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Captures of soldiers engaging in various military tasks from trench preparation to intelligence gathering during World War II. Vintage photography style depicting teamwork and resilience.

Approx. 1939,1941, training Wehrmacht, soldiers prepare food, Ulm, Germany, Europe

Europe: Ocotober 9, 1918 British Tommies erecting a canvas watering trough for the use of the cavalry. Water services to the front were critical, and the water provided had to be chemically treated and filtered the same as a municipal waterworks.

Anefo photo collection. The Westland. May 27, 1946

Anefo photo collection. Series about the Limburg families Smedts and Poels from Horst who shot about 300 Allied pilots during the Second World War (above the Netherlands) in the farm "the black paste" helped to bring over border to Belgium. Second World War, illegality. 1945

German POWs help bring wounded Canadian soldiers from the Vim Ridge battlefield in April 1917. The military engagement was part of the Battle of Arras

Launching of Sub-Chaser P-5. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) during a three day visit to the British front in September, 1916. The Prime Minister is pictured examining German ammunition captured by the British army. 1916

Richmond, Virginia. Confederate cannon. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Anefo photo collection. Disaster at Liège, excavation work to remove the embers. February 4, 1961. Liège

Water hole. November 7, 1950.;Water hole.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage Kebon Selada and Kota Batoe (2nd and 3rd Cion of 4-10 R.I. and 3 grid). Sinterklaas arrives on horseback. December 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Turkey series. October 15, 1948

Motif from Sjangeli copper grapes.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Irene Brigade. Dutch soldiers training. "Dutch Forces Invasion Exercises". Amphibious landing exercises. Nets laid vehicles grip land. February 1944. Britain

Anefo photo collection. Wieringermeerpolder. December 8, 1945. Noord-Holland, Wieringermeer

Camp of 153d New York Infantry. No. B331, Title from item, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Westkapelle. Two farmers with a douch. 1945. Westkapelle, Zeeland

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. forest worker helmet demonstrates functioning motor spectators. undated

Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. A military exercise. A river must be crossed. A pontoon bridge is laid. 1945

Allies In Flying Bomb country-Many VI Sites Captured: A flying bomb assembly a farm building. Site found at Genevieve , South of Dieppe. Allied troops are now in the flying bomb, country and many sites have fallen into their hands. Although the Germans stripped most of the equipment from their sites before they left, launching platforms and storage depots were found almost intact although in many cases damaged by allied bombs. The sites are found to be surrounded by an elaborate pattern of natural camouflage. September 5, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reportage Dajeuhkolot (Bandoeng sector). Patrol military police. Hut in Kampong is checked. February 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

With The Australians In Korea -- Washing day finds two members of the Machine Gun Platoon, First Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, melting snow to do their washing. Pte Keith McGregor, of Echuca, Vic, helps the snow to melt by stirring it. January 2, 1953. (Photo by Australian Army Photo).

German Prisoners of War in Britain- Everyday Life at a German Pow Camp, UK, 1945 German Prisoners of War pick swedes in a field near their PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. Two horses can also be seen in the field.

Königsbrück. Machine Gun Compagon

Poll photo collection. Travel to Lithuania. A suspect must show his papers. 1934. Lithuania, Poland

Development of French Sudan Bamaku to Timbuctu. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Klagenfurt, Equestrian Clinic 102 Operation on a horse. Photographer: 10. Armeekommando.

A grenade-throwing contest in regimental sports at Chatham in Kent, 1915. Date: October 9th 1915

Anefo photo collection. Visit councilors from Amsterdam to Schouwen Duiveland. January 22, 1954. Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Venlo. Food provision in Venlo after the liberation. March 1945. Limburg, Venlo

10/31/1921. Melilla. In the Atlaten position. General Cavalcanti (X), Communicating Orders from a Telephone Station Organized by the Engineers.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Forestry, forest fire, forest fire brigade. undated. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Maggie the monkey and a kitten, regimental pet mascots of the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders playing outdoors.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Modjokerto. Indonesians and cattle pass through a destroyed bridge or inlet. March 1947. Indonesia, Java, Mojokerto, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Schoolchildren lay flowers on graves of the honorary cemetery in Overveen. May 4, 1965. Overveen

Peasant front-line villages mobilized to dig trenches.

