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An Italian signpost at Salum points the route to fort Capuzzo, Bardia and Tobruk all captured by the British in their counterattack westward into Liby...

British Bren gun carriers pass by shell shattered buildings in Fort Capuzzo, Libya, Jan. 25, 1941, formerly an Italian position in Eastern Libya. (AP...

A crowd estimated at 75,000 people jams Capitol Plaza in Washington, Jan. 20, 1941, for the third term inauguration of President Franklin Delano Roose...

A pair of Australians inspect closely a tank British say is one of 40 captured by troops who forced Italians out of Nibeiwa near Sidi Barrani in North...

This is an underground army cook house used by Australian Troops during the advance on Bardia, Jan. 8, 1942. In other huge underground chambers discov...

Robert Lee Suffridge, right, All-American guard on the University of Tennessee football team carried off the Washington touchdown club's Knute Rockne...

In a Ditch near Klin, London sources say, these are frozen German corpses on the Russian front. Jan. 6, 1941 photo. (AP Photo)

An Australian

British Infantrymen grin from their positions in a shallow trench before Bardia, the Libyan Port which fell, Jan. 5, 1941 after a 20- day siege. (AP P...

Troops of the Brigade crossing the River Atbara on a pontoon conveying the M.T. while the men wade across on Jan. 4, 1941. The river is infested with...

Ground crew checking up before a Glen Martin takes off on a raid, Jan. 4, 1941. (AP Photo)

This is a scene of O'Connell Street, Jan. 3, 1941, Dublin, Ireland. (AP Photo)

Some of the South African troops at a parade in Kenya, Jan. 2, 1941 at East Africa, when the Governor of Kenya, delivered a message from the king on t...

American Special Envoy, Colonel William J. Donovan, who has arrived in Britain on a secret mission, talks to a reporter in his hotel in London, Engla...

In action is a member of the camel patrol of the Sudan defence force attached to an Indian infantry brigade holding an advanced post on the Eritrean f...

War

As protection against sand storms an Australian soldier in Egypt wears a muffler and eye-shield for protection against the sand-storms that sweep the...

An Australian soldier in Egypt, with a towel over his head to keep off the scorching sun and driven, surveys his camp, Dec. 13, 1940 in Egypt. Althoug...

Italian sources describe these pictures as scenes from Italy's campaign in Africa atop an Italian column in Egypt. Bottom?a motor column rolls along a...

British military truck throws clouds of dust as it travels over a desert road on the Libyan Egyptian war front, December 1941. (AP Photo)

Armorers

The battle for Amba Alagi, the last Italian stronghold in Eritrea, 1941. (AP Photo)

1941 portrait of U.S. American actress Rita Hayworth, wearing a bra. (AP Photo)

Soviet Air Force fighters in flight, July, 1941. (AP Photo)

In the big air battle at Mersa Matruhin the western desert, October 31st eight enemy aircraft were shot down in flames and four others seriously damag...

Tennessee University's Robert Suffridge, Nov. 28, 1940. (AP Photo)

A tall Australian, member of a Squadron of the Royal Australian air force which arrived at a port in the Middle East, Oct. 18, 1940, has a cool drink...

Shelling of Dakar, Oct. 9, 1940 during World War II. (AP Photo)

In shorts and thin shirts, the members of a bomber squadron in the desert in Egypt set out to their aircraft, September 25, 1940. A contrast to their...

A religious pacifist, Rev. Francis Hall, extreme right, sits before a test tribunal for conscientious objectors in New York, Sept. 23, 1940. From lef...

Advance of Italian troops beyond the Egyptian frontier on Sept. 21, 1940 in Egypt. (AP Photo)

Five British Wellesley bombers fly away from the Asmara Airdrome in North Africa, English sources say, after laying their bomb Cargoes The Airdrome, a...

University of Missouri's Paul Christman, left, has convinced his coach Don Faurot, right, that he is completely recovered fromillness and injury, Sept...

A British battery is shown in action in the desert of Libya, August 19, 1940, according to British caption, which said that their troops had penetrate...

Nelson Column, Aug. 7, 1940, Dublin, Ireland. (AP Photo)

Caproni high-wing tri-motor bombers on fire after a Royal Air Force attack on an airdrome here July 11, 1940 in Italian East Africa in Ethiopia. (AP P...

Prof. Marshall W. Jennison of Massachusetts institute of technology, took this high-speed photograph of the spasm which sprays droplets from mouth and...

The American Civil Liberties Union Announced in New York on April 1, 1940, would seek the following day to reopen the legal proceedings by which Bertr...

Marvin Huffman, senior guard and captain of the University of Indiana basketball team, second from left, looks bashfully at the trophy he received on...

Neville Chamberlain shown March 27, 1940. (AP Photo)

This photo shows a dental office from the 1880s, taken, March, 8, 1940. It doesn't look like much when compared with today's dental offices, but to fo...

Crowded on the deck are troops of the second Australian Imperial force and the New Zealand expeditionary forces after their arrival in Suez, Feb. 29,...

Mahatma Gandhi is shown, Feb. 17, 1940, during a visit with poet Rabindranath Tagore. (AP Photo)

Shown lined up for inspection at Cairo, Egypt, February 8, 1940 is one of the British territorial regiments, part of the assembled British, Egyptian a...

This is a Social Security card and account, seen 1940. (AP Photo)

Challenger Pedro Montanez, left, takes a seat on the ropes after being hit by Champ Henry Armstrong during their fight, January 24, 1940, New York. Th...

New York bankers at a monopoly hearing Harold Stanley (left), President of Morgan, Stanley and company, Inc., of New York, told the monopoly committee...

Coach Dutch Meyer of Texas Christian University, right, continued an old custom of sticking his tongue out at the TCU-Rice Game in Fort Worth, Tex., N...

Head Coach Leo

Photo show Al Jolson in Oct. 23, 1939, as E.P. Christy. (AP Photo)