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Historical Indonesian Gatherings

Black and white photographs capturing crowds and communities in Indonesia during the late 1940s, featuring local interactions and cultural events.

Dutch East Indies. January 1, 1945.
Dutch East Indies. January 1, 1945.
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Decapitated heads scattered on the ground, after the execution of prisoners at Canton prison, China. By Benjamin West Kilburn, 1827-1909, photographer c1901.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Departure from Mrs Overakker. On October 28, Plancius steamship left from the port of Belawan, Mrs. S. Overakker-Beer, the widow of General-Major Overakker, who was a military commander there during Japanese raid on Sumatra's east coast. At the farewell, many military authorities were present including General Major P. Scholten, territorial also troop commander of North Sumatra. The departing was very popular among soldiers, mainly because of the many work that they carried out as a director of the AMVJ in Medan. October 28, 1948. Belawan, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC The Kroja intermediate station during the evacuation of TNI troops. Evacuation of Republican troops from the area occupied by the Dutch army. Soldiers from the first Republican division, from the area south of Banjar, on transit to Republican area, upon arrival at the KROJ intermediate station. February 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Weh
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A Sioux war party, circa 1890
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit Minister Romme to Grote Oost Makassar, Menado, Ambon, Flores, Surabaya. Makassar. Dr. C.P.M. Romme in a light suit, during a view from Fort Rotterdam. January 24, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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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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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Surabaya. European man with tropical helmet shakes the hand of one of the village heads?. In the middle Indonesian man in uniform. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Pasar Malam Ambarawa; sports competitions; Lieutenant Colonel Brummer from 2-7 R.I. Gets a flag. Acrobaten. April 20, 1948. Ambarawa, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Pladjoe-West Palembang; 8th field artillery department. Half eleven, coffee time for the boys from Staff 8th department. Art. The coffee is good and the canteen boss counts only a dime .. November 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Plaju, Sumatra
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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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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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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. A Dutch soldier at a Toko. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Crew of practice malfess 5 Passage in La Guaira, Venezuela, February 1957.
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Marine detatchment that ran up the first American flag in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Cavite, May 3, 1898
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Italian soldiers with the Sultan of Migiurtini in Northern Somalia, 1910, Somalia, photo by Angelo Ghirelli, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVII, No 8, February 20, 1910.
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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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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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Samurai is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai followed a set of rules that came to be known as Bushidō. While they numbered less than ten percent of Japan's population, samurai teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in martial arts such as Kendō, meaning the way of the sword.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Borneo (1947 February). The rower of a praug. February 1947. Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies
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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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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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07/31/1914. Towards the German border. A carriage of Algerian Shooters at the Champigny station, where they were presented with Champagne, on their way to the Border, by a lady of the Red Cross.
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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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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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Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a
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Cpl. Keith Land 30 yrs of Norwood Adelaide, Natuko 30 yrs, Baby Arthur Ronald 3 months will live in Adelaide. February 06, 1953.
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Korean War. Wounded American POW's in North Korea.
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Indian crew as strathaird. October 24, 1949.
