11,161 items in this album on 559 pages.
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Soviet troops with captured Japanese field guns, Nomonhan, Mongolia Area, China, Aug 1939 | Soviet troops with captured Japanese Type 95 scout car, Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Mongolia Area, China, 1939 | Letter to president Roosevelt drafted by physicist Leó Szilárd with assistance from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner and then signed by Albert Einstein urging the development of nuclear energy, 2 Aug 1939, page 1 of 2 | Letter to president Roosevelt drafted by physicist Leó Szilárd with assistance from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner and then signed by Albert Einstein urging the development of nuclear energy, 2 Aug 1939, page 2 of 2 |
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Portrait of a Japanese family which had gathered to bid farewell for a family member who was joining the army, Suwa, Nagano, Japan, 17 Aug 1939 | Gauleiter Erich Koch, Govt Secretary Landfried, Govt Secretary Pfundtner, and Danzig Senate President Arthur Greiser inspecting a model of Königsberg while visting that German city, 20 Aug 1939 | Nazi Party female labor service camp, Nürnberg, Germany, late Aug 1939 | Ribbentrop signing the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, Moscow, Russia, 23 Aug 1939, photo 3 of 3; Boris Shaposhnikov and Joseph Stalin in back row |
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Polish destroyers Grom and Burza during Operation Peking, viewed from destroyer Błyskawica, circa 29 Aug-1 Sep 1939 | Soon-to-be Prime Minister Nobuyuki Abe having just announced his selection of cabinet ministers, Tokyo, Japan, 29 Aug 1939 | Portrait of C. Alfred Anderson as seen on his United States Civil Aeronautics Authority identification card No. 7638 issued on 31 Aug 1939 | A flight of three German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers taking off, Poland, Sep 1939 |
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Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura meeting journalists immediately following his appointment as the Foreign Minister, Tokyo, Japan, Sep 1939 | Destroyer USS Ward off Mare Island, California, Sep 1939. Two years later, this ship would go on to fire the United States’ first shot of the Pacific War. | Foundation ceremony of the Japanese puppet nation of Mengjiang, Kalgan (now Zhangjiakou), Chahar Province, China, Sep 1939; Demchugdongrub's name in Chinese on the upper right portion, thus he might be the speaker in the photograph | Franz Halder and Walther von Brauchitsch studying a map during the Poland campaign, Sep 1939 |
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German crew of a He 111 bomber resting on an airfield, East Prussia, Germany, Sep 1939 | Lord Lothian listening to short wave radio, Sep 1939 | Members of the League of German Girls on farming duty, Sep 1939 | Wellington bombers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, shortly before they were given to United Kingdom for the war effort in the west, Aug-Sep 1939 |
11,161 items in this album on 559 pages.