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Detachments of home guards proceeding along the cliff edge of take up their positions, April 5, 1941. (AP Photo)

Girls wearing special gas-masks for bronchial subjects passing shop girls wearing ordinary gas-masks during the big gas test at Esher, Surrey on April...

Girls wearing special gas-masks for bronchial subjects passing shop girls wearing ordinary gas-masks during the big gas test at Esher, Surrey on April...

The Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, and Mr. Anthony Biddle, American ambassador to Poland reviewed a Polish fighter squadron, in the south of...

The Polish President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, and Mr. Anthony Biddle, American ambassador to Poland reviewed a Polish fighter squadron, in the south of...

Girl busy painting a bridge on the southern railway, which is now training girls to do a great deal of the work formerly done by men, March 31, 1941....

A scene from Southend, London, during gas exercise on March 30, 1941. (AP Photo)

A scene from Southend, London, during gas exercise on March 30, 1941. (AP Photo)

A tear-gas exercise was held in Southend during shopping hours on March 29, 1941. Rattles warned the people to put on their masks, and those caught wi...

Tests of the new table-type indoor air raid shelter a two storey house was brought down by explosives to reproduce the collapse of such a house caused...

Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister visited a unit of the Royal Air Force at a coastal command station in the South of England. He spent sev...

A gas-masked nurse carries one young patient and leads another, during a gas attack drill in Charing Cross hospital in London, March 16, 1941. The chi...

Boys of Hitler Youth are shown at the Adolf Hitler School. One of the youngsters in service controlling his comrades' room - the beds aren't in order...

The Hitler Youth of the Odensburg Sonthofen are taught art appreciation, Feb. 24, 1941, often working on a single subject for longer than half a year....

Hitler Youth boys sing in a choir during music lesson at Ordnungsburg Sonthofen, Feb. 24, 1941. (AP Photo)

A large library gives a boy member of Hitler Youth ample opportunity to study world political questions and prepare themselves for the future, Feb. 24...

For the boys of Hitler Youth, part of instructions in this class for political newspaper science is the collecting of articles pertaining to the devel...

Hitler Youth stand in a classroom during instruction on political newspaper science at "Ordnungsburg Sonthofen" in Germany, Feb. 24, 1941. Fourth year...

Besides being instructed in mental and physical ability and an understanding for art and science, the boys of Hitler Youth are taught a craft. This yo...

The steel framework of the New York World's fair Trylon and Perisphere looked like this when it was nearly half demolished on Feb. 23, 1941. The metal...

Andreas Hofmann, right, said to be Germany's oldest storm trooper, celebrates his 95th birthday and was given a portrait and autograph of Adolf Hitler...

The ministry of Home Security announces that a new anti-gas respirator will shortly be issued to persons who are unable to wear any ordinary type of g...

Briatin's King George VI, left, shakes the hand of a Squadron-Leader Gordon McGregor, of the Royal Canadian Air Force after presenting him with the Di...

An Amish farmer and youngster (unidentified) visit Penna Farm show at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Jan. 24, 1941. (AP Photo)

Workmen dismantling Belgian building in New York on Jan. 23, 1941. (AP Photo)

View of the Belgian pavilion being dismantled in New York on Jan. 23, 1941. (AP Photo)

Men dismantling the slades from sides of the tower in New York on Jan. 23, 1941. (AP Photo)

Workmen dismantling Belgian building in New York on Jan. 23, 1941. (AP Photo)

Workmen lowering the slades from the tower after they take them off in New York on Jan. 23, 1941. (AP Photo)

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air and cities fell and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven on Jan. 15, 1941. (AP Photo)

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air and cities fell and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven on Jan. 15, 1941. (AP Photo)

The Perisphere and Trylon with the framework beginning to show as the out coverings were being removed at the New York World' fair on Jan. 3, 1941. (A...

Masses of Italian prisoners being marched back, in some cases with only one soldier guard, after being captured in the British advance in the western...

Dismantling of the Belgian pavilion at the New York world's fair is scheduled to get under way soon. Here is the pavilion on the scene where "the worl...

When buying food in Great Britain, the purchaser must present a ration card for such commodities as sugar, butter, bacon and ham. Three types of cards...

British Tommies stand on guard and pace off their posts on a south English coast, Dec. 10, 1940 promenade as England maintains a watch against the dan...

Several thousand polish soldiers, such as these, have gone from Syria to Palestine to fight on with the British on Nov. 29, 1940. They already have ad...

For two years thousands of persons flocked to New York City to look at the "World of Tomorrow," an ultramodern fair, exhibiting the products of man's...

A half-million happy-go-lucky New Yorkers jam Times Square to watch as election returns are flashed in New York, Nov. 5, 1940. This was the scene arou...

Supporters at Wendell Willkie headquarters wait for the returns, Nov. 5, 1940. (AP Photo)

Some of the thousands of persons who packed Times Square in New York, Nov. 5, 1940, in the excitement of the presidential election. Observers believed...

The British home guards, working out for the main event promised them by Hitler, simulate war conditions by destroying improvised Panzer equipment, Se...

A huge scrap heap where German planes, brought down over Great Britain, are dumped, August 27, 1940. The large number of Nazi planes downed during rai...

British workers in a salvage yard, August 26, 1940 breaking up the remains of wrecked German raiders which were shot down over England. This view was...

There's quite a trick about shooting a fish with a bow and arrow, a sport now popular off Santa Catalina, California on July 31, 1940. A beginner shou...

This was what was left of Fort de Brimont Reims, France on July 26, 1940, after the Nazi blitzkrieging army cleared with bombs and shells. (AP Photo)

Show bridge across river Allier at Chazeuil on road from Vichy to Paris, which looks like a destroyed gigantic scenic railway after having been blown...

Such destruction as this, showing the battle-town French City of Gien at the Loire River on July 21, 1940. (AP Photo)

Its ruins appear from the tower of the unharmed cathedral in Beauvais, France on July 12, 1940. (AP Photo)

Its ruins appear from the tower of the unharmed cathedral in Beauvais, France on July 12, 1940. (AP Photo)