Coastal Defense Artillery

Images showcase historic coastal artillery and naval installations, reflecting military technology and defensive strategies from past conflicts.

Personnel of the 6th Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating) salvage all useful parts from a charred Jap ship captured in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, 9 July 1945.

The Hon. W.W. Astor M.P. ***** seated on Revolving Horse. October 19, 1943.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: January 7, 1942 The wreckage of a Japanese torpedo plane shot down during the surprise attack on December 7 being salvaged from the bottom of Pearl Harbor.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. A 4,000-lb GP Bomb is hoisted from its trolley during operational trials at Marham, Norfolk. It entered general service with Bomber Command squadrons in early 1943, but proved inferior to the 4,000-lb HC Bomb in its blast effect and was withdrawn from service by the end of the year. In the background Vickers Wellingtons of No. 115 Squadron RAF can be seen parked at their dispersals.

Dt.Shiter at height Östl.Podwysokia for aviator defense. .

Bomb laden trailers are ready to leave the area and make their way to the hoists that will carry them to the yawning bomb bays of the giant bombers as they await take-off to enemy targets on 6 June 44.

At This Raf Station In Kirkham, England, Practical Knowledge Is Taught On Actual Machines. Here, A Class On The Maintenance Of Guns Goes On To The Range For Firing Practice. The Gun Is A 20 Mm. Hispano And Is Installed In A Wing Section. Members Of The

Machine in the section of the 4th K.U.K. Army.

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana visits wreck Roman ship in Zwammerdam; Queen Juliana at wreck (wreck in foreground). March 29, 1974. South Holland, Zwammerdam

Schnorkle on deck on captured German U-Boat , Ventilation. Photographs of the First Naval District

"The Tragedy of Russia" -- At this children's camp near Moscow everything is run by the youngsters themselves - seven down to the blowing of "Revelle". "The Soviet Government appears deliberately to prevent intercourse between the Russian people and the rest of the world" said Mr. Attlee, British Prime Minister, when he addressed the Trade Union conference at Brighton on October 24th last. Referring to "The Russian Tragedy" he added that the Russians were subjected to "fantastic misrepresentations"about other nations. September 3, 1951.

An English Royal Flying Corps plane is ready to leave for the western front. Official press photo approved by the British censorship of a British plane from the First World War. The photo contains censorship stamp and title and data in Typoscript (VERSO).

Photo collection Government information service. Apparators, Friesland. undated. Friesland

Personnel at the State Railways, SJ CO8 2577 after train accident.

Rivet team at Gävle lap. Nitarlag vid Gävle Varv.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Two firemen wearing the new fire fighting suits at work with the hose at Rosyth.

THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967), directed by ROBERT ALDRICH.

Project 20 - Operation Greenhouse (Enewetak) Test Activities. Pickup of Animals After Easy Shot. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Anefo photo collection. Fifty-one shots over Batavia. February 22, 1947. Batavia

Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Lewis Payne, standing in overcoat and without hat. Federal guard standing on left. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

CIVIL WAR-Fortifications and batteries near Yorktown.

AM-432 Dynamic , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

French naval heavy artillery piece on railway in 1917.

W.J. Reilly

Boys observing gun , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

'The Austrian 12-inch Siege Howitzer', First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). 'The 30.5cm siege howitzer...is one of the most terrible engines of destruction used in the Great War...It is manufactured at the Skoda works in Bohemia...and fires a shell weighing over 1000 pounds'. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

Anefo photo collection. Den Oever press conference on Drebbel Bakishwijs. August 17, 1948

Description. Recorded on 5.V.1916. Oleszow. .

87a - Pilotless Plane, Robot Bomb, Doodle Bug, V2 Bomb. May 29, 1945. (Photo by The Associated Press Ltd.).

DA-SD-05-00660. Base: Fort Myer, Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

This 1901 photo show a nickel steel armor plate ingot cast for the port plate of U.S. battle ship Iowa. Noted on the ingot is its weight: 273,500 lbs. The ingot was manufactured by the Bethlehem Steel Company, which, during WWI and WWII was amajor supplier of armor plate and ordnance. The USS Iowa was launched in 1942 and decommissioned in 1990. It was nicknamed 'The Big Stick' and its motto was 'Our liberties We Prize, Our Rights We Will Maintain.' She was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean in World War II. She also served in the Pacific in WWII and she served in the Korean War. 20th century.

Watertown Arsenal XM33 launchers , Armories, Ordnance industry, Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Rostov-on-Don, Russia 1918Weapons that arrived on a train for the White Volunteer Army during the Russian Revolution

240 MM gun carriage , Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

War album 106, picture 32369.

