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Colonel Chamberlain (left) inspects the Chislehurst 54th Battalion of the Kent Home Guard.
The ruins of Coventry Cathedral,Warwickshire, after the Medieval building was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombs during the 'Baedecker raids' of the Second World War. 1,000 civilians were killed.
A Spitfire testing its guns at Biggin Hill during the Battle of Britain.
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CP2STO47723 | 1940 
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PREMIUM -- WHS#5806: A display of various medical containers including glass bottles, boxes, and pill containers, all emblazoned with the logo for the Professional Pharmacy in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1940. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM -- WHS#5578: A pharmacist checks the stocks of biologicals in a large, modern "walk-in" refrigerator. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1940. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM -- WHS#5579: James Robinson and E. Newton of the Professional Pharmacy prepare to load a Linde oxygen tank for home delivery. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1940. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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CP2STO50255 | 1940-04 
CANADIAN SOLDIERS WHO WILL PROVIDE PALACE GUARD PICK UP A FEW HINTS TODAY SOLDIERS OF THE FRENCH CANADIAN REGIMENT AND THE TORONTO SCOTTISH ARE TO PROVIDE THE GUARD AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE FROM APRIL 17TH TO APRIL 24TH AND TODAY APRIL 5, MEN OF THESE TWO REGIMENTS WATCHED THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD CEREMONY TO ASSIST THEM IN LEARNING THE DUTIES WHICH THEY WILL HAVE TO CARRY OUT THE WEEK AFTER NEXT. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: THE CANADIAN SOLDIERS MARCHING INTO BUCKINGHAM PALACE THIS MORNING, APRIL 5, 1940 TO SEE THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD CEREMONY. THE BRITISH GUARDSMEN AT PRESENT PROVIDING THE GUARD ARE SEEN IN BACKGROUND RIGHT. WOR 224200 5440S O.
NEW DALAI LAMA OF TIBET FIRST PICTURE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: THE FIRST PICTURE TO ARRIVE IN THIS COUNTRY OF THE NEW DALAI LAMA OF TIBET, LING-ERH LA-MU-TAN-CHU, ENTHRONED AS THE SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL RULER OF THE COUNTRY. BORN IN KOKONOR, HE WAS TAKEN TO THE FAMOUS "HIDDEN" CITY OF LHASSA IN A GOLDEN PALANQUIN. THE NEW DALAI LAMA IS SIX YEARS OLD AND WILL ASSUME FULL CONTROL FOR LIFE WHEN HE REACHES THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN. 4/3/1940 HAI 223130 4340S
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt at the wheel of his automobile, as he drove CanadaÕs Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King to the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia on April 23, 1940, where the Dominion official is to be his guest. The reunion between the two men, whose friendship dates back for 30 years, had no political significance, according to a statement authorized by the President. (AP Photo/George Skadding)
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CP1STO579874 | 1940-04 
Halifax, Nova Scotia; October 1940--Ceremonies -- Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, inspecting Ship's Company of H.M.C.S. "Assiniboine". (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of Canada) PA-104239
Quebec City, Quebec; July 1940--Second World War --Prisoners of war. Arrival of German prisoners at the train station. (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of Canada) PA-166252
1940--Royal Visits --Princess Juliana of the Netherlands aboard a train after arriving at an east coast port. (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of Canada) C-007488
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CP1STO578006 | 1940 
Colonel Chamberlain (left) inspects the Chislehurst 54th Battalion of the Kent Home Guard.
The ruins of Coventry Cathedral,Warwickshire, after the Medieval building was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombs during the 'Baedecker raids' of the Second World War. 1,000 civilians were killed.
A Spitfire testing its guns at Biggin Hill during the Battle of Britain.
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CP2STO47723 | 1940 
Madonna attends the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Monday, March 10, 2008 in New York.
