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| Sims off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, 9 May 1940, photo 3 of 3 | Searaven during trials, off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, 13 May 1940, photo 1 of 3 | Searaven during trials, off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, 13 May 1940, photo 2 of 3 | Searaven during trials, off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, 13 May 1940, photo 3 of 3 |
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| Searaven making full speed while running trials off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, 13 May 1940, photo 1 of 3 | Searaven making full speed while running trials off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, 13 May 1940, photo 2 of 3 | Searaven making full speed while running trials off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, 13 May 1940, photo 3 of 3 | A wounded man and a dead girl in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 1940 |
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| British trawler rescuing Allied troops escaping from Dunkirk, France, May 1940 | British troops in a ship off of Dunkirk, France, late May 1940 | US Senator Morris Sheppard, Major General George Lynch, and Senator A. B. Chandler comparing M1941 Johnson rifles and the M1 Garand rifles, Washington, DC, United States, 29 May 1940 | Aerial view of the destruction at Rotterdam, circa late May 1940 |
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| Abandoned Char B1 tank, France, 1940; note German Panzer II in background | An aircraft spotter atop a London building, St. Paul's Cathedral in background, early 1940s | Battleship North Carolina at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, early Jun 1940 | British prisoners at Dunkirk, France, Jun 1940 |
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| Mussolini and Hitler, Munich, Jun 1940 | TBD-1 Devastator aircraft aboard Yorktown at Naval Air Station, San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1940; note 3 of them were painted in experimental color scheme used during Fleet Problem XXI | Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator dive bomber of Scouting Squadron VS-72 on the deck-edge elevator of USS Wasp (Wasp-class) at Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, Jun 1940. | Yorktown (Yorktown-class) at Naval Air Station, San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1940; note presence of TBD-1, BT-1, SBC-3, F3F-2, F3F-3, SB2U, JRF, J2F and JRS-1 aircraft models. Photo 1 of 2. |
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