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Enemy aliens, who were arrested in a big police round-up, leave London, England, May 17, 1940, under a heavy military escort for internment camps. (AP...

Two small children, refugees from the Nazi terror in Netherlands, seated on their luggage at a railway station in London, England, May 17, 1940, after...

British, French and Dutch refugees arrive from Holland at a dock in the Port of London, England, on May 13, 1940. They have fled from the Nazi invasio...

British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal avoids bombs, dropped by German aircraft, in the North Sea, as she escorts home to England a convoy of ships ca...

Ancient ceremony of reading the King's Proclamation at the Royal Exchange, London, May 9, 1940, when men between the ages of 19 - 36 were called up f...

Girls of the Auxillary Territorial Service practice marching in their gas masks, in London, England, May 6, 1940. (AP Photo)

St. Louis Cardinals Rookie Martin Marion in St Louis, April 28, 1940. (AP Photo)

British liner Queen Mary, in her dull grey 'warpaint', steams down the Hudson River, New York, April 3, 1940, away from her berth where she has sough...

American boxer Joe Louis, left, during his fight against Chilean boxer Arturo Godoy,in New York, on Feb. 17, 1940. The fight caused a sensation as God...

The "Great White Way's" usual crowd centered its interest on the Astor Theater, Dec. 19, 1939 when "Gone with the wind" had its Broadway Premier. Here...

The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, once the pride of the German Navy, is seen as it sinks, following the violent explosion which sent her...

The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, once the pride of the German Navy, is seen as it sinks, following the violent explosion which sent her...

Finnish troops wearing their white tunics over their uniforms as camouflage in the snow covered country near the Mannerheim Line, go forward to reinfo...

People rush around and debris litters a street in Helsinki, southern Finland, after a Soviet bomber raid, on Dec. 9, 1939. Many women and children hav...

An injured passenger, on a stretcher, from the British liner SS Athenia is helped off the Norwegian ship Knute Nelson, at Galway, Ireland, Sept. 4, 19...

An injured passenger from the British liner SS Athenia is helped off the Norwegian ship Knute Nelson, at Galway, Ireland, Sept. 4, 1939. The Athenia w...

Denied entrance to Cuba because they lacked leagal permits, some of 917 German Jewish refugees are shown at the rail of the German Liner St. Louis in...

A young soldier, right, is shown with his mother, his wife and his family as he returns to Madrid, Spain, May 31, 1939. (AP Photo)

Facist soldiers in tanks parade through the streets of Valencia in northeastern Spain, May 16, 1939, during a Franco victory parade. (AP Photo)

Posters encouraging men to enlist in the Territorial Army are displayed on the railway bridge at Ludgate Circus, London, April 13, 1939. Centre back i...

National Service posters are displayed on the hoarding around the famous statue of Eros, in Piccadilly Circus, London, April 13, 1939. (AP Photo)

A truck with General Franco's soldiers and national Spanish army nurses enter Madrid, Spain, March 29, 1939, as the a crowd cheers on the sidewalk. (...

Sir Kingsley Wood, the British Minister for Air, inspects boy entrants, all under 16 years old, undergoing training as radio operators during his tour...

Scene from film version of "Gone with the wind" showing Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O"Hara attending a civil war ball Mar...

Children refugees from Catalunia huddle in a ravine in Perpignan, France, after crossing the border to flee the civil war in Spain, Feb. 9, 1939. (AP...

Cold and hungry Spanish refugees from Barcelona sit huddled in blankets on their arrival at Le Perthus, France, Feb. 1939. (AP Photo)

Bread is distributed to the starving civilians of Barcelona after Generalissimo Franco's insurgent troops entered the city, Jan. 28, 1939. (AP Photo)

Gen. Franco's tanks move into captured Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 28, 1939 during the Spanish Civil War. (AP Photo)

Two brothers fighting on opposite sides of the Spanish Civil War are reunited and embrace as their comrades cheer them on, in Tarragona, Jan. 18, 1939...

Large numbers of unemployed people, carrying posters drawing attention to their for winter relief, lay down in Oxford Street, London, Jan. 17, 1939, s...

Large numbers of unemployed people, carrying posters drawing attention to their for winter relief, lay down in Oxford Street, London, Jan. 17, 1939, s...

A cart filled with the possessions of two refugees is wrecked by a bomb, which killed an old man and two mules leading the cart, Jan. 15, 1939, in Tar...

Bread is distributed to the starving civilians of Barcelona after Generalissimo Franco's insurgent troops entered the city, Jan. 1939. (AP Photo)

Military pilot General Henry

The movie "Gone With the Wind," went into production in Hollywood, the night of December 10, 1938 when Selznick studios set fire to a number of old se...

Dorothy Schiff, Publisher at the New York Post, 1939. (AP Photo)

Exterior of the radiant facade of Radio City Music Hall, in New York City 1939. (AP Photo)

Artistic view of the Radio City Music Hall with the RCA Building towering above it, 1939. (AP Photo)

Generalissimo Franco, center, insurgent leader, and members of the diplomatic corps, attend the second anniversary of the death of Jose Antonio Primo...

Ausschreitungen gegen Juden und j??discheEinrichtungen w???hrend des Novemberpogroms(sogenannte 'Kristallnacht'): junger Mannwill zerbrochene Scheiben...

Spanish insurgent forces, carrying long rifles, make their way in the snows of early winter in Hendaye, France, Nov. 1938, after strategic advances al...

Italian driver Tazio Nuvolari in an Auto Union, during the first lap of the 250 mile International Grand Prix Race at Donington Park, Derby, England,...

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson observes her 48th birthday, Oct. 9, 1938, dressed as a milkmaid as she sings with her congregation in Angelus Temple...

Ball players are seen playing while wearing gas masks, Sept. 3, 1938 in a psychological and physiological experiment by the Tokyo air defense bureau....

A poster in Hong Kong, July 19, 1938, to encourage China to fight in the war against Japan. It shows the Chinese forces, left, rescuing their women a...

U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy, center, is seen with his two sons, Jack, left, and Joseph Jr., in New York, prior to their voyage...

**EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT** A Russian armored car and its driver, a Spanish government insurgent are seen incinerated after a vain attempt at defen...

**EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT** The bodies of mainly women and children line the wall of the cemetery in Granollers, Spain, May 31, 1938, following an...

**EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT** Bodies of victims of the insurgent air raid over Grenollers, Barcelona, are seen May 31, 1938. The air raids resulted...

New York University (NYU) students in the Abe Lincoln Brigade pose during the Spanish Civil War, April 15, 1938. (AP Photo)