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A column of troops with equipment head towards the front lines, somewere in France on Oct. 12, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's head of the Press Censor Department of the Ministry of Information Sir Walter Mockton, at his desk in London Oct. 9, 1939. (AP Photo/Staff/I...

German troops make their triumphal entry into Warsaw, Polland on Oct. 5, 1939. Soldiers line the route to keep back the cheering crowds, only the peop...

President of the Reichstag Hermann Goering raises his Fieldmarshal's baton as he arrives at the Kroll Operas House, Berlin on Oct. 4, 1939, to listen...

Italiy's Foreign Minister Count Gian Ciano, left, talks with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, after he arrives for talks in Berlin, Ger...

Britain's Duke of Windsor, wearing the uniform of a major General, with his wife the Duchess somwhere in France, Oct. 3, 1939. (AP Photo)

British Bren-gun carriers drive through a village somewhere in France on Oct. 2, 1939, on their way to the front line. (AP Photo)

This silver loving cup, symbolic of victory in the annual President's Cup Race on the Potomac, passed from U.S. to Canada when the president gave it t...

President Franklin Roosevelt is shown after his press conference, at Hyde Park, N.Y., on Sept. 23, 1939 at which he declined to answer Alfred M. Lando...

President Franklin Roosevelt (at wheel of automobile) inspects progress of construction work on the library which will house his public papers and pr...

With its long barrel pointed menacingly towards the sky, this anti-aircraft gun stands ready to repel any sky-raiders who might seek to bomb in Berlin...

President Franklin Roosevelt pauses for a word with Kenneth Romney, sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, in the Capitol, Washington on Se...

Appearing personally before Congress in extraordinary session convened in Washington, on Sept. 21, 1939 President Roosevelt asked for repeal of the ar...

German machine gunners like this one in maneuvers before the present war, were on guard in Germany?s Western Frontier, Sept. 8, 1939 prepared to ward...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt left the Capital on Sept. 8, 1939 for a visit to his home at Hyde Park, N.Y. He is shown above with his mother, Mrs....

Even before Europe?s present crisis, German school children were taught how to protect themselves in case of war. Schools held regular classes in defe...

Berlin school children, instructed in the art of conducting themselves in event of war, are shown squatting during physical exercises while wearing ga...

Children in Berlin schools, August 31, 1939, have been instructed in regular schools how to conduct themselves in case of war with its accompanying ai...

Berlin?s school children have been drilled in how to conduct themselves in event of war. Here is an entire school in Berlin, August 31, 1939 before th...

Members of the American Embassy wave farewell to their families at the Gare Montparnasse Station, in Paris, on Aug. 27, 1939. (AP Photo)

This German anti-aircraft battery had a chance for a repeat performance in dead, grim earnestness as Hitler rallied his troops to force partition dema...

German troops like these, seen on a practice march, Sept. 8, 1939 in Aachen before the present war had the job of blocking a French drive on Germany?s...

The German airforce held section manoeuvres in the north-western district of Germany, August 3, 1939. A camouflaged anti-aircraft-gun in a cornfield d...

Young Germans born between 1918 and 1920 are ordered by this poster in Berlin, Germany, July 22, 1939 to report examination and mustering into the Ger...

A railway battery preparing to leave for another position, July 20, 1939. (AP Photo)

Papa Maxie Baer had a time explaining to son Maxie, Jr. June 2, 1939 how he happened to get that black eye in his bout the night before with Lou Nova...

Here is one of the posters appearing in Berlin, May 12, 1939 to illustrate the Hitler Youth movement?s participation in air raid precaution drills. In...

But the aroma of spring flowers is lost upon these marchers. They?re members of the Hitler youth movement, wearing gas masks in an air raid prec., at...

Here?s the finish of the Kentucky Derby, May 6, 1939 at Churchill Downs, Louisville, with Johnstown out in front by six lengths. Challedon was second,...

This head-on view of the Kentucky Derby finish at Louisville, May 6, 1939, was made with a New Associated Press camera equipped with a 60-inch lens fr...

With his famous trainer, ?Sunny Jim? Fitzsimmons, smiling toward camera, Johnstown, winner of the 65th running of the Kentucky Derby, is shown in the...

Britain's King George VI, left, and Queen Elizabeth walk with Canada's Prime Minister, after they had docked in Quebec, Canada, in May 1939. (AP Photo...

This is the new gas proof baby cradle with a baby inside in Germany, April 19, 1939. This cradle is airtight closed so that the gas cannot affect the...

Trees planted in a shelterbelt strip on the farm of Dr. H. Bungardt near Corbell, Okla., grew so rapidly within four years that he had to ask the fore...

Dr. Ernst Neumann, leader of the Memel Germans, left, is shown greeting the German Minister of interior, Dr. W. Frick, (right) as they met on March 22...

Image shows with German and Slovak flags decorated main entrance of the City Theater of Pressburg (Bratislava), during a ceremony celebrating the esta...

Slovak Premier Dr. Josef Tiso, lifts his hat as a SS officer salutes upon his arrival at Tempelhof airport, Berlin, Germany March 13, 1939, following...

Mrs. Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, left, Germany's

Mrs. Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Germany's

Mrs. Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Germany's

Mrs. Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Germany's

Mrs. Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, left, Germany's

This building is the latest trend in Argentina apartment buildings -- modernistic structures of concrete and steel, all glistening white. The larger...

The crack elite shock troops which are trained in ever possible way at their barracks at Berlin-Lichterfelde also receive thorough instructions in han...

The crack elite shock troops which are trained in every possible way at their barracks at Berlin-Lichterfelde also receive thorough instruction in han...

Poland's Prime Minister in exile General Wladyslaw Sikorski, leaves his hotel in London, England, in 1939, to visit the King at Buckingham Palace. (AP...

Carnegie Hall, New York?s Stronghold of classical music, was the setting on Dec. 23, 1938 for these trumpeters of jazz in Count Basie?s African Ameri...

Frankie Brimsek of the Boston Bruins poses on Dec. 20, 1938 in Boston to show how he has guarded his team???s goal so well that the opposition hasn???...

Welshman Tommy Farr, left, and American Heavyweight World Champion Lou Nova, pose for photographers before their weigh-in, in New York on Dec. 15, 193...

A happy group of German Jewish refugees head for the seashore at the Dovercourt Bay holiday camp, near Harwich on Dec. 4, 1938. The children are stay...