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1940s Cinematic Military Life

Film stills depicting military scenarios and narratives from the 1940s, illustrating the intertwining of everyday life and military service.

Sailor closing submarine door

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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Soebang and surroundings: Training Indonesian volunteers. Interior of a military post, volunteer registration. January 1949. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Amsterdam fire department. February 4, 1946

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Presentation of a bravery divorce aboard a naval ship in Vlissingen.

Enlisted Man Writing Letter Home, Air Service Command, Greenville, South Carolina, USA, by Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, July 1943

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Misc. - Prisons - General. November 14, 1932.

Opening of new buildings at army of Oirschot by State Secretary G.H.J.M. Peijnenburg. The State Secretary is surrounded by one of the soldiers. Links the quarter-general Lieutenant General L.W.C. Adank.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Evening lessons for soldiers in Medan. A teacher looks into her bag. March 1947. Indonesia, Medan, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

THE STEEL HELMET (1951), directed by SAMUEL FULLER.

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Committee judgment. September 2, 1965

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