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World War 2: Before the War
World War 2: Invasion of Poland / Winter War

World War 2: Axis Invasions / Fall of France


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A German armored tank crosses the Aisne River in France, on June 21, 1940, one day before the surrender of France.



Waves of German paratroopers land on snow-covered rock ledges in the Norwegian port and city of Narvik, during the German invasion of the Scandinavian country.



The remains of a naval battle in Narvik, Norway in 1940. Several battles between German and Norwegian forces took place in the Ofotfjord in the spring of 1940.



A group of German Gebirgsjägers (mountain troops) in action in Narvik, Norway, in 1940.



German soldiers move through a burning Norwegian village, in April 1940, during the German invasion.



Members of a British Royal Air Force bombing squadron hold thumbs up on April 22, 1940, as they return to home base from an attack on German warships off Bergen, Norway.



An aircraft spotter on the roof of a building in London, England, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background.



German bombs miss their targets and explode in the sea during an air raid on Dover, England, in July 1940.



Members of the Black Watch, one of the famed Scottish regiments, undergo rough training in South Coast sector of England, in 1940. The men were training to be combat parachutists.



The Royal Irish Fusiliers of the British expeditionary forces come to the aid of French farmers whose horses have been commandeered by the French Army. A tank is hitched to a plow to help with the spring tilling of the soil on March 27, 1940.

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Belgian women tearfully have goodbye to husbands and sons leaving for the front line as the threat of invasion hung heavily over their homeland, on May 11, 1940.

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A formation of German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers are flying over an unknown location, in this May 29, 1940 photo.

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A German soldier operates his antiaircraft gun at an unknown location, in support of the German troops as they march into Danish territory, on April 9, 1940.

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Reconnaissance squads head the German advance into Luxembourg, on May 10, 1940.

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German parachute troops descending on Fort Eben Emael in Belgium, on May 30, 1940, part of a larger surprise attack.

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French soldiers load a piece of artillery in a wood somewhere in the Western Front on May 29, 1940. The shell will be fired into the Nazi-occupied sector of the soldiers' homeland.