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Launch of submarine Tautog, 27 Jan 1940	Prime Minister Mackenzie King visiting No. 110 (City of Toronto) Squadron RCAF, 30 Jan 1940; note Lysander aircraft in background	Schlesien in the western Baltic, late Jan 1940	Frozen dead Russian soldier in Finland, 31 Jan 1940

Battleship Bismarck under construction, Hamburg, Germany, Feb 1940	Finnish Army M-26 light machine gun crew on the western bank of Viipuri Bay, Finland, 1940	Finnish gun in action near Impilahti, Finland, Feb 1940	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	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	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	Admiral Graf Spee's navigation bridge, in the forward superstructure tower, 2 Feb 1940; note the fire damage