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Finnish 76-mm field gun camouflaged in snowy terrain, Viipuri, Finland, 9 Mar 1940	Adolf Hitler at Memorial Day celebration with Wilhelm Keitel, Walther von Brauchitsch, Erich Raeder, and Hermann Göring (behind Hitler), Berlin, Germany, 10 Mar 1940	Battleship Kirishima at Kure, Japan, 10 Mar 1940	Finnish coastal defense ship Ilmarinen anchored at Turku harbor, Finland, 10 Mar 1940

Soviet TB-3 heavy bomber captured by Finnish forces, Kuhmo-Sauna Lake, Kainuu, Finland, 14 Mar 1940	Soviet TB-3 heavy bomber captured by Finnish forces, Kuhmo-Sauna Lake, Kainuu, Finland, 14 Mar 1940	Captain Albert C. Read inspected Saratoga's Marine detachment, 15 Mar 1940	Finnish Canet 152mm/45 naval gun in coastal defense role, Hästö-Busö island, Raseborg, Finland, 18 Mar 1940

Result of Lieutenant Jimmy Thach's landing accident aboard USS Saratoga, 19 Mar 1940	Officers and crew of USS Louisville, San Pedro, California, United States, 23 Mar 1940	General Victor Denain, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, and General Józef Zajac at the Polish Air Force training center at Bron, Poland, 27 Mar 1940; note MS 406 fighters	Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai speaking to children of his home town who had recently lost their fathers in service during the war, 29 Mar 1940

Scientists of the S-1 project (Manhattan Committee) sharing a lighter moment as they discuss the feasibility of the 184-inch cyclotron at Berkeley, California, United States, 29 Mar 1940.	Gladiator fighter of Flying Regiment 19 'Swedish Voluntary Air Force' of the Finnish Air Force, Kauhava, Finland, 30 Mar 1940	Wang Jingwei and Chinese and Japanese civilian officials at the ceremony establishing a Japanese government in Nanjing, China, 30 Mar 1940	Wang Jingwei and military officers at the ceremony establishing a Japanese government in Nanjing, China, 30 Mar 1940

Japanese bringing Wang Jingwei's mother to Nanjing, China as a virtual prisoner to better control Wang Jingwei and his puppet government, Apr 1940	Norwegian He 115N aircraft F.60 at rest, circa 14 Jul 1939 to 9 Apr 1940	Portrait of a Nikolaus Falkenhorst, Apr 1940	Straight down aerial view of the piers and drydocks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States full of battleships and one carrier, USS Enterprise, 1940.