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CP2STO47722 | 1940 
St Marks Cathedral Sheffield after German air raid WW2. Statue of Last Supper is all that remains undamaged 1940. Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPWA452973)
PREMIUM -- WHS#14313: Four Dane County Highway Police Ford squad cars with one officer standing next to the cars. Madison, Wisconsin, 1940. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM -- WHS#14276: Black Eagle Service Station, 1039 East Washington Avenue, featuring Goodrich tires and batteries and Pennzoil. Madison, Wisconsin, 1940. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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CP2STO47725 | 1940 
GREAT BRITING MISC Some Londoners, shopping for meat, buy their provisions from this butcher store, equipped to replace any branch of J. Richards, Ltd., put out of service by bombing. Paper bags like the ones carried by woman at right are rare. Because of the paper shortage many purchases are carried home without wrapping.12/21/1940
DOVER PASSED BY THE CENSOR NO: 90555 LORD LOTHIAN VISITS COAST DEFENCES AND DOVER LORD LOTHIAN, BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, WHO IS TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY AFFORDED BY HIS STAY IN BRITAIN TO MAKE HIMSELF FAMILIAR WITH THE MANNER IN WHICH THE BRITISH PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING BACK AGAINST INTENSIFIED ENEMY ATTACKS, INSPECTED COASTAL DEFENCES AND VISITED DOVER. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: LORD LOTHIAN, RIGHT CENTRE, PASSING WRECKED BUILDINGS IN DOVER. WHITH HIM, LEFT, IS CAPTAIN LLEWELLYN-MORGAN, OF THE ROYAL NAVY. 11/7/1940 FL/AB 231556 71140S ALL EX D.P.W.L.
4277 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK CAUTION: USE CREDIT EXILES IN ROME FORMER KING AMANULLAH OF AFGHANISTAN (RIGHT) AND HIS WIFE, FORMER QUEEN SOR- AYA, ATTEND OPENING CEREMONIES AT THE SCHOOL IN ROME WHERE TWO OF THEIR CHILDREN ARE ENROLLED. HE HAS BEEN LIVING IN EXILE IN ROME WITH HIS WIFE SINCE HIS ABDICATION AFTER HABIBULLAH'S REBELLION IN 1929. HE IS THE FATHER OF NINE CHILDREN. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO AW 10-29-40 ROME 107PES WA BAIRES LON MEX 106
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CP1STO578007 | 1940 
DUNKIRK ALLIED TROOPS PATIENT VIGIL AMONG THE DUNES OF DUNKIRK ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS FROM THE ALLIED ARMIES OF THE NORTH WAITING PATIENTLY AMONG THE DUNES OF DUNKIRK BEACH FOR THE RESCUE SHIPS TO TAKE THEM TO SAFETY IN ENGLAND. THEY WAITED THEIR TURN WITH PERFECT COURAGE AND DISCIPLINE IN SPITE OF CONSTANT ENEMY BOMBARDMENT. 6/4/1940 FL/AB 226489 4640L D
General Wilhelm Keitel is shown in top radiophoto (4) reading Germany's terms of complete capitulation by France, which were accepted by the Government of Marshal Petain, but disavowed by the French Empire and by a French national committee in London. Britain no longer recognizes the Bordeaux Administration. Also seen in the historic railway car are: (1) Admiral Erich Raeder, (2) Field Marshal- Hermann Goering, (3) Hitler, (5) General Walther von Brauchitsch;(6) Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy (7) General Charles Huntziger, head of the French delegation; (8) Admiral Maurice Le Duc; (9) Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; (10) F. W. Brueckner, Hitler's adjutant; (11) Translator Paul Schmidt. General Jean Marie Bergeret and Leon Noel are seated out. of view behind Huntziger. 6/24/1940
DUNKIRK B.E.F. WADE OUT TO BOATS AT DUNKIRK: PERFECT DISCIPLINE UNDER FILE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: A HUMAN CHAIN OF B.E.F. MEN WADE CUT FROM DUNKIRK BEACH TO ONE OF THE RESCUE BOATS; UNDER CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT AND MACHINE GUN FIRE, THEY CAME OUT EACH IN HIS TURN WITH PERFECT DISCIPLINE AND MOST OF THEM STILL CARRIED THEIR EQUIPMENT. 6/7/1940 7640L NY.T.A.MH.
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CP1STO579873 | 1940-06 
Members of the L.D.V. (Local Defence Volunteers) inspect a rifle. Inspired by Spanish Civil War veteran Captain Tom Wintringham and founded by General Walter Kirke in February 1940, The LDV were to be renamed in July, 1940, as The Home Guard.
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CP2STO50252 | 1940-06 
Canada's Jamie Russell (right) goes up for a basket against Cuba's Ruperto Herrera during action at the Montreal Summer Olympics in this July 19, 2000 photo. Russell, a native of Niagara Falls, Ont. and a member of the Canadian national team from 1972 to 1979, will be inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame along with three others, it was announced Monday, Aug.28, 2000. (CP PHOTO/Files)
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CP2STO47361 | 1940-06 
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