Daily Life on Wartime Ships

Images showing sailors engaged in routine tasks aboard naval ships, including ammunition handling and communication with family.

Holocaust; World war two: Warsaw Jews at gunpoint. SS troops look on. Warsaw Ghetto 1943.

Life on Board Hm Corvette Widgeon, August 1943, in the North Sea and at Harwich, Men of the Corvette Widgeon Go About the Everyday Jobs of Their Wartime Routine. The First Lieutenant watching ammunition being taken in and stored in the ready use lockers.

Old Regiment Cheers Churchill -- Troops of the fourth hussars, regiment to which Prime Minister Churchill once Belongeo, cheer him after he addressed them during his visit to North Africa recently. December 25, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Anefo photo collection. Recovery: Arnhem. The Catholic newspaper "Arnhems Dagblad" is distributed to workers and citizens. 1945. Arnhem, Gelderland

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival of the Tegelberg and the Intrapoera. Mancens gather on the quay and read letters. Behind them the intrapora. October 29, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok

Farewell in Madrid To the blue division July 13, 1941.

Holocaust; World war two: Warsaw Jews at gunpoint. SS troops look on. Warsaw Ghetto 1943.

Life Is Hard In Paris -- The inhabitants of the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt enjoy the warmth in a public hall. And this is why the town council could procure it for them: a school, very near the big Renault factories that produced tanks for the German army and was therefore bombed by the R.A.F. since 1941, was evacuated after the first bombardment, but the coal delivery to the school building was not stopped till the liberation. Some weeks ago someone discovered by chance the comparatively large forgotten stocks in the school's cellar. February 1, 1945. (Photo by Leonard McCombe, Sutcliffe Pty. Ltd.).

Troops at various stages of embarkation from Kure. The embarkation was carried out in heavy rain and chill and high morale of the Australians, who were literally "busting to be in it".Australia's contribution to the ground-forces in Korea was voted by experts one of the toughest, most battle-eager groups ever recruited for an Australian Regiment, they were hardened by weeks of solid battle-training on the battle-course at Haramura, Hiroshima Prefecture, once used by the Japanese Imperial Army as a toughening ground for tropic fighting. Them boarding the USNS Aiken Victory for the voyage to South Korean base before joining their American and British comrades of the United Nations Force. October 11, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Film recording for ¨theirs is The Glory¨ (Battle of Arnhem). Figurants in the film. August 1945. Arnhem, Gelderland

With the Czech Contingent in the Midlands - A French 75 gun in action under a camouflage net. October 28, 1941. (Photo by The Times).

More Italian Prisoners Arrive in England. 27 February 1943, Greenock. A close up of some of the Italian prisoners loaded with personal belongings on their arrival at Greenock.

Freedom: Russian slave laborers liberated when Allied troops captured a submarine-making factory east of the Rhine, look on while two others celebrate with a Russian dance. February 04, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Soldiers escort Dismantling WorkersThree soldiers of the First Battallion Manchester Regiment escort a group of German dismantling workers towards a building in the Ruhr-Chemie synthetic Oil Plant at Oberhausen, Germany, today September 5.Four hundred and fifty troops have been sent to the works to protect the men who will dismantle the plant. Dismantling was halted by German mobs last Friday.There were no demonstrations when the soldiers and workmen arrived today. September 20, 1949. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Additional Prisoner of War Pictures -- This is another picture of Americans held prisoners of war by the Communists in North Korea taken by Frank Noel, Associated Press staff photographer himself a prisoner. The picture, one of a series, was made with consent of Noel's captors at prisoner of war camp No. 5 at Pyokdong on the Korean side of the Yalu river. Noel's captions said it shows (l-r) Robert Brooks, Bismarck, Mo.; Alfred Mcneil, Roxbury, Mass.; James W. Fulk, Rushville, Ind., and Richard J. Krammes, Pock, Pa. Noels pictures are taken to Panmunjom by a Communist courier and turned over to the Associated Press. January 30, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

LOUIS WOLHEIM and SLIM SUMMERVILLE in ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930), directed by LEWIS MILESTONE.

Photograph of Young Jewish men being carted off in the Warsaw Ghetto. Dated 1941

Korean War: Chinese and North Korean Communist POWs released from Prisoner of War compounds in Korea after renouncing Communism 1952

No Resistance Now -- Varied Expressions Mark The Faces Of These German Prisoners Taken In Thr Royan, France, Pocket Of Resistance During The All-Out Allied Assault By Ground And Air Forces. U.S. 8Th Air Force Heavies Contributed By Dropping Tons Of High

Canadians In France -- Hollow-eyed from months of pounding by the Allied air offensive, German Prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Normandy, set foot on English soil from a landing craft which wasn't their own. July 24, 1944. (Photo by Canadian W.I.B.).

