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Slovakian Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Slovakian President Jozef Tiso, Salzburg, German-occupied Austria, 29 Jul 1940	Communist Chinese officers Chen Yi and Su Yu during the Huangqiao battle against Nationalist Chinese forces, Jiangsu Province, China, mid-1940	Hugh Dowding and Douglas Bader, circa 1940	James Lacey, circa 1940

Rear Admiral Walter Warzecha (right), Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann (front row, next to Warzecha) aboard Horst Wessel, Germany, Aug 1940	Adolf Hitler awarding Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach the Nazi Party Gold Medal, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany, 13 Aug 1940	British General Edward Spears and French General Charles de Gaulle aboard Dutch ship Westernland en route to Dakar, French West Africa, Sep 1940	Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten on the bridge of destroyer HMS Kelvin, Sep 1940

Founder of the University of Bucharest Anthropological Institute, Francisc Rainer, showing items in the institute's collection to King Mihai I of Romania and the Queen Mother Helen of Greece and Denmark, Bucharest, Romania, fall of 1940	Fritz Todt on the radio in a Panzerkampfwagen III tank while observing the preparation of German forces on the French coast for the invasion of Britain, fall 1940	German Luftwaffe Bruno Loerzer, Hermann Göring, and Adolf Galland visiting an airfield in Belgium or France, Sep-Oct 1940	German Luftwaffe Colonel-General Bruno Loerzer, Field Marshal Hermann Göring, and Major General Adolf Galland inspecting an airfield in Belgium or France, Sep 1940

Portrait of Second Lieutenant Simo Häyhä, 1940s; note facial deformity caused by combat wound	Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, and Air Chief Marshal Dowding at RAF Bentley Priory, London, England, United Kingdom, Sep 1940	Ramón Serrano Suñer and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin, Germany, Sep 1940	Emperor Kangde of the puppet state of Manchukuo arriving at the dedication ceremony of the Manchukuo National Martyr Shrine, Xinjing (Changchun), China, 18 Sep 1940

Emperor Kangde of the puppet state of Manchukuo leaving at the dedication ceremony of the Manchukuo National Martyr Shrine, Xinjing (Changchun), China, 18 Sep 1940	Zhang Jinghui and other Manchukuo officials at the dedication of the Manchukuo National Martyr Shrine, Xinjing (Changchun), China, 18 Sep 1940	King Christian X of Denmark riding through Copenhagen on his 70th birthday, 26 Sep 1940	The signing of the Tripartite Pact at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 27 Sep 1940. The signers are, left to right, Galeazzo Ciano of Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany, and Saburo Kurusu of Japan.