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Directive No. 21 'Fall Barbarossa', 18 Dec 1940, page 9 of 9; note Hitler's signature	Matilda tank of the UK 7th Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa, 19 Dec 1940	President Kyösti Kallio of Finland and Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim at Helsinki railway station, Finland, 19 Dec 1940; Risto Ryti, Lieutenant General Erik Heindrichs, and Colonel Aladár Paasonen in background	A freshly-constructed wall across a street in the city center defines the boundary of the Warsaw Ghetto for the city’s approximately 500,000 Jews, 20 Dec 1940.

Broadside view of USS Wasp (Wasp-class) at anchor on 27 Dec 1940, probably in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Note F3F fighters and SB2U Vindicator aircraft on the flight deck.	Carrier Zuiho at Yokosuka, Japan, 28 Dec 1940	25-Pounder Mark II gun of Sergeant Pearse of 1st Battery, A Troop, Australian 2/1st Field Artillery Regiment bombarding Bardia, Libya, 29 Dec 1940	St. Paul's Cathedral during the great raid on London, England, United Kingdom, 29 Dec 1940

Battleship Iowa under construction, New York Navy Yard, New York, United States, 30 Dec 1940	HMS Eagle at Alexandria, Egypt, 31 Dec 1940	XSB2C prototype aircraft in flight, United States, late 1940	Camouflaged Sturmpanzer, Panzer V Panther, and two Sturmgeschütz III vehicles, Italy, Apr-May 1944

Major General Roy Geiger, Colonel Merwin Silverthorn, and Brigadier General Pedro del Valle studying Guam terrain aboard USS Appalachian, mid-1944	Map showing military installations and troops dispositions on Iwo Jima, Japan, 14 Sep 1944