Oscar II (depicted - name).Oscar II (depicted - name)

American searchlights ***** target planes flying at ***** feet . . . America, while maintaining her neutrality, is building mighty fighting forces in readiness to meet any threat to her interests. December 29, 1939.

Anefo photo collection. National Aviation Day at Soesterberg (Major M. E. J. A. Smitshuysen, head LVD, demonstrates shooting chair). April 1, 1959. Soesterberg

Anefo photo collection. Ring sign at Pentecost-three on Walcheren. 14 May 1951. Walcheren, Zeeland

Mme. Colliers & Gabron

Light image, teletorn, tomelilla.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Bear trap placed in no man's land, Western Front, by Geramns for catching patrols.

Image series for SJ-NTF Brochure

War album 95, picture 28296.

Aircraft, Burma, India & INDIA,BOMBS War

Canon, State War & Navy Department, Washington, D.C.. ca. between 1910 and 1920.

Italian plane following its forced landing at Maria Gail Photographer: 10. Armeekommando.

Anefo photo collection. Monument in Tilburg for the Princess Irenebrigade. October 26, 1955. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Newsman Tours Restricted Areas As "Russian Colonel" - Normand (cq) Poirier, a reporter for The Pottstown, Pa., Mercury dressed in a rented Russian colonel's uniform snaps photos of the Pottstown waterworks and a critical bridge during an uninterrupted our of defense areas in this section. The stunt was designed to show that off-limit restrictions placed on Russians traveling in various defense areas was not effective. Poirier presumably put "polson" pills in the water supply, snapped photos and "blew" a bridge during his tour. January 25, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Netherlands, 1900-09 part 1. 1910. Vinkhuijzen, Hendrik Jacobus. still image. Illustrations. General Research Division. Military uniforms , History, Netherlands

Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection German long-range gun which bombarded Paris.

Powder monkey by gun of U.S.S. New Hampshire off Charleston, South Carolina. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel.

Recovered shells

Artillery hold in the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Feth-i Bülend / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères

View of a Torpedo Shack and Rows of Torpedoes at the Naval Air Station at Squantum, Massachusetts. U.S. Naval Air Station Squantum, Massachusetts. Squa X.No. 2786. Date 6/22/44. Made for Public Works Dept. Subject: Torpedo Shack.. 1944-06-22T00:00:00.

Anefo photo collection. Demonstration launch postket. Demonstration launch postket on the Larense Heide C.Q. Crailose Heide .. December 15, 1945. Laren (Noord-Holland)

War album 20, picture 5409.

Barcelona, 1916. At the Casa Antúnez airfield, in Barcelona. The captain general, mr. Felipe Alfau, contemplating the airfield where the aviator Hedilla made brilliant flights.

A Member Of The 443Rd Signal Construction Battalion Fastens One Of The Communication Lines To A Pole. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 A group of Land Army students sit at one end of the cow shed to watch instructors demonstrate the art of milking as part of their training at Northampton Institute of Agriculture.

Service firing 240-mm Howitzer, Fort Bragg, N. C. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Service firing 240-mm Howitzer, Fort Bragg, N. C. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

S / S Drottningholm

11/07/1982. Seville. Exhibition of firefighters at Expojuventud.

Photograph showing a German V-1 'Flying Bomb', on display in an exhibition in the Piccadilly showrooms of Rootes Ltd., London, 1944. The circular objects, in the foreground of this picture, were removed from the V-1 and previously held compressed air which drove the rockets autogyros. Date: 1944

Military Militär

Camouflage netting covers communications equipment during exercise Solar Flare. Subject Operation/Series: SOLAR FLARE Country: Unknown

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection 3300 lb bomb (S.N. Major). Special made for bombing German territory and to be carried on four engined Handley Page bombers. V.1500. Three only were made.

General Kitchener and the Anglo-egyptian Nile Campaign, 1898 Captain Adolf von Tiedemann, German Military attachí and observer of the Campaign, poses in full dress uniform beside the River Nile after the Battle of Omdurman, during which Anglo Egyptian forces regained control of the city of Khartoum. Von Tiedemann accompanied Lord Kitchener when he travelled by boat to Khartoum for the ceremony to commemorate the death of General Gordon (who was killed when Khartoum fell to Mahdist forces on 26 January 1885).

I'm Getting Steamed Artist: STAFF SGT. Brian Fairchild. Country: Unknown

DN-SN-85-04133. Base: Pascagoula State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Eastern German skipeniums "King Everest" exercises at Riekermolen. August 8, 1961

WWII Training Balloons

The eye and ears of the army, greetings from Camp Lee, Va. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

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