Evolution of Military Technology

Captures of military personnel using radar and discussing jet technology advancements, highlighting significant moments in the mid-20th century.

1950 - Radiological defense monitors check military men for radiation.

Chimney sweep. A man works as chimney sweeper and climbing the roof all dressed for work and carrying his equipment. Sweden 1940. Kristoffersson ref 120-2

Owen tinkers with the wireless on top of which are photos of his two brothers now in the army at Tobruck. March 27, 1947.

Swiss papal guards during the first complete opening of the bronze door. 1920

Leon Czolgosz (1873-1901), American president William McKinley's assassin, in a prison cell, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, No 3058, October 5, 1901.

Coffee Shop Serves Dual Purpose--From The Battery Of Glass Coffee Makers In The Background Come Gallons Of Amber Fluid To Warm The Returning Crews And Ease The Strain Of 'Sweating Out' The Take Off. In This Alert Hut The Participating Crews Find Tables Ar

Los Angeles, California: October 1, 1946. A deputy sheriff stands with a cocked pistol near a fallen fellow officer, holding back a crowd of pickets demonstrating at the MGM Studio.

Italian terrorist Renato Curcio, founder and ideologist of the left-wing terrorist group Red Brigades, sitting handcuffed during the trial at the Corte d'Assise. Renato Curcio is charged with organization of an armed group targeting the violent suppressing of legal, economic and political systems of Italian State. Milan, June 1977

Anefo photo collection. "Milestone 1950" in Arnhem. May 3, 1950. Arnhem

World War II 1939-1945. Barrel of a large gun with German soldier at fortifications, 1943. Weapon Armament Heavy Artillery Guard Rifle

KEN WATANABE in LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006), directed by CLINT EASTWOOD.

Vintage photograph. Policeman blowing whistle while holding up hand

Recovering Soldiers, Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1918

National military boxing championships at the Marines in the Van Braam Houckgeestkazerne (VBHKAZ) in Doorn. The award ceremony.

Man with Packages leaving Post Office, Hermiston, Oregon, USA, Russell Lee, U.S. Office of War Information, September 1941

Army Presidential Flight crew portrait photo. Major William H. Harper, of the United States Army Presidential Flight crew (Executive Flight Detachment), sits at his desk. Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

España. Guerra civil (1936-1939). Falange española y de las J.O.N.S. División 72 del Cuerpo del Ejército de Castilla. Flechas Verdes, junto a legionarios del Corpo Truppe Volontaire, CTV, formaron una unidad mixta italo-española movilizada para hacer frente en la ofensiva de Catalunya al final de la contienda. Oficial italiano acompañado de dos soldados en el peñón de Ifach. Marzo de 1939.

Group of wounded Italian Soldiers being cared for in American Hospital No 5, Auteuil, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, September 1918

The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. A wounded soldier in a hospital in Rovaniemi North Finland. Keeping busy with knitting socks. General Wallenius daughter and a nurse are helping him with the knitting. January 1940 Photo Kristoffersson ref 97-4.

The Joint Service band rehearses at the Lincoln Memorial in preparation for the pre-inaugural celebration, American Reunion on the Mall. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Colonial Rest Centre in Britain, 1944 A group of students and members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service from the British colonies at a rest centre in England.

Police Officer, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA, Gordon Parks, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1943

Hon. James Buchanan Richmond of Virginia, Confederate States of America, Captain of Company A, 50th Virginia Infantry, May 1861, 64th Virginia Infantry May 1862, Half-length Portrait, Brady-handy Collection, 1865

Major General William E. Kepner. Other Two Officers Not Identified.

Women at War 1939 - 1945 Auxiliary Territorial Service: ATS girl on the range at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit, Shoeburyness, Essex uses a hand phone to inform the Observation Post when the gun is fired so that the observers can watch for the shell burst.

Turkish Troops - Post War Troops - Foreign Troops. March 4, 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post).

United Nations Fight for Freedom: Boy Scout in front of Capitol. They help out by delivering posters to help the war effort - 1943.

Land Army girl Doreen Bacchus at the Women's Timber Corps training camp at Culford in Suffolk. Doreen Bacchus, a Land Army girl, on a tractor.

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