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Historic Military Parades and Training

Black and white images showcasing military parades and training of troops, featuring soldiers in formation with rifles, set in historical contexts from Indonesia and Japan.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Madura. Indonesian recruten?. August 1947. Indonesia, Madura, Dutch East Indies

07/31/1909. A wounded Moor. During one of the battles recently held by the indigenous police with the Rifis of the mosque, one of those whom our soldiers accompanied to the hospital was wounded.

Madrid, 5/31/1906.- Wedding of Alfonso XIII with Victoria Eugenia Julia Ena de Battenberg.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection American troops waiting to entrain at Wiinchester Station.

07/31/1936. Toledo (Spain). Spanish Civil War. A parapet with its complement of militiamen in the surroundings of the Alcázar of Toledo.

World War I, members of the English Worcester Regiment who fought in the Battle of Ypres, 1914

The Japanese Invasion of French Indochina, also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was a move by the Empire of Japan in September 1940, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina, via the Sino-Vietnamese Railway from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan. Japan occupied northern Indochina, which tightened the blockade of China, and made continuation of the drawn out Battle of South Guangxi unnecessary. In March 1945, Japan launched the Second French Indochina Campaign and ousted the Vichy French and formally installed Emperor Bao Dai in the short-lived Empire of Vietnam. In August 1945, Japanese forces surrendered in Indochina at the end of World War II.

1st Medium Bde at Holdsworthy throwing the rain after loading 6 howitzer. May 25, 1940. (Photo by Barry Newberry/).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Training of pre-federal troops in the rehabilitation camp Ambulanu. At Djember (East Java) is the rehabilitation camp for ex-tni-ers ambulu. Under the expert guidance of a few KNIL instructors, the recruits that consist of former prisoners of prisoners and ex-tnquitors are trained for their internal task to ensure order and tranquility in the United States of the United States in the future federal army Indonesia. September 1949. Indonesia, Jember, Dutch East Indies

Britain's Paratroops -- The service takes to silk.Parachute troops on parade before entering the aeroplane. Their parachute harness is carefully inspected to see that it is correctly fitted. Paratroops under instruction have been obtained at a secret R.A.F. station in Britain where the Army and Air Force are collaborating in training. January 01, 1941. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Anefo photo collection. Mobilization in Vietnam i.v.m. The border war with China. Training of militia in Hanoi. March 19, 1979. Hanoi, Vietnam

08/01/1937. Officers under the command of Commander Castejón who began the march towards Extremadura.

Soviet Russian women soldiers circa 1922

The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, Anti-French War, Franco-Vietnamese War, Franco-Vietminh War, Indochina War, Dirty War in France, and Anti-French Resistance War in contemporary Vietnam) was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954. The war took place between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Emperor Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp. Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina protectorates of Laos and Cambodia. The war ended in French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Defenses Of The East Coast Of Great Britain: Men of the Royal Scots Fusiliers march on the beach for their training. November 5, 1940. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

General Kitchener and the Anglo-egyptian Nile Campaign, 1898 Emir Mahmoud, leader of the Sudanese (Dervish) forces is captured at the Battle of Atbara. He is shown with a prisoner escort formed of men from the 10th Sudanese Battalion. The bloodstains on his jibba are from a bayonet wound to his left leg. Mahmoud was imprisoned at Rosetta and died in 1906.

German soldiers in Warsaw 1939 after the invasion of poland in World war II.

National Security Volunteer Militia (MVSN) on parade, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXV, No 8, February 20, 1938.

Marine Volkswoche in Kiel, Marine Landing Corps from the Colonial Acquisition Period, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original artwork from the early 20th century, exact original date unknown

Anefo photo collection. Four Days Marches, third day. A group of Israeli soldiers on the way. July 18, 1968

The ROKs have a Fighting Navy -- The brass section of the ROK Navy Band runs through a tree-shaded rehearsal at the naval reservation at Chinhae.The Republic of Korea has a Navy of approximately 50 ships and ten thousand officers and men. Whatever the ROKs lack in numbers they more than make up for in fighting spirit. To the ROKs falls the lion's share of the close inshore patrol and blockade of the long Korean coastline, a job that calls for their shallow draft craft and their aggressive sailors. Commando and behind-the-lines operations are a day in and day out job of the ROK Navy and Marine Corps. June 18, 1951. (Photo by "Official U.S. Navy Photograph").

