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Historic Military Moments

Black and white photos capturing historical military actions and personnel, showcasing various troops and their preparations amid challenging conditions.

''Les premiers contingents Franco-Anglais a Salonique; A Zeitenlick; la vie au camp', 1915 (1924). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.
''Les premiers contingents Franco-Anglais a Salonique; A Zeitenlick; la vie au camp', 1915 (1924). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.
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Marines from Headquarters, Marine Corps Air Station, are given instructions by a special agent during FBI Special Weapons and Tactical training course. Base: Tustin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Chileans In Antarctic -- While Naval cadets and sailors watch, the Chilean flag is run up at a new Chilean Antarctic Military base on O'Higgins land ( Graham Land) when President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla visited the base, February 18.The President, standing at foot of flag staff, said he was sure Chileans "will be able to maintain with virility the sovereignty and unity of our territory from Africa to the South Pole." April 13, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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A line of Tachen refugees climb over a hill to reach their designated embarkation point. In the background native sampans are used during low tide to carry evacuees to landing craft. February 18, 1955. (Photo by United Press).
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Italy. trentino alto adige. dolomites. 1919.
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Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.
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Claw
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Allied Cargo Ships Unload In A Port In Southern Italy, World War II, 1944.
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First Exclusive Pictures Of Soviet Concentration Camp. Russians Revive Notorious Sachsenhausen -- Sachsenhausen camp guarded by watchetower and barbed wire. The sign reads: Forbidden zone. Entry forbidden. You will be shot. Machine-gunners and rifle men man these towers. These first pictures of the Soviet-ruled Sachsenhausen camp were taken, at risk of his life, by a photographer - deliberately unidentified - who crouched amid tombstones two hundred yards from prowling Russian sharp-shooters and machine-gunners. According to reports there are about 14,500 men and 1,500 women interned in Sachsenhausen, notorious under the Nazis, now run by the Soviet political police. It is said 114 died there in one day at the beginning of 1948. June 24, 1949.
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Travel photos Greece. Athens. Acropolis. Odeion with past soldiers
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Landsknecht vor einer Schlacht (Landsknecht in front of a Battle) after a painting by F. Mueller-Münster, Historical, digitally restored reproduction ...
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March 1915. The Kings in Seville. Their Majesties the Kings, with their Accompaniment, during their recent visit to the Ruins of Itálica.
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Italian troops in Albania, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 23, June 10, 1917.
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Anefo photo collection. Annual commemoration of 1940-1945 at the honorary cemetery in Overveen. Persons present. May 10, 1971. Noord-Holland, Overveen
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Loading of luggage in the evacuation of Finnish refugees, autumn 1944.
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07/31/1917. The Allies in Athens. Kitchen of a French artillery battery near the acropolis.
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08/31/1937. A street in Quinto (Zaragoza), one of the towns reconquered by the soldiers of the republic on the Aragon front.
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10/31/1917. The French in the East. General Sarrail (X) during his visit to the Monks of Saint Stephen, in Thessaly.
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Mr A. S. Vernay visited a village of the head-hunting Burmese Nagas with the American Museum of Natural History expedition, taking the photographs that appear on this page which include, clockwise from top left: The chief of a tribe of head-hunting Nagas in full war-dress; close-up of the chief wearing a red and yellow battle head-dress with boar tusks; the chief in 'un-dress'; the sham fighting in full war-dress in the Naga ceremonial dance; dancers in the Naga head-hunting dance; another view
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Children in a Nazi extermination camp in Eastern Europe circa 1945.
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Harbor Split. May 01, 1941.
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07/19/1936. A group of militiamen guard some nuns in Alcalá de Henares, during the first days of the Civil War.
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Allied Forces that Drove Japanese From Lae.-- Melody Parade talent quest was conducted on a stage set up the New Guinea Army Paper "Guinea Gold". Nearby a thousand people stood in drenching rain to watch the opening performance.Allied forces under General McArthur are clearing Japanese bases in New Guinea. Following the taking of Lae and Solomana, Australians are advancing on Finschhafen to the North. Fighting in these areas of jungle and swamp presents difficulties met in no other theatre of operations. December 20, 1943. (Photo by Australian Official Photograph).