Just One of The Bodies -- In Barcelona - Just one of the bodies after being exhumed from the debris that was once a fashionable Barcelona street while rescue workers search for more tragic remains during the Franco air raids which school Barcelona today.One of the Worst Air Raids ever inflicted by the Franco forces in war torn Spain ripped Barcelona from side to side today Hurling citizens to death and pear some wounds. The city Echoed and Re-Echoed with the Tragic cries of the wounded -- and was littered with the bodies of the dead. March 21, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

"Ark Royal" Survivors Arrive In England - Some of the survivors - all smiles - after their arrival at a British port.Survivors from the Aircraft Carrier "Ark Royal", torpedoed recently in the Mediterranean - with the loss of only one man A have now arrived in England. November 25, 1941.

01/31/1917. The Portuguese To War. Passage through the Streets of Lisbon, towards the Dock, of the Cavalry Soldiers Sent to France.

Police hold back the crowd who fill the streets when screen actor Valentino is buried at Los Angeles. Date: 7 September 1926

'La Suisse hospitaliere; l'arrivee a Leysin, le 27 janvier 1916, des premiers prisonniers francais malades envoyes en Suisse contre echange equivalent de malades allemands: des fleurs, dont ils se sont pares, leur ont ete offertes a la gare, et ils defilent sous des arcs de triomphe de feuillage, entre deux haies d'honneur de soldats suisse'. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Lancastria Survivors -- Survivors of The Ill-Fated "Lancastria" Cunard White Star Liner, which was bombed off St. Nazaire, France, have arrived in this country. There were 5,000 troops, 300 crew and 50. Civilians aboard. July 26, 1940.

Anefo photo collection. Army exercises near Amsterdam. October 28, 1953. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

08/31/1936. Carrying the body of Emilio Simón Banacheni, from Graphic Arts, who died in Peguerinos.

The field hunter corps.Captured!A traffic lighter is stopped and written down. November 4, 1935. (Photo by Ges.M.B.H.).

Eight Years After - With it's "sting" extracted, the 3000 lb. German Bomb, "Black Max", is hauled up by its neck out of back-garden in Brunton-place, Commercial Road, Stepney, London where it has lain for eight years. Trains stopped, traffic diverted, 1000 people evacuated from their homes - and all because a German bomb dropped in a back-garden in 1941. "Black Max" as this 3000 lb. bomb was not so affectionately called, was only discovered just before Christmas because of a subsidence in Mr. Fry's back garden. January 23, 1949.

Exercise Medical troops, Ede.

Anefo photo collection. Lustrum of Leiden University and of the ceremonies of the reopening. Audience at the Academy Building is underway by soldiers .. September 17, 1945. Leiden, South Holland

09/30/1936. Republican Soldiers Observing the escape of the National Troops in Guadarrama.

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearing briefing (travelers and customs officers in the luggage hall); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

Jewish prisoners captured taken during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, 1943.

Ridgway Farewell at Arc de Triomphe. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

German Civilians See Truckload of Bodies - Civilians in the German city of Weimar are forced by U.S. 3rd Army Military Police (left background) to see a truckload of dead prisoners at Buchenwald, the nearby Nazi Atrocity camp. April 25, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Republican supporters prepare to defend positions in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War 1936

Anefo photo collection. Ambonians occupying home of Indonesian ambassador, Wassenaar. August 31, 1970. Wassenaar, South Holland

Loading the 10.5cm air miner. .

The yogurt revolution, anti-bureaucratic revolution, novi sad, 1988

05/03/1926. Toledo. The flag of Somaten. The president of the Council, general cousin of Rivera (X), giving a speech at the ceremony of blessing the Flag.

08/30/1918. A solemn ceremony in Santander. HM the King (X) Witnessing the laying of the first stone of the building destined for the municipal museum and library.

The Minister For War Sees For Himself -- Mr. Shinwell (light hat) watching a team of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls handling a Predictor on a gun-site at Bostall Health, near London. Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, Minister for War, made a tour of various anti-aircraft and searchlight sites in the London area, seeing for himself the conditions under which the modern Army lives and works. January 04, 1948.

10/31/1936. The Burgos and Basque Militias, in the Center sector.

'Cocktail' Of Death -- Lester Barlow (right), inventor of Bombs, supervises the concoction of one of his explosives during a demonstration March 26 at the Glenn L. Martin airplane factory near Baltimore, Md. The Bomb itself is encased in a cloth bag inside the metal container and the two workmen are pouring a solution of liquid oxygen into the bag already containing carbon. Barlow recently told a senate committee in Washington that the bombs are capable of killing every living thing within a 1, 000 root radius. With an Eight-ounce charge he reduced two big logs to *****. May 13, 1940. (Photo by Associated Presss Photo).