Anefo photo collection. Parent day Marinierskamp in Doorn. December 9, 1948. Doorn

The Fifth Meets The Eights -- A Patrol of Yank soldiers of the Fifth army (all wearing helmets) greet an advance party of the British Eighth Army after halting it and checking identifications. The Yank, (second form left) shakes hands with a Britisher, who evidently is being twitted by another. Everybody grinds for joining of the armies meant relief for the hard-pressed fifth army on the Salerno front. September 22, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

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05/01/1968. Parade at the 2nd of May festival in Madrid.

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Soldiers during an exercise at the Morib Beach camp in Malacca. March 1946. Malacca, Malaysia

Germany, 09/01/1939. World War II officially begins. Border barriers separating Germany and Poland are torn down by German soldiers.

Berkeley, California: May, 1969 African American women confront black National Guardsmen called in by Ronald Reagon to quell the People's Park protests.

10/31/1936. Republican Soldiers on the road in the Guadalajara sector.

DN-SN-85-02057. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

07/31/1936. Young Militias Picking Up Rifles to March to the Front.

Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing American infantry and tanks on the road to Saint-Lo.

British members of the Volunteer Corps emerge from behind a barricade. March 7, 1938.

Vietnam: March, 1962 South Vietnamese paratroopers aboard a U.S. Army Piasecki H-21 Shawnee helicopter provided by U.S. Army advisors.

Parachute Men Home From Singapore -- Twelve of the parachute men on arrival at Southampton. They are left to right: Privated Bill Allsop of Chesterfield, Joe Houghton of Preston, S. Robinson of Woodbridge, Fred Bambleston of Chatham, Art Kelly of Manchester, S. Clack of London, G. Wilson, A. Farley, T. Martin, D. Rosser of South Wales, C. Smyth of Dublin, and Harry Hollis of Liverpool.Fifteen members of the 13th parachute battalion - 263 of whose men figured in the Klunga court-martial on a mutiny charge - arrived at Southampton from Singapore in the Troopship Otranto today Nov. 14. November 14, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

American Negro troops in wartime Australia.The war also brought thousands American soldiers to Sydney below(left). At left, coloured G.I.'s. April 1, 1942.

Axis Prisoners Captured in Tunisia These German and Italian prisoners were captured during the successful American counter-attack at Kasserine Pass, Tunisia. They are being marched to the rear by Allied soldiers. January 1, 1943. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

Communist China's Forces -- Infantryman with automatic submachinegun posing against flag. August 02, 1954. (Photo by Camera Press).

Army personnel & armed police deployed at Beharampada Bandra to prevent rioting after religious fundamentalists demolished the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on 6/12/ 1992 ; The rioting continued till Jan1993 in Bombay Mumbai ;Maharashtra ;india

A United Nations soldier (left) guards Communist prisoners-of-war of a UN prison enclosure in the Republic of Korea. Nearly 140,000 North Koreans and Chinese Communists have been captured by United Nations forces since the Republic of Korea was invaded by the Communists in June 1950, and are being held in strict accordance with terms of the Geneva convention. December 05, 1953. (Photo by United States Information Service).

Members of the Home Guard on their way to a field in the grounds of Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London, where lectures and demonstrations are given by experts during an intensive training course for local defense volunteers. Date: August 1940

Duchess Of Kent Decorates Lifeboat Heroes -- Four of the heroes who were decorated - left to right: Coxswain Edward Kavanagh, of Wicklow, Ireland: Second Coxswain William S. Jones, of New Brighton, Cheshire: Coxswain Patrick Power, of Dunmore East, Cty. Waterford, Ireland: and Second Coxswain Richard Power, also of Dunmore East. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presented decorations to members of Britain's Lifeboat Service at the annual meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in London. The men came from all parts of the British Isles. March 14, 1951. (Photo by Sports & General Press Agency Limited).

Kombat is a black-and-white photograph by the Soviet photographer Max Alpert. It depicts a Soviet military officer armed with a TT pistol who is raising his unit for an attack during World War II. This work is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. the photograph depicts junior politruk Aleksei Yeryomenko, minutes before his death on 12 July 1942, in Voroshilovgrad Oblast, Ukraine.

Italy Celebrates The Birth Of Rome. Signor Mussolini (left) matching a rehearsal of the "Paso Romano" the Roman Goosestepping with which he expects to impress the German Dictator. The anniversary of the "Birth Of Rome" was celebrated on Thursday with great ceremony. Mussolini opened the new Via Imperiale, the widest avenue in Rome, which will be used for the first time for Hitler's visit. April 23, 1938. (Photo by Keystone)

05/18/1939. The legion leaving Madrid, bound for their places of origin.

