Dead Italian soldier holding a photograph of his child, north Africa, WWII, c. 1940's

British Soldiers (interrupted during drag show rehearsals by a German raid) manning a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun at Shornemead Fort, England in 1940

Winston Churchill with a Tommy Gun during an inspection near Hartlepool, 1940.

Photograph entitled "Wait for Me, Daddy". It shows a child running to his father, a Canadian soldier, before being deployed during The Second World War. Behind you can see his mother. October 1, 1940.

Soldiers (who were interrupted during rehearsals for a drag show by an air raid) manning anti-aircraft guns at the Royal Artillery Coastal Defence Battery at Shornemead Fort, Kent, England, 1940

Anne Frank, with her sister Margot at Zandvoort Beach, 1940.

dog being posed by a German soldier, 1940

Adolf Hitler with a unit of the Luftwaffe Fallschirmjager called "The Green devils" who captured the belgian fort at Eben Emael on 11 May , June 1940 , ,

Drive-in car hops in shorts and cowboy boots at the Log Lodge Tavern near Love Field Airport in Dallas, Texas, 1940.⁣

A Family of migratory fruit workers from Texas during Cherry-picking season. Berrien County, Michigan, July 1940.

Bride leaving her recently bombed home to get married, London, Nov 4, 1940.

Anne Frank and her sister Margot at the beach, Zandvoort - August 1940

Drive-in car hops in shorts and cowboy boots at the Log Lodge Tavern near Love field airport in Dallas, Texas, 1940

Germans testing a Messerschmitt Bf 109 E3, 1940

German soldiers march triumphantly past the French WWI victory monument in Verdun during the Fall of France, 1940

Japanese scientists of Unit 731 conduct germ warfare experiments on Chinese children in Jilin Province, Manchukuo - 1940

Unit 731 personnel conduct a bacteriological trial upon a test subject in northeast China, 1940.

Salvador Dali painting "The Face of War", 1940.

The London sky after a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.

Woman lounging in the beach with allied supplies and artillery pieces after the Dunkirk evacuation, 1940.

Superman in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. New York City, November 21, 1940

The Twin Towers collapse due to a terrorist attack in 2001, photo taken with the Katyń Memorial in Jersey City, the memorial was dedicated to the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre, in which thousands of Polish Army officers and intellectual leaders were massacred by the Soviet NKVD.

Father Christmas exchanges his red hood for a helmet to deliver presents during the London Blitz, 1940.

Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, 7th February 1940.

Lt Franz Von Werra playing with "Simba" a lion cub, the mascot of JG3. France Circa July 1940

Hitler and other Nazis visiting Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides 1940

German soldiers mock the recent Allied defeat in France by wearing captured British and French helmets, 1940.

Polish Soldiers Legion At In France On 1940 January 1(Photo by Keystone)

April 1940. "Children living in shacktown along Mississippi River bottom. Dubuque, Iowa."

British soldiers manning an aircraft gun whilst wearing women dresses. (1940)

Albert Einstein, and his secretary Helen Dukas (left), and daughter Margaret (right) becoming U.S. citizens to avoid returning to Nazi Germany, 1940

Two men in their apartment. Nashville, 1938 - 1940. Photo by Peter Sekaer

After being evacuated from Dunkirk, British troops aboard a destroyer arrive at Dover, May 1940

A dancing bear and its keeper on a Salonika street, Greece, 1940

Patricia O'Keefe, 8-year-old bodybuilder carries Wayne Long, a 200-pound (90 kg) man, on his back in an unusual display of strength. 1940

British troops rehearsing in drag for their Christmas charity performance are suddenly called to deal with the approach of Luftwaffe bombers flying across the Channel to mount raids over southern England, with no time to change. 1940

Londoners enjoying themselves at a Christmas party in an underground shelter. The Blitz, 25 December 1940.

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy smiling and shaking hands, circa 1940 (colorized)

Captain Helmut Wick, the German fighter pilot, describes his last fights to his comrades in which he crashed five Spitfires in a row, September 1940.

February 1940 a '39 GMC hauls a load of Pontiacs down the main street of Eufaula Oklahoma. Colorized 2400 x 1600

Polish women led to execution site in a forest near Palmiry village close to Warsaw. Woman in the foreground was identified after the war by her checked coat as Janina Skalska, age 38, miller's wife from Piaseczno. Palmiry, Poland, 1940.

Shiro Ishii was a Surgeon General in the Imperial Japanese Army. He headed the biological warfare department and commanded the infamous Unit 731 which was responsible for numerous gruesome war crimes during 1936-45. He received immunity from the USA in exchange for his research. 1940

A man has his nose measured during Aryan race determination tests under Nazi Germany's Nuremberg Laws that was applied to determine whether a person was considered a “Jew”, 1940.

A group of SS men smile for a photo together in the recreational SS colony in Kleinobringen. The colony was not far from Buchenwald concentration camp, where over 56,000 people were killed. In front of them is a foosball table, Nazi Germany, 1940 .

Horns captured from Soviet troops during the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. Pelkosenniemi, Finland, January 4th, 1940.

Captured Senegalese soldiers in service with the French army shortly before being massacred by the Germans at Chasselay near Lyon, 1940

Community grocery store owner, Harlem, New York, 1940.

Frida painting in bed, 1940. Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience of chronic pain.

Photograph taken by Walter Frentz when Adolf Hitler received information that France would surrender - June 17, 1940.

A Norwegian soldier on guard duty marching past the main gate into the Royal Norwegian Air Force's 'Little Norway' training facility, located in Toronto, Canada. November 1940.