Historic Military Operations

Black and white images depicting soldiers during various military operations, including minefield clearance and inspections, showcasing wartime activities and landscapes.

German prisoners clearing a minefield on the west coast of Jutland in Denmark, 1945
German prisoners clearing a minefield on the west coast of Jutland in Denmark, 1945
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The German Spring Offensive, March-july 1918
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Cowboys Branding Cattle on an Open Range circa 1938-1948.
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Service personnel carry rockets from jeep to launching platform. November 16, 1949.
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Mtc Girls For America- Women of the Mechanised Transport Corps at Work, London, England, 1940 Mrs Pat Macleod accepts a cigarette from a member of the Pioneer Corps as she and Miss Winifred Ashford enjoy a cup of tea, somewhere in London. They are resting on a large pile of rubble. Behind them, more rubble and timbers can be seen, and also visible is the interior wall of the house which once stood on this site.
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United States Army Signal Corps using captured German telephone equipment, World War I
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Soria, 08/30/1911. Artillery Practices. Heliographic station installed during maneuvers on the Logroño highway.
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Members of the VDC grouped around the end of a coastal gun, (left to right) Privates M. McIntyre, W. Liddle and R. Walker. They are at present undergoing training in the use of coastal defense guns. May 31, 1943.
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Cecil Beaton Photographs- General
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Poll photo collection. Prince Bernhard visits Dutch troops on their army base in Great Britain during the Second World War. Prince Bernhard shakes a soldier hand. 1940. Great Britain
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Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Wageningen. Preparations and negotiations to the capitulation in Wageningen. Arrival of the German negotiating delegation. May 5, 1945. Gelderland, Wageningen
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Officials. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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The operating defense yard, Tomnäs
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War A snowman on the quarterdeck of the destroyer HMS KELVIN made by the officers and some of the crew and seen complete with helmet and gas mask. Nuts and bolts are used for the eyes, nose and mouth, and a metal plate for a beard.
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Anefo photo collection. Koks in Eefde. July 10, 1948. Eefde
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Anefo photo collection. Liberation joy: Amersfoort. Children in traditional costume on a Canadian armored wagon. May 7, 1945. Amersfoort
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Before the Navy could sweep the docks at Antwerp men of the Royal Engineers had to make a path through the land mines on the banks. Here naval personnel move a stake sweep behind RE's who make sure there are no land mines.
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Personnel at SJ military agency at German tent camp at Trelleborg Bangård. The man on the right is a 2nd class military assistant.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Purification campaign Bangoesbaai, Padang. Soengai Pisang. For this section there is a reason to be satisfied with the result of the purification patrol; A whole arsenal fell into your hands. October 5, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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DM-SN-86-00884. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Anefo photo collection. Water shortage 1953. Ouwerkerk, police in dry places. December 1, 1953. Ouwerkerk
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Poll photo collection. Scotland - The Highlands. Army place of the Highlanders during the Highland Games, a nineteenth-century continuation of traditional clan games from the highlands of Scotland. 1934. Great Britain, Scotland
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04/20/1922. Guadalajara. In the Aerostation field. His Majesty the King (1), with General Echagüe (2), after witnessing the Practices Carried out by the Military Airmen.
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US Troops in An English Village- Everyday Life With the Americans in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England, UK, 1944 Two American soldiers sit on top of an abandoned concrete blockhouse on Burton Beach, just south of Burton Bradstock in Dorset. On the left, Corporal Bert Markowitz (of 30-46, 23rd Street, Astoria, Queen's, New York) plays his violin as T/5 G R Miller (of 4106 Vermont Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky) listens in the early evening sunshine. Behind them, the ridged rock of Burton Cliff can be clearly seen. The original caption states that Cpl Markowitz was a student at the University of Miami before the war and played with the NBC as a studio musician.
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Photo moment of repeat exercise in Doorn / Veluwe of an Infantry Bataljon of the Marines Corps. Is part of Object series AVDKM 53146 to 53165.
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Repairing a break in communications - British soldiers fixing wire in World War I France - 1917
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Eager To Please -- Wispy beard straggles untidily over dirty padded suit, Army socked feat are encased in roughly-made moccasins-and there's every eager desire to please in the expression of this old North Korean during his interrogation by American officers in the battle area. First contact with the enemy was made through the interrogation of the old man, who was flushed by a foot patrol in front of a tank column. As one American tersely observed 'better to find the enemy's whereabouts like this, than through a burst of machine-gun fire. May 14, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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Father and son fight for the republican side during the Spanish Civil War