huang Shaohong, Nationalist Party military instructor General Jiang Fangzhen (courtesy name Baili), and Italian Finance Minister Alberto De Stefani at Hankou, Hubei Province, China, 20 May 1937

Admiral Graf Spee at the Coronation Naval Review in The Solent strait, southern England, United Kingdom, 22 May 1937	Bagley-class destroyers Blue and Helm on 27 May 1937, the date of their launching, in Drydock #2 at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States.

Model of Nazi Party rallying ground at Nürnberg, Germany on display at the Germany House of the Paris World's Fair, 29 May 1937	United States Navy photo of the cruiser HMS Cumberland on the Yangtze River, China below Hankow (now Hankou), 30 May 1937.