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USS New Orleans in drydock at the New York Navy Yard with crew members scraping the hull, 1936. Good view of the bow section that got blown off seven years later in the Battle of Tassafaronga.	Eleanor Roosevelt at the launching ceremony of carrier Yorktown, Newport News, Virginia, United States, 4 Apr 1936

Launching of carrier Yorktown, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, United States, 4 Apr 1936	Chinese Ambassador Xu Shiying preparing to present his credentials, Tokyo, Japan, 6 Apr 1936

USS Ranger (foreground), USS Lexington (center), and USS Saratoga (background) at anchor off Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii, 8 Apr 1936	BF2C-1 Goshawk fighter (right) at a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics hangar, United States, 10 Apr 1936; note NACA chief test pilot Melvin Gough in foreground

Submarine Pompano and destroyer Henley under construction at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 16 Apr 1936	Joseph Stalin with collective farmers Maria Demchenko and Praskovya Angelina at the 10th Congress of the Komsomol, Moscow, Russia, 18 Apr 1936

Hitler reviewing a military parade held in celebration of his 47th birthday, 20 Apr 1936; Blomberg, Göring, Raeder, and Rundstedt behind him	Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg and Colonel General Hans von Seeckt being saluted by honor guards of German 67th Infantry Regiment, 22 Apr 1936; that day was Seeckt's 70th birthday

Battleship Mutsu during reconstruction, Yokosuka, Japan, May 1936	Portrait of Yoshijiro Umezu, May 1936

Hitler Youth members exercising near the German Evangelical Church in Shanghai, China, 1 May 1936	Nazi Party gathering outside the museum at Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany, 1 May 1936, photo 1 of 7

Nazi Party gathering outside the museum at Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany, 1 May 1936, photo 2 of 7	Nazi Party gathering outside the museum at Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany, 1 May 1936, photo 3 of 7

Nazi Party gathering outside the museum at Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany, 1 May 1936, photo 4 of 7	Nazi Party gathering outside the museum at Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany, 1 May 1936, photo 5 of 7

Nazi Party gathering outside the museum at Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany, 1 May 1936, photo 6 of 7	Nazi Party gathering outside the museum at Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany, 1 May 1936, photo 7 of 7