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The important Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between the Việt Minh (led by General Vo Nguyen Giap), and the French Union (led by General Henri Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 5: 30PM on March 13 to 5: 30PM on May 7, 1954. The southern outpost or fire base of the camp, Isabelle, did not follow the cease-fire order and fought until the next day at 01: 00AM; a few hours before the long-scheduled Geneva Meeting's Indochina conference involving the United States, the United Kingdom, the French Union and the Soviet Union. The battle was significant beyond the valleys of Dien Bien Phu. Giap's victory ended major French involvement in Indochina and led to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South. Eventually, these conditions inspired the United States to increase their involvement in Vietnam leading to the Second Indochina War. The battle of Điện Biên Phủ is described by historians as the first tim
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. A Dutch soldier plays accordion. Village population listen .. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Red Cross tour over Tjisadane to Tangerang. Tangerang. Due to a lack of medication and skilled medical forces, the health of the Indonesian population has seriously undermined during the Japanese occupation and the subsequent Republican rule. Mobile teams from the Ned. Red Cross are working in the liberated areas with man and power to cope with this serious health crisis. Treatment of a very common tropical ers .. September 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Tangerang
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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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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Portrait photos (miscellaneous) passport photos. Indonesian man in uniform. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Anefo photo collection. Mn Merchant Navy / Anefo London series. Caption "" Look Defiance "Indonesian Merchant Sailor" Indonesian crew Dutch merchant ship. 10, 1943. Britain
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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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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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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.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Five members of the S.P. 88 are convicted of train accident in Tjikempek. Due to the special warrior of the 2nd Infantry Brigade Group in Poerwakarta, matters were treated at the main guilty of the attack on the Bandoeng-Batavia railroad track. At Tjikempek, they shot the train when it was derailed, so that five people were killed and had a large number of injuries to regray. All these suspects were members of the terrorbende S.P. 88 which aims to commit, committing sabotage and terrorists and disturbing peace and order in the areas secured by Dutch people. Solechtri bin tanoo. One of the main accomplices. He got twenty years. September 27, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Portrait of an Indonesian young man in uniform. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Lebanese civilians observe the landing operations of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit as they participate in a multinational peacekeeping operation. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Horse depot in Bandoeng. Foorsmith. December 1948. Bandoeng, Bandung, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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New Zealand soldiers cleaning a truck, as Italian women wash linen, near Alife, Italy, January 1944
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC The T-Brigade in Djokja. Caught officials of the Republic are drawn up for a building. December 19, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Yogyakarta
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The Anglo-Manipur war (1891) saw the conquest of Manipur by British Indian forces and the incorporation of the small Assamese kingdom within the British Raj. Subsequently Manipur became a Princely State under British tutelage.
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On 6 August and 9 August, 1945, the USA dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki respectively. More than 200,000 people died as a direct result of these two bombings, during which the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan. Japan surrendered on 15 August, 1945 and a formal Instrument of Surrender was signed on 2 September, 1945, on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The surrender was accepted by Gen Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Allied Commander, with representatives of each Allied nation, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu. A separate surrender ceremony between Japan and China was held in Nanking on 9 September, 1945. Following this period, MacArthur established bases in Japan to oversee the postwar development of the country. This period in Japanese history is known as the Occupation. US President Harry Truman officially proclaimed an end of hostilities on 31 December, 1946. After a period of US occupation (1945-1952), Japan regained its indepe
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Ms. Vasquez, a student at the Air Force Officer Candidate School, takes pictures during the ceremony aboard the USS ARIZONA Memorial commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Base: Pearl Harbor State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC prisoner of war prisoner of British Indians and Japs. Medan. One of the Indian deserturs captured on North Sumatra: Surajpal Singh from the 15th Indian Corps. August 1, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra
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DN-ST-85-08481. Base: Banjul Country: Gambia (GMB)
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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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Between raids these little Maltese boys and girls enjoy childish childish games amidst the ruins that once was their home. Typical Maltese courage is born in them. They have no fear of merciless Axis dive bombers, but in later life they will not forget. February 22, 1943. (Photo by Department Of Air).
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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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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC 7 Prisoners of war. Poeduhoe pager. March 8, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Spahis Serve Under Two Flags -- A Spahi raises his ***** standard in salute to the two flags.Spahis, dread desert troops of Pranot, are now serving with the Free French Force. At a recent ***** The Free French ***** with two flags, the new flag of Free France, and the Union Jack. October 08, 1940. (Photo by Keystone).
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Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Hindu man in Malacca. 1946. Malacca, Malaysia
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Villagers greet Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team members with a traditional welcome parade during a Papau New Guinea Independence Day celebration at Banak Village, Papua New Guinea, Sep. 16, 2022. The village of Banak put together a celebration in memorial of 1st. Lt. Gabriel J. Eggud, whose remains were found and then accounted for on a recovery mission in 2019. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Staff army commander and recording general track and Mrs. Spoor DJK. An Indonesian young woman. March 1948. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit Colonel Julian to Indonesia. Djokjakarta: Col. Julian says goodbye to the old regent k.r.t. Djogonegoro .. January 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Mechanic school of the air forces in the downstairs of Batavia. The name is painted on the facade. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a former high school which was converted into an infamous Security Prison. It is also known as S-21 and was a concentration camp during the Khmer Rouge.
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Anefo photo collection. Camp of Angolan liberation movement Fnla in Zaire, two Portuguese caught in camp. August 22, 1973. Zaire
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Sudanese African soldier, during World War II, 1940.
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Panama, Kuna Yala, Ustupu, Civil policemen and flag of Revolution Guna