London children play near Tower Bridge during World War II 1941.

Women Allege They Were Forcibly Recruited Greek GuerrillasA woman who alleges she had been forcibly recruited by the Guerrillas is seen telling an officer (left) how Guerillas operate.The Greek army recently launched the first phase of the spring offensive in south central Greece, west and southwest of Lamia and east of Agrinon. During this offensive more than 1,00 casualties were inflicted on the roumeli Guerrilla command, and many Guerrillas were captured or surrendered. March 14, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

A young Jewish boy helps a man who fell on Tram Tracks, in the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw, Poland. The Warsaw Ghetto, was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe during World War Two. It was established by the German authorities in 1940; within the new General Government territory of German-occupied Poland. There were over 400,000 Jews imprisoned there.

The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations. The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state. U.S. military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned

U.S. Navy Flyers In The Aleutians -- With snow whipping their faces, men of a maintenance crew at a U.S. air station in the Aleutian Islands haul a PBY boat out of drifted snow into position for flight. The navy flyers regularly take their big patrol bombers aloft, often in the most difficult weather, to strike at Japanese shipping and installations. November 25, 1954. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

German troops Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

Poll photo collection. Soldiers in Amersfoort. The dormitory. undated. Amersfoort

a group of Montenegran soldiers, prisoners of war, at Samoya, near Pozsanyi (Bratislava) in Hungary, World War One, 1915

German school children performing the Nazi salute. Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship.

Contact: One of the first Australians to land in Japan, Mr. Len Barsdell, of the Department of Information, talking to Japanese who were on the Atsugi aerodrome when the first Allied party arrived. September 5, 1945. (Photo by Australian Official Photo).

Security Precautions Taken In Cyprus -- Men of the Royal Scots recently sent as re-inforcements erecting barbed wire barricades in the town of Kitma, near, Paphos, one of the trouble spots. Picture received from Cyprus by air to-day shows some of the precautions being taken there by British troops in readiness for the 24-hour strike which started to-day. Greek Cypriots have been called out on strike in pretest of the United Nations refusal to discuss the Cyprus question. September 29, 1955.

Anefo photo collection. Gallery of the Frederiksplein shielded with barbed wire. November 9, 1960

Fire Fighters of 250 Years Ago Firefightes of the 17th Century, passing buckets of water, when trying to quell an outbreak of fire. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Fire Brigade of the city of Vienna, a demonstration was giving of fire-fighting in the year 1685. June 8, 1936. (Photo by Keystone).

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The Lotta-Svard Organisation Of Finland. -- The Lotta-Svard Organisation derives its name from a character in a Poem by J.L. Runeberg, the National Poet of Finland, Lotta Svard who accompanied her husband to the war of 1788-90 as a canteen woman. Her husband fell, but Lotta remained to continue her work of mothering his comrades, the Organisation is devided for practical purposes into sections.The Medical section procure means and equipment for the Hospital units which the army will require in the event of mobilisation. May 20, 1940. (Photo by L.N.A.).

Holding Death At Bey -- Pvt. Harvey White, Minneapolis, Army hospital corpsman, holds death of Bey as he tensely administers blood plasma to a wounded Yank at first aid station in the street at San Agata, Sicily, which then was a half mile behind the front lines. What war means to the women in a war zone mirrored in the faces and hands of the women watching White fight with death. September 1, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photograph of a Jewish man moving his possessions from Jaffa to Tel-Aviv as British troops patrol.

Russians Mop Up At Rostov -- These Russian soldiers are hunting through the streets of Rostov for German stragglers at the start of the Red Army winter counter-drive, Moscow sources say. March 9, 1942. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Anefo photo collection. Mounting a bridge arch from the "water olobridge" in the bridge at Oosterbeek. October 1945. Oosterbeek

Worms, air defense exercise of tge Hitler Youth, 1933.

Scotland yard men and pathologists sift every inch of soil *****.***** of Mrs. Durand Deacon's acid-destroyed body. March 20, 1950. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard with General Major a.t.c. Opsomer at army exercise in the Veluwe Crescendo. March 15, 1951. Gelderland, Veluwe

British soldiers guard a barricade during The Easter Rising also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing an independent Irish Republic .Early on Monday morning, 24 April 1916, roughly 1,200 Volunteers and Citizen Army members took over strongpoints in Dublin city centre.

Together again! A couple, re-united at last after many weary anxious months of separation, talk together of the past, oblivious of the crowds around them. A scene at Southampton today when the liner Asturias brought 530 Korea ex-P.O.W's home. September 16, 1953. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Stake, Swedenborg, Strindberg, Fraenkel and possibly Machenon, test assembly of the sledge. Andrées PolarExpedition, 1897.

