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"The over powering effects of well placed air bombs on the station in the French City of Everex," center of a German air raid. The car house was destr...

"The overpowering effects of well placed air bombs" on the station in the French City of Evreux on July 10, 1940. Both cars and track were severely da...

Alf Landon casts Kansas vote at GOP committee during the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., June 27, 1940. (AP Photo)

George Wharton Pepper, former senator from Pennsylvania, and Alf M. Landon, both of the GOP Resolutions Committee, confer on platform, June 26, 1940....

Alfred M. Landon, left, chairman of the foreign affairs subcommittee of the Republican national committee, is addressing the members in Philadelphia,...

Warships of the Mediterranean Fleet bombarded Fort Cupuzzo at Bardia, Libya, on June 21, 1940. On board one of the battleships was an official photogr...

Photo taken from a German paratrooper taken prisoners and in this country. A German parachutists machine-gun post in Holland, Netherlands, on June 20,...

While Allied armies were evacuating Flanders via Dunkerque, picture of a part of the waterfront at the English Channel port in France on June 15, 1940...

Harvey Gibson, New York world's fair chairman, as he hands Mrs. Herbert woods of Ogden, Utah on May 27, 1940, a specially embossed lease to a model Fh...

Nazi low flying raiders released four high explosive and four incendiary bombs over the little village of Douillet on the Marne. These were directed a...

Lorry loads of British troops ready to be moved up to the fighting lines after their arrival in Norway, on May 1, 1940. A Norwegian officer is seen ce...

One of the nurses checking the name and unit of a wounded soldier who has just arrived at the hospital in Tobruk, Libya, on March 23, 1940. (AP Photo)

The care of a soldier's teeth necessitates the maintenance of a number of dental clinics with the B.E.F. where all kinds of dental operations are carr...

The Cunard-white star liner, Queen Elizabeth on her maiden voyage to New York from an escorting aircraft of the Royal Air Force Coastal Command, on Ma...

The activities of this station include, leaflet dropping, the security patrol over the Frisian Island, and long-distance reconnaissance at night. A Wh...

A flight of Fairey Battle bombers on reconnaissance near the Allied lines in France, on Feb. 28, 1940. (AP Photo)

Brigadier H.D.G. Crerar, commanding officer, Canadian military headquarters in London; Brigadier G.R. Pearkes - in forage cap - of the 1st Canadian di...

Chaotic shambles in a main street in Sivas, Anatolia, Turkey, after the terrible earthquake spasms on Jan. 9, 1940. Thousands of tons of concrete fell...

A Turkish woman holds her baby in a shelter she made from wreckage of the powerful earthquake, Jan. 8, 1940, in Turkey. (AP Photo)

This is a devastated street in Sivas, Turkey, shown Jan. 1940, after the earthquake of Dec. 27, 1939 rocked the region. At left is the headquarters o...

Turkish soldiers remove the bodies of earthquake victims, Jan. 1940. (AP Photo)

Turkish soldiers remove the bodies of earthquake victims, Jan. 1940. (AP Photo)

Blackout in London that doesn't look like a blackout giving the film, z of an hours exposure torches carried by pedestrians smoke wiggly lines and hea...

Blackout in London that doesn't look like a blackout giving the film, z of an hours exposure torches carried by pedestrians smoke wiggly lines and hea...

Britain's King George VI about to descend into an anti-aircraft gun pit during his visit to the Royal Air Force in France, on Dec. 10, 1939. (AP Photo...

Officers and men of the Royal Air Force being presented to King George VI during the king's visit to the R.A.F. in France, on Dec. 10, 1939. (AP Photo...

Britain's King George VI leaving one of the billets during his tour of inspection of the Royal Air Force in France, on Dec. 10, 1939. (AP Photo)

These British Tommies are marching through an unnamed French village on their way up to the western front on Nov. 13, 1939. Rain capes cover their pac...

A contingent of British soldiers arrived in Paris, France on Sunday, Nov. 12, 1939, and paraded along the Boulevards immediately after their arrival....

A contingent of British troops arrived in Paris, France on Sunday, Nov. 12, 1939 and paraded along the Grands Boulevards from the Place de la Republiq...

Queen Elizabeth at her desk in Buckingham Palace in London on Nov. 11, 1939, from which she broadcast her speech to the world, and particularly to the...

Palestine Jews mobilize for national service these are seen reporting at a recruiting office in the Jewish city of Tel Aviv, Israel on Nov. 2, 1939. (...

Members of the Hitler Youth, between 16 and 18 years old, undergo a pre-military training in view of their forthcoming services in the German army. Th...

A British cyclists' patrol at work reconnoitering "somewhere in France" on Oct. 11, 1939. (AP Photo)

After its victorius fights in Poland, motorized units of the SS bodyguards arrived at Praha, Czech Republic on Oct. 4, 1939. They will occupy Garrison...

The splendor of the New York's World Fair in 1939 was evidenced, showing the entrance to the Court of Peace and the Lagoon of Nations where a nightly...

The Duke of Windsor, Prince Edward, and the Duchess, the former Wallis Simpson, are back in England and are staying at the house in Ashdown Forest of...

A view of Piccadilly Circus, brilliantly illuminated, at 11.30 on August 18, 1939 before the great black-out began. (AP Photo)

A view of Piccadilly Circus, brilliantly illuminated, at 11.30 on August 18, 1939 before the great black-out began. (AP Photo)

A view of Piccadilly Circus, at 12:32 A.M. two minutes after the great black-out began on August 18, 1939. The lights seen comes from the side-lamps...

A general view of Westminster Bridge and the houses of Parliament, shrouded in darkness, after the great black-out began on August 18, 1939. (AP Photo...

A view of Piccadilly Circus, at 12:32 A.M. two minutes after the great black-out began on August 18, 1939. The lights seen comes from the side-lamps...

A general view of Westminster Bridge and the houses of Parliament, shrouded in darkness, after the great black-out began on August 18, 1939. (AP Photo...

The same viewpoint of Ludgate Circus, part of Fleet Street, and Ludgate hill, seen behind the railway bridge, after the blackout had started on August...

The same viewpoint of Ludgate Circus, part of Fleet Street, and Ludgate hill, seen behind the railway bridge, after the blackout had started on August...

A view taken from the side of one of the many lagoons at the New York world's fair on July 7, 1939. Light, brings out some of the wondrous beauty as e...

Swimmers in Billy Roses "Aquacade" at the Marine Amphitheatre at the New York World' fair on June 10, 1939. (AP Photo)

Queen Elizabeth and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as they left Washington's Union Station on June 8, 1939 in the car that bore them down Pennsylvania Avenue...

This is the Czecho-Slovak pavilion at the New York World's Fair as it was dedicated on May 31, 1939. The ancient prophecy at the top of the building i...

This is the entrance to Florida's building at the New York World's fair on May 30, 1939 and the visitors are listening to a statue of Ponce de Leon, e...