04/25/1921. Spain's action in Morocco. 2.- General Berenguer (X) with Colonel Castro and the four Principal Chiefs of Gomara.

05/24/1939. The Forces of Tenerife, housed in the María Cristina barracks, in Madrid, are presented, by the traditionalist Spanish phalanx and the Jons, with a farewell meal. The painted commander talks to his Soldiers during Meal.

The brave ***** women who will fight during the war with Italy. They are (L to R) ***** Evoumedarre; Moulatevorks and Alede, all land owing class. October 20, 1935. (Photo by Keystone).

French territorial army soldiers playing the ancient, national instruments of the Breton race - the 'Biniou', a species of flute, and the 'Bombarde', a form of bag-pipes. Date: July 31st 1915

Military Search Reveals Arms Cache In Palestine - The Cache of arms at CID police headquarters at Jerusalem. Find consisted of 7 light machine guns, 19 assorted pistols, 1 completely equipped 2" morter six rifle grenedex discharge cups, 9 kilograms of high explosive 10,000 rounds of assorted ammunition, etc. These pictures, just received in London by air mail, show scene during the search of the Jewish Colony by the Dead Sea in Palestine. Police and British soldiers carried out an extensive search at the works of the Palestine Potash Company where between 400 to 500 Jews are employed. A cache of arms as found in the area, and the Company Superintendent was later arrested. June 26, 1946. (Photo by British Combine Photo).

The British Reoccupation of Malaya A Japanese officer from the 7 Area Army Headquarters lays his sword beside those of his fellow officers at an official ceremony of surrender presided over by Major General C G G Nicholson CB, CBE, DSO, MC, of the British 2nd Division, at Johore Bahru, Malaya. In all 37 Japanese officers, mostly from the 7 Area Army Headquarters, handed over their swords.

Asia. Yemen. Aden. Crater. English Soldier. 1967

Photograph showing a unit of the British First Airborne Division in a glider on the way to Arnhem, September 1944. On 17th September 1944 Operation 'Market Garden' was put into action; a bold plan devised by Field-Marshal Montgomery to drop thousands of airborne troops into Holland to capture an invasion route into Germany. The British First Airborne, American 81st and 101st Divisions took part in the plan, which was ultimately unsuccessful. Date: 1944

Black and white photograph of the Battle of France, May-June 1940; Adolf Hitler enters Paris

German prisoners, among the 90,000 taken by the Soviets at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943.

Act of the swearing of the flag of the Red Cross, which was recovered in 1942, after having been held for the last time in 1910.

Adolf Hitler (* 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn) ( 30 April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor from 1933, also self-appointed "Fuehrer" and head of state of Germany

Aust troops going to Korea. October 5, 1950. (Photo by Bernadette Hudson/Fairfax Media).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC First train ride from Bandoeng to Garoet. Boggerkorp 7 December Division. April 19, 1948. Garut, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Russian soldiers celebrating good news from the front with dance and music. Date: P

The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, Anti-French War, Franco-Vietnamese War, Franco-Vietminh War, Indochina War, Dirty War in France, and Anti-French Resistance War in contemporary Vietnam) was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Emperor Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp. Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina protectorates of Laos and Cambodia. The war ended following the decisive French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Brownshirt Nazi members march 1932-35

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS (né Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 - 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India (1947-48), from which the modern Republic of India would emerge in 1950. From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier. In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who planted a bomb in his fishing boat, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the decline of the British Empire in the mid to late 20th century.

The anniversary of the last victory over the Ottoman army in 1715 is celebrated yearly in the beginning of August by Sinjska alka, an equestrian competition in which ceremonially dressed horsemen try to hit a small ring (alka) with their lance while galloping. Date: circa 1930s

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

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Soebang and surroundings. KNIL soldiers (during a purification campaign). The man front left drinks from a bamboo tube?. December 1, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Withdrawal of Dutch troops from Solo, Gondang Winangoe and clares. A department of TNI soldiers in runs through an empty street. November 12, 1949. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

truppe a cavallo passano l'isonzo. la pregevole istantanea � del documentarista cinematografico e fotoreporter luca comerio. 1915

Anefo photo collection. The Four Days Marches 1969. Danish female land power soldiers with helmets. July 17, 1969. Gelderland, Nijmegen

Mr. T.A. Field (Back to Camera at right) talking meet his manager after meeting the ***** on Gordon brook station. February 01, 1933.