6Big Poison Bombs Dump Begins To Leak -- Mrs. J. Miller, who lives only a Qurryer-of-A-Mile from the dumps, walking past some of the Somes, with her children, who have to pass the spot every day of their way to school.Along the gale roads between Shepley and Penistone, in the West riding Yorkshire, people yesterday were walking about in Gas-Masks. They had to; deadly ***** were in the air the first warning of dancer game a few weeks aged when people passing the Gas-Bums dump on the ***** "Suelled who visited the dumps ***** that some of the ***** were leaving, and ***** Gas masks to be issued. January 20, 1947. (Photo by Keystone).

Anefo photo collection. Journey from Queen Wilhelmina by liberated southern Netherlands (Zeeland, Brabant and Limburg). Queen Wilhelmina walks into a destroyed part of a city or village with its company. March 13, 1945. Zeeland, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen

Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Security of the Univ. Regiment dressing in their new working suits. May 10, 1939.

Anefo photo collection. Registration participants Four Days Marches of Nijmegen, youngest English military participants (youth kadets). July 17, 1972. Nijmegen

Survivors of an allied Cargo vessel. April 13, 1943.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Mechanic school of the air forces in the downstairs of Batavia. Tinkering to a propeller ?. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Attack on the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, original caption: Prisoner Russians in Slonim, 30.6.1941, Slonim, Belarus, Europe

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Train accident Tjikempek. There is still unrest in the corner of Tjikempek, Poerwakarta and Pagadan Baroe. Terrorists destroy and burn the possessions of the civilian population, as a result, they try to undermine Dutch authority. They also did not like to have the Batavia-Bandoeng train by blaging the rails and shot on it, giving some victims regrettable. Here the despoose statue of the trained train. June 25, 1948. Cikempek, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

With those who defend our Borders: In a bunker has mealtime. March 4, 1940.

Edward G. Robinson Talks With Members Of The 381St Bomb Group After Christening B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Happy Bottom'. England, 5 July 1944.

German Atrocities. July 2, 1942. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited).

U. S. Army in France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Russians and Poles Freed From German Labor Battalions by U.S. Troops in France -- Russians and Poles who were forced to labor for the Germans cheer their liberation by U.S troops who set them free in Normandy. The Germans shipped these men from occupied Poland and Russia, impressing them into labor battalions to build coastal fortifications that proved futile. These laborers were liberated by American infantry man who lashed out from boneheads on the northern coast of France, on June 6,1944 cracking the vaunted- Atlantic Wall, which Germans had labored four years to build, and freeing, three weeks later, the strategic port of Cherbourg. The Allies now have a first-class harbor one of the main trans-Atlantic shipping terminals to feed their secure and expanding bridgehead in France. July 14, 1944.

10/31/1936. Republican soldiers drinking water after a combat on the Guadalajara front.

The Prime Minister Inspects Defences Of The Southern Command -- The Prime Minister passing and leaving blockhouses. July 19, 1940. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Freedom Bound - These UN prisoners of war wait at Pyoktong, North Korea, for transportation to take them to freedom at Panmunjom. Left to right: Robert Guess, Luton, Bedfordshire, England; Roy Jones, Minneapolis; Gerald E. Neighbord, Hereford, Tex., and Odie Lawley, Lawton, Okla. This picture was made by Frank Noel, Associated Press photographer, himself a prisoner of the Communists since the early days of the war and passed by both UN and Communist censors. April 20, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

The Yao nationality (its great majority branch is also known as Mien; Pinyin: Yáo zú; Vietnamese: người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China. They form one of the 55 ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where they reside in the mountainous terrain of the southwest and south. They also form one of the 54 ethnic groups officially recognized by Vietnam. In the last census, they numbered 2,637,421 in China, and roughly 470,000 in Vietnam. In Thailand they number 40,000 and in Laos 20,000.

State lanes staff on the excursion trip to Nynäshamn.

12/31/1914. A theatrical performance in Campaña. Convalescent English Soldiers Entering the barracks prepared for the Theatrical Performances given by the Mr. Hicks company as a gift to the Allied Combatants.

Anefo photo collection. School students visit KMA Breda. March 31, 1953. Breda

Anefo photo collection. General curls. February 22, 1946

N.E.S. woman ambulance workers bringing in a gassed a badly burnt patient to the aid post-at North Bondi Republic school during NES demonstration today. December 01, 1940. (Photo by Barry Newberry/Fairfax Media).

SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993), directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG.

Milt-Aust-troops in Korea. January 1, 1953.

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearing briefing (customs officer and traveler during luggage control); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

09/05/1914. The English and the War. Irish soldier wounded in both legs, being taken to the steamer to repatriate him.

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