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| Finnish refugees moving west from Finnish territory recently annexed by the Soviet Union, 1940 | Finnish soldier with a LS/26 light machine gun, Finland, Feb 1940 | Finnish soldiers with Lahti-Saloranta M/26 light machine gun, Kuhmo, Finland, Feb 1940 | J2F-3 Duck aircraft at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 1940 |
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| PBY-4 Catalina aircraft of US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-21 on the seplane ramp at Naval Station Sangley Point in the Philippine Islands, circa early 1940 | Soviet T-26 Mod 1939 light tank in Finland, Feb 1940 | Keel laying of battleship Alabama, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, 1 Feb 1940 | A damaged 20mm machine gun mount on the upper platform of Admiral Graf Spee's forward superstructure, 2 Feb 1940 |
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| A hole 'large enough to crawl through' on the forward superstructure of Admiral Graf Spee, made by an 8in shell from Exeter, 2 Feb 1940 | A sailor of cruiser Helena studied Admiral Graf Spee's forward broadside director and range finder, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's collapsed smokestack and searchlight platform, seen from the port end of the forward superstructure, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's forward superstructure, looking aft, with the conning tower rangefinder in the foreground and the mainmast partially collapsed in the left background, 2 Feb 1940 |
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| Admiral Graf Spee's navigation bridge, in the forward superstructure tower, 2 Feb 1940; note the fire damage | Admiral Graf Spee's Number Four 15cm/55 gun mount, second gun in the forward port side group, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's Number Two 10.5cm/65 twin anti-aircraft gun mount, port side, amidships, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's open control position at the forward end of the superstructure, 2 Feb 1940; note target designators, directors, rangekeepers, ship speed and course indicators, ready lights, etc. |
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| Admiral Graf Spee's port side search platform, 2 Feb 1940; note search light, gun director, and a 20mm machine gun mounting in background | Admiral Graf Spee's starboard Number One 105mm/65 anti-aircraft gun mount, 2 Feb 1940 | Admiral Graf Spee's wreck in the River Plate, just off Montevideo, Uruguay, 2 Feb 1940 | At the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory in Australia, employees move a partly constructed Wirraway aircraft to a more advanced position in the assembly line, 2 Feb 1940 |
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