The start of the war is generally held to be at dawn on Friday, 1 September
1939, when German troops and tanks raided the Polish countryside,
destroying everything in their path. A little over an hour later, Nazi
dive-bombers were attacking the civilians of Poland’s capital city
of Warsaw. The bombing destroyed cities, railroads, and military
bases. Britain and France declared war on Germany two days
later.

 
A German air patrol fly’s over Poland

Polish oil and gas tanks are set aflame by the German
bombardment at Westerplatte

Nazi soldiers march on Poland

U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (center) during his Soviet tribunal

The Lockheed U-2

Wreckage of the downed spy plane

Amelia Earhart

(Reuters) – A team of researchers trying to solve the mystery of aviator
Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance said on Friday that underwater
video from a Pacific island has revealed a field of man-made debris
that could be remnants of her plane.

The footage was collected in July by The International Group for Historic
Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) during a $2.2 million expedition to Nikumaroro
in the Republic of Kiribati.

Amelia Earhart‘s Lockheed Model 10 Electra 

Underwater video showing  a semicircle at top (the fender?) and a round object
off to right. (Click to enlarge)

The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bomber

Pilot Paul Tibbets waives from Enola Gay’s cockpit  before
taking off for the bombing mission   

 
The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima

  
  James Travis "Jim" Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964)

Country/pop singer Jim Reeves, whose biggest hit was 1960’s "He’ll Have
To Go", was killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed near
Nashville. He was 39. Dean Manuel, Reaves’ piano player-road manager,
was also killed in the crash. After Reaves’ death, his widow continued to
release his material well into the 1980s.

 
The wreckage of Jim Reeves private-single-engine plane  

Released in January of 1964