7 Mar 1937
  • Benito Mussolini's Blackshirts, now formed into two divisions and supported by 250 light tanks and 180 guns, their right flank supported by a mixed brigade of regulares, Requetés and Falangists began their advance aiming for Guadalajara, Spain to the northeast of Madrid, Spain on the main Madrid-Saragossa highway which was allotted as their main approach axis. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]
Photo(s) dated 7 Mar 1937
Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe with his cabinet ministers, Tokyo, Japan, 7 Mar 1937; note Minister for Foreign Affairs Koki Hirota (left edge of photograph) and Minister for Navy Mitsumasa Yonai (rear row in naval uniform)

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