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Destroyed Russian T-26 light tank, Finland, 13 Feb 1940	Altmark at Jøssingfjord, Norway, 16 Feb 1940	Roosevelt and his Naval Aide, Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, taking the salute of a composite Battalion of the 14th Infantry at Gatun Locks, Panama Canal Zone, 18 Feb 1940	Finnish soldiers on skis with reindeers, near Jäniskoski, northern Finland, 20 Feb 1940

Finnish Army machine gun crew near Lemetti, Karjala, Finland (now Pitkyarantsky, Russia), 21 Feb 1940; note Maxim M32/33 machine gun	Blenheim light bomber of the RAF being towed away by horses after landing on the frozen Jukajärvi lake, near Juva village, Finland, 25 Feb 1940	Aerial view of the piers and drydocks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 1940.	Captured Soviet equipment, Lemetti, Finland, Mar 1940

French MS.406 fighters assigned to the Polish Montpellier Group in France, Mar 1940	German Army Lieutenant Colonel Julius von Bernuth and Major General Erwin Rommel, near the Moselle River, Germany, early 1940	German Panzer IV tank, spring 1940	Luxury liner Nitta Maru, off Nagasaki, Japan, Mar 1940; she was converted to escort carrier Chuyo during the war

Naval Aviation Cadets from the Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi practicing formation flying in Chance-Vought OS2U Kingfisher float aircraft, Texas, United States, circa early 1940.	Polish Jews being gathered by German police as forced laborers, near St. Anne's Church on Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street, Warsaw, Poland, Mar 1940	Portrait of Fritz Todt, Mar 1940	Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, Jan-Jul 1940

USS New Mexico, circa spring 1940, photo 1 of 2	USS New Mexico, circa spring 1940, photo 2 of 2	Soviet soldier in prone position with rifle and shield, Viipuri, Finland, 4 Mar 1940	Ruins of the Havi quarter of Vyborg, Finland, 8 Mar 1940