Historical Construction and Maintenance

Photos capturing military personnel engaged in construction and maintenance tasks, highlighting their roles in logistical support during conflicts.

Tank Trap. March 17, 1940.
Tank Trap. March 17, 1940.
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09/30/1936. Device demolished by the Republicans in one of the Fronts of the Center sector.
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Anefo photo collection. Wieringermeerpolder. December 10, 1945. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer
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Blood For American Soldiers Injured In Normandy -- Containers of blood, to be used for transfusions for wounded American soldiers, are lined up at an airfield in Normandy after being delivered by a U. S. Amy transport plane. The American truck will carry the blood (marked ETO for the European Theater of Operations) to emergency hospitals at the front. Men and Women of the United States have donated 6,500,000 pints (4,000,000 liters) of blood to the American Red Cross for treating casualties of war. August 21, 1944.
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North Africa Pix - Port of Tunis, Unloading Grain. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Photograph of Shattered Remains of a Japanese Pilot Whose Plane was Brought Down during Pearl Harbor AttackThe USS Arizona (BB39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7 1941.
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Gear from overturned M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), lying on ground. Vehicle and cliff in background. Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)
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Seoul is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of more than 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the developed world. The Seoul Capital Area, which includes the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, is the world's second largest metropolitan area with over 25.6 million people, home to over half of South Koreans along with 632,000 international residents. During the Korean War, Seoul changed hands between the Chinese-backed North Korean forces and the UN-backed South Korean forces several times, leaving the city heavily damaged after the war. One estimate of the extensive damage states that after the war, at least 191,000 buildings, 55,000 houses, and 1,000 factories lay in ruins. In addition, a flood of refugees had entered Seoul during the war, swelling the population of Seoul and its metropolitan area to an estimated 2.5 million, more than half of them homeless.
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Jack Miller , Machetes, Forts & fortifications, Helmets, Miller, Jack, 1924-1948. Jack Miller Collection
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Coal Miners- Everyday Life in a Midlands Colliery, England, UK, 1944 Flight Lieutenant Tilsley (right) visits the coal face and asks miners Ernest 'the Emperor' Brooks (left) and George 'Napoleon' Ward about life as a miner at a colliery, somewhere in the Midlands. According to the original caption: ''It's a man's job' says the Emperor with a grin - he jerks his thumb upwards and says he'd sooner be in the pit than on top on a day like this - there's four inches of snow on the ground at the pit-head.
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Man and Woman looking at Artillery Shells abandoned by German Troops after the First Battle of the Marne, France, Bain News Service, October 1914
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Member of the Women's Land Army driving a horse ritter
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Prisoner in German Slave Labor Camp at time of Liberation by U.S. Army, Nordhausen, Germany, photograph by Roberts for U.S. Army Signal Corps, April 1945
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When S/Sgt. John Flannagan, Left, 1025 Meadowbrook Ave., Los Angeles, California., And Cpl. Frank Gattuso, 905 Sheridon Place, Memphis, Tenn., Right, Began Repair Of This Old Okinawa Rock Wall Near Their 7Th Aaf Fighter Base, They Enlisted This Aged Nativ
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A larger group of children stand nearby as two members of the U.S. Air Force 317th Combat Control Team defend a bunker during exercise Reforger/Autumn Forge 1980. Autumn Forge is a reserve airdrop and associated ground movements taking place both here and in Germany and involving mostly U.S. and British troops and equipment. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER/AUTUMN FORGE 1980 Base: Arnhem State: Gelderland Country: Netherlands / Holland (NLD)
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Anefo photo collection. A bomb from the Second World War has been harmlessly made in the dunes at Velsen. The bomb after dismantling the 2 inflammation. July 16, 1969. Noord-Holland, Velsen
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Directors Of Atomic Bomb See Results -- Gen. Leslie R. Groves (Right) and Dr. J.R. Oppenheimer, who cooperated on Atomic Bomb Development, Get a first Hand look at base of tower from which test bomb was exploded. September 10, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Anefo photo collection. Tobacco bowl of the Dutch-Belgian border (black trade). World War II, trade. August 1945
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Wounded American being lifted onto helicopter at 21st Infantry Regiment collecting station at Painmal, Korea, one mile south of the 38th Parallel, for evacuation to base hospital, U.S. Army Signal Corps, April 3, 1951
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Spraying enlisted men's barracks with DDT at 3rd Platoon, 26th Field Hospital circa 1944.
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Memorial ceremony at the Pusan's honor field. Ereveld Pusan. Flowers ... from Japan. Korea has no ...
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The Hundred Days Offensive, August-november 1918
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Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Negevity, Kibbets Revivim. Two men at work for a tent in the kibbuts. January 1, 1948. Israel, Negev
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Tachen Islands - Taiwan. December 29, 1954.
