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Fubuki-class destroyer Amagiri in port, Nov 1930	General Douglas MacArthur (left) sharing a laugh with New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt (right) and Secretary of War George Dorn (center) shortly after MacArthur was appointed Army Chief of Staff, Nov 1930.

German maintenance crew in the wing area of the Do X aircraft, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Nov 1930	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 in Drydock No. 2 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), China, circa 1931

Crewmen of Königsberg on her foredeck, circa 1931	Do X aircraft in flight over Balticum, Italy, 1930-1931