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Japanese troops preparing to launch chemical artillery shells, China, circa late 1930s	Japanese truck stuck in flood waters, circa late 1930s

Japanese Type 89 grenade launcher crew, China, circa late 1937 to early 1938	Japanese Type 94 Te-Ke tankette crossing a bridge in China, circa late 1930s

Japanese Type 97 motorcycle with sidecar in China, 1938	Japanese warships seen from a British ship (Ryujo (nearest), Kaga (background center), identified carrier (obscured by Ryujo), a Nachi-class cruiser (background right), and a Kongo-class battleship (obscured by Nachi-class cruiser)), probably in a Chinese harbor, late 1930s

Joris Ivens, John Fernhout, and Robert Capa with two young militiamen at the Guangdong Anti-Japanese Volunteer Force's Zhongshan headquarters, Guangdong Province, China, 1938	JRS-1 aircraft of US Marine Corps VMJ-1 squadron in flight, late 1930s; seen in Mar/Apr 1987 edition of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

JRS-1 aircraft of US Navy VJ-1 squadron in flight, probably near San Diego, California, United States, late 1930s; seen in Mar/Apr 1987 edition of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	Ju 52 aircraft of Eurasia Aviation Corporation, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, at Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon Hong Kong, 1930s

Ju 87 resting at an airfield, circa late 1930s	Ki-10 aircraft, circa 1930s

Ki-30 aircraft in flight, circa 1930s	Killed Chinese boy near Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-early 1938; it was said that he was killed by rifle butt blow because he did not remove his hat before Japanese soldiers

Kongo, circa late 1930s	Königsberg at Swinemunde, Germany, with a sentry on guard in the foreground, 1938

Launching ceremony of Arendskerk, F. Schichau shipyard, Danzig, 1938	Li Zongren, Chiang Kaishek, and Bai Chongxi, 1938

Lidice, Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. Courtyard of the Horák family farm. The X marks the entrance to the cellars where the village men were gathered on the night of 9 Jun 1942.