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Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. forest worker helmet demonstrates functioning motor spectators. undated
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Large purification promotion in the W-Brigade area. Middle Java. Purification campaign in the field of the W-Brigade. 1-11 R.I. Scroll out 2 weeks. By Kali's, about shank bridges and by abandoned Kampongs. For example, the infantryman shows what he is worth. A shaky bamboo bridge over a bustling waterfall. March 15, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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Africa. Kenya. Indigenous Hunting With Bow And Arrow. 1930
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Quality control during the production of ammunition in a French factory, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 10, March 5, 1916.
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The Camargue - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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First Picture Of British 7. 2. Howitzers: Officers checking miscellaneous shells stacked in one of the bays of an underground quarry. 7.2 shells in the foreground. First picture just released (Sept. 30th. 194.) of the 7.2. Howitzer. The gun weight 10 tons and fires a 200 1b. shell. It is mounted on a twin wheel carriage fitted with pneumatic typres. It has hand controlled brakes. but when the gun is fired, even with its brakes on, the recoil is so heavy that the wheels run up the steel ramps designed to take the shock. January 22, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Dressed in full protective gear soldiers from the 71st Chemical Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (Light), pass through a decontamination station near the conclusion of an exercise designed to test the unit's ability to detect and mitigate a chemical leak. Base: US Army Chemical Activity Country: Johnston Atoll
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A fishermen of the Lofoten Islands, Norway, hanging fish out to dry on long poles, where they remain for two months, before being packaged for export. The islands featured in a spread in The Illustrated London News in March 1941, following a successful raid by British naval and military forces on German objectives in this area during World War Two. Date: 1941
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Poll photo collection. Soldier waiting. undated
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Demonstration By Royal Engineers -- "Rob" with his handler walks over the "mine-field". The broad white tape is laid out and denotes a safety path for following troops.Officers from the Staff College at Camberley and many foreign attaches watched a demonstration given by men of the Royal Engineers at Hawley, Hampshire. A feature of the demonstration was the use of dogs in detecting a mine-field.The dogs are trained to sit down immediately they detect a mine: a Sapper following closely then places a marker on the spot and the mine is then safely removed. May 31, 1950. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited.).
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Vietnam/China: Chinese PLA soldier captured by Vietnamese militiaman, Third Indochina War, 1979
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Shoshone fighters attacking U.S. Cavalry, on-set of the western film, "Kit Carson", United Artists, 1940
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Wire of Death. Barbed wire barrier on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium during the First World War near Sluis in Zeeland. The Wires of Death at Sluis in Zeeland. 1915.
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Men of the Leicestershire Regiment man a Bren gun near Tobruk, 10 November 1941
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Men Of The 443Rd Signal Construction Battalion Use A Pulley To Hoist A Communications Cable To The Top Of A Pole Where They Will Fasten It. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.
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AKIRA KUROSAWA and TAKASHI SHIMURA in THE SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) -Original title: SHICHININ NO SAMURAI-, directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.
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Vintage photograph. Two mountain climbers sitting going through their gear
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Historic photograph, sanatorium, around 1920
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Reconstruction of Aunay-Sur-Odon, France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The Western front. Near Messines. British Tommy bringing up shells to the guns. He is wearing a Boche helmet. 1914-1918}. België, Mesen
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Anefo photo collection. Recovery: Atlantikwal. Series: The demolition of the Atlantikwal. Between Zandvoort and IJmuiden people are cleaned up the Atlantikwal. Cannons are dismantled, bunkers are blown up and mines cleared .. June 1945. IJmuiden, Zandvoort
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Coast Guardsmen Decontaminate. This image depicts a Coast Guard decontamination squad going to work scrubbing down the decks that may have soaked into the seams of the wood.
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Anefo photo collection. Pontonniers demonstration with Colonel Schafroth. April 7, 1948
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12/31/1914. Sadness of War. What was a battlefield and is today a cemetery in one of the Invaded French Departments.
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Emergency Mass Feeding, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1954 , Civil defense, Fire. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Opening golf links exceeding care. Exceeding: Here the golf links were opened again. The first battle was done by the newly-appointed mayor Mas Wisaksono Wirjodihardjo .. August 6, 1947. Bogor, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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Audie Murphy (on knees, center), on-set of the western film, "The Guns Of Fort Petticoat", Columbia Pictures, 1957
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Aunay-Sur-Odon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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01/31/1918. The Allies in Italy. French Alpine soldier on water service in a square in Solferino - Approximate date.
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Welfare photos of Operation Cue Atomic Explosion , Protective clothing, Nuclear weapons testing, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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Belgium: November 16, 1917 Two British women who are serving directly behind British trenches and taking care of the wounded soldiers.
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Fourth bag during the hunt of the 4. A. K. Near Wladimir Wolinsky, possibly near Ustilug, Russia, Volhynia; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 4.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)