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Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, chatting to Lord John Gort, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, during the premie...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, centre, arrives at an airfield, somewhere in France, on Dec. 16, 1939, where he is greeted by Captain th...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, centre, arrives at an airfield, somewhere in France, on Dec. 16, 1939, where he is greeted by Captain th...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, with Captain the Earl of Munster, inspecting the French guard of honour on his arrival by air at an airf...

Britain's King George VI, left, in very happy mood, with French President Albert Lebrun,French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, and Lord John Gort, th...

Take away the barbed wire in foreground and few would suspect this "peaceful" scene as being the embattled border between France and Germany (backgrou...

Britain's King George VI leaving a trench in the forward area, during his visit to the British army, somewhere in France, on Dec. 7, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's King George VI is piped onto the gangway as he prepares to leave the Royal Navy ship that transported him across the Channel to France to vi...

Britain's King George VI is piped onto the gangway as he prepares to leave the Royal Navy ship that transported him across the Channel to France to vi...

Britain's King George VI is piped onto the gangway as he prepares to leave the Royal Navy ship that transported him across the Channel to France to vi...

Lieutenant General Henry R. Pownall, the British Chief of the General Staff, seated, with his A.D.C., Captain E. U. Oyler, somewhere in France with th...

During his visit to the front, Britain's War Minister Hore Belisha visited a French section of the line, somewhere in France, on Nov. 23, 1939. The Wa...

The famous pushcart markets of Manhattan's lower East side-for generations the portable shopping centers for the teeming tenement district-have been d...

The crew of the French liner De Grasse has target practice at sea with one of the 75-millimetre guns with which she's manned for her transatlantic voy...

An interval for lunch during the tour of the British front by Britain's Minister For War Leslie Hore Belisha, on Nov. 20, 1939. From left to right are...

Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, front left, at the British general headquarters, in France, on Nov. 10, 1939. Commander-in-C...

Air minister Sir Kingsley Wood has just completed a tour of the Royal Air force bases in France. He is the first British defense minister to visit the...

A unit of Bren gun carriers stretching down a typically long, straight French road on its way to the advanced lines of the British front in France on...

It has been announced that 30,000 British troops are now holding the line in the western front alongside their French comrades. And still the old hors...

Under the presidency of General Gouraud, war hero and former military Governor of Paris, the Franco-American Lafayette Committee to which belong a num...

Under the leadership of Mrs. Alan Arragon a body of volunteer nurses, mostly French and American society women, is preparing to render service at the...

A French observer trains his field glasses down the 300 yard straightaway of the Iron bridge in France on Oct. 11, 1939 which connects Strasbourg, on...

The famous iron bridge at Strasbourg, with Kehl three hundred yards away on the German side on Oct. 6, 1939. French and German troops watch each other...

With dawn just breaking, this aerial picture was made of British bombers taking part in bombing exercises over eastern France on Oct. 2, 1939. They ar...

With newspapermen pressing close to him Alf M. Landon, republican presidential nominee in 1936, in Washington to a attend President Roosevelt's neutra...

A train "mistress" with her Gas Mask, supervising the entrance of passengers in Paris subway on Sept. 15, 1939. (AP Photo)

Women ticket puncher carrying her Gas Mask, at work at the gate near which is installed fire fighting apparatus in Paris Subway on Sept. 15, 1939. (AP...

Responding to the appeal which has been mate to obtain blood for transfusions in hospitals and medical centers, hundreds of call at the special servic...

These barbed-wire entanglements were erected along the border between France and Saarland late in 1934 in preparation for the plebiscite on January 13...

All the lights and shining parts of cars in Paris have now been covered with blue in accordance with regulation for night travel during the war. A lux...

Painted Gray, in order of camouflage it from the "enemy," the liner Franconia slipped out of its pier on Sept. 2, 1939, for a voyage back to its home...

Motorist fills up wine bottles with petrol just in case the petrol supply is curtailed or cut off through the crisis in Paris on August 24, 1939. (AP...

Adolph Zukor and his wife Lottie Kaufman, pose on a ship, April 24, 1939. (AP Photo)

Death Valley Scotty, the mystery prospector of the California desert, right, and his partner, Albert M. Johnson, are shown in Los Angeles on March 16,...

Winston Churchill in 1939. (AP Photo)

Former governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, republican presidential nominee in 1936 arrived in New York on Nov. 23, 1938 en route to lime Peru, where he...

"Fiddling" and campaigning ran hand in hand for Albert Gore, 30-year-old former state labor commissioner of Carthage, Tenn., shown in an unknown locat...

Former Gov. Alf M. Landon, right, of Kansas, Republican presidential nominee in 1936, with George M. Cohan on May 25, 1938, after the performance of "...

Britain's King George VI formally declared open amid scenes of royal splendour the wonderful Empire Exhibition, which has attracted visitors from all...

Britain's King George VI formally declared open amid scenes of royal splendour the wonderful Empire Exhibition, which has attracted visitors from all...

Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth, behind, and Princess Margaret, watched as 1,200 Boy Scouts from every county in t...

Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, receives from Harry Newman, right, magazine (judge) editor, its annual "high hat" award on April...

Britain's King George VI made a tour of important shadow factories near and outside Birmingham. When he toured the Daimler Shadow factory, he rode in...

Britain's King George VI, centre, with Lord Swinton, left, look at the finished Aero cylinders, on March 10, 1938, during a visit to a factory in Birm...

Britain's King George VI drove in state to St. James Palace, London on March 3, 1938, to hold a Levee at which about 800 presentations were made. His...

Britain's King George VI, second right, and Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Kent, right, visited the British industries fair at Olympia. The Queen was...

Britain's King George VI paid a surprise visit to Woolwich Arsenal, his first visit since his accession, and made a tour of the armaments factories. T...

Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret, partly obscured, driving away from King's Cros...

Alf M. Landon, left, 1936 presidential nominee, Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, center, and Dr. Glenn Frank, Chairman of a national program committee, w...

This bell and clock tower is the most conspicuous feature of Death Valley Scotty's castle, California on Nov. 8, 1937. The chimes can be heard for 20...