Photograph of Marines Aboard a Coast Guard-manned Landing Craft. "Paradise Lost" By Japs at Kwajalein. Palm-studded Carlos Island, a South Pacific paradise in the Marshalls, falls to American invasion forces driving ashore in Coast Guard-manned landing craft. Expressions on the faces of these seasoned Marines indicate calm assurance of a successful conquest.

Madrid, 05/19/1939. Victory Parade after the end of the Civil War. In the image, the "bersaglieris".

War Work Description: "H.M. King George VI inspecting workers" Date: 1939-45 king, overalls, homefront, secondworldwar, georgevi, blackbritons

Bedouin Dance In Kuwait - Dance begins, and sabres carve the air as the drums begin to sound. April 12, 1949. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

89C - Loading Bombs And Ammunition - Bombing Crew At Work, Gunners Etc. May 8, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).

The Eighth Army Landings In Italy -- All smiles - The first Italian Prisoners.Picture taken on the first day of the 8th Army's ***** of Italy (3.9.43). One week later Italy had surrendered, the whole of the toe of Italy was in the 8th Army's hands, and new landings had been made to carry the offensive against the German forces further North. September 13, 1943. (Photo by Topical Press).

Photograph of Indian Colonial Troops arriving to a warm welcome in Flanders, Belgium. Dated 1915

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Farewell to Colonel Baas Becking. Farewelled by the Compagnie 2-1-8 R.I. from Colonel Prof. L.M.G. Boss Becking, leader of the Mobile teams of the Dutch-Indian Red Cross, in his house in Molenvliet. The Compagnie poses together with Mrs. Baas Becking. November 20, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

The Khmer Rouge Leadership at Pochentong Airport c. 1976. Left to right: Unknown, Khieu Ponnary, Nuon Chea, Vorn Vet, Ieng Sary (partly obscured), Pol Pot, Yun Yat (partly obscured), Ieng Thirith. The Khmer Rouge, or Communist Party of Kampuchea, ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan. It is remembered primarily for its brutality and policy of social engineering which resulted in millions of deaths. Its attempts at agricultural reform led to widespread famine, while its insistence on absolute self-sufficiency, even in the supply of medicine, led to the deaths of thousands from treatable diseases (such as malaria). Brutal and arbitrary executions and torture carried out by its cadres against perceived subversive elements, or during purges of its own ranks between 1976 and 1978, are considered to have constituted a genocide. Several former Khmer Rouge cadres are currently on trial for war crimes in Phnom Penh.

08/31/1936. Rosario Sánchez, the Militia who wears the star of Alférez, and who upon entering madrigal de la Vera (Cáceres), fought and killed the Civil Guards; Accompanied by two Comrades who were also fighting in said Front.

Army Weapons On Show... Trainees from the 13th Trg Batt Watching a demonstration of the 3.5 rocket launcher, the shell from the weapon can pierce through 11 in steel..Taken at green hills. June 8, 1955. (Photo by Gordon Herbert Short/Fairfax Media).

They Patrol The Desert -- British source says these Transjordan desert patrol men took part in the parade at Amman Celebrating the 24th anniversary of the Arab Revolt declared by king Hussein. With Lawrence of Arabia, the tribes joined arms with Britain. May 12, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The champion shooting team of the 26th Punjab Regiment of Bengal Infantry, 1896. Artist: T Winter

The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, is a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period, hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000-80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests (also known as the People Power Uprising) were a series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots in the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (today commonly known as Burma or Myanmar). Key events occurred on 8 August 1988, and therefore it is known as the 8888 Uprising.

Holocaust Memorial Day at Yad Vashem Jerusalem

The Amir Yakub Khan, General Daoud Shah, Habeebulah Moustafa, with Major Cavagnari C.S.I. and a Mr Jenkyns. The Treaty of Gandamak officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Afghanistan ceded various frontier areas to Britain to prevent invasion of further areas of the country. It was signed by the emir of Afghanistan, Mohammad Yaqub Khan and Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari representing the British government of India, on 26 May 1879, at a British army camp near the village of Gandamak, about 70 miles east of Kabul, The treaty was ratified by Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Viceroy of India, on 30 May 1879. Most historical writings consider the Treaty of Gandamak as the prelude to the second phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1879-80.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Tamboer Maitre from a British Indian military music corps. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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.

Muslims in Britain- Eid Ul Fitr Celebrations, 1941 Soldiers of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps enjoy a feast following the Eid ul Fitr ceremony at the East London Mosque.

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