Anefo photo collection. Border correction Elten (at Lobith). Marechaussee inside household goods. April 23, 1949. Elten

U.S. Marine with 'Situation Well in Hand' Iceland - This U.S. marine at work on a Nissen hut seems to have the situation well in hand as he applies the finishing touches. Official U.S. Navy Photo released yesterday in Washington shows scene in camp near Reykjavik, in American defended Iceland. October 17, 1941. (Photo by ACME).

Square potatoes on the gulus field

The British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Soldiers of 'A' Company, 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in the trenches at Houplines during December 1914.

Refugees from Finland arrive in Haparanda in the fall of 1944.

Petersburg, Virginia. Fort Sedgwick. Gabions heightened by sand bags. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

On The British Western Front In France - British Tommies wading their way through the mud at the Front. March 28, 1918. (Photo by British Official).

Anefo photo collection. Exercises La Courtine, chefs in field kitchen in camp. July 8, 1959

The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916

The Royal Navy 1899 - 1902 Distributing presents of clothing to the sailors of HMS FORTE.

Fort McPherson, Georgia: June 25, 1918 Soldiers suffering from shell shock take up gardening to help them recover from the injury.

Dutch Gap, Virginia. Picket station of Colored troops near Dutch Gap canal. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Anefo photo collection. Jamboree 1963 in Marathon Greece. Japanese boy scouts in their camp. August 12, 1963. Greece

Anefo photo collection. Two crashed f-16 jet hunters of the Dutch Air Force at Hoogeveen. Spectacles at the rocket. April 27, 1983. Drenthe, Hoogeveen

Germany Under Allied Occupation An officer from a Royal Air Force Disarmament Wing check propellors removed from German aircraft at Flensburg airfield.

Norway Norge

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action Regiment 3 Princess Irene Brigade / Colonel Servais Belgian military mission A / D Wijnkoopsbaai. Sukaboemi Sector group portrait soldiers. October 29, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

8cm grenade, placing ekrasite cartridges for explosive.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women road sweepers in the employ of the Borough of Ealing.

Austrian soldiers and Italian civilians working together in Veneto Photographer: Kriegsvermessung 5.

Police dogs on south star.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection A farm girl in charge of a herd of cattle.

Anefo photo collection. Demobilization camp "Boskamp" Amersfoort. January 13, 1950. Amersfoort

Second World War. For billeting. Soviet Union. Group of relatives of the German Wehrmacht in front of a farmhut

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Return to Fort van der Capellen and Fort De Kock (Anei-gorge). Through Republican Armed Forces Beatened trees on the way to Fort van der Capellen (Sumatra) are cleaned up by Dutch pioneers. December 29, 1948. Batusangkar, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Anefo photo collection. 8-hour jeep ride for soldiers Tilburg. December 11, 1953. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Medical specialists of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing set up a tent for a mobile hospital during a training exercise. Base: Raf Lakenheath State: East Anglia Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

River battery. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

The Allied Reoccupation of French Indo-china Japanese prisoners of war construct their own living quarters at a camp at Cape Saint Jacques, which housed up to 38,500 prisoners.

Graves of native boys, members of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, at Bomana War Cemeter, 12 miles from Moresby. S/Sgt A. Gibbs, of Heyfield, Vic., is tidying round the graves. July 10, 1944.

Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939 Group of grape pickers (showing Supernumerary Police) 1939, Israel, Richon le-Tsiyon

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action Pentjak Puncak and surroundings. Patrol gang through a kali. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Puncak

Italy, Basilicata, metaponto, at the necropolis, 1910-20.

Anefo photo collection. REPORTAGE MOD. September 24, 1947

Finnish refugees in Haparanda, autumn 1944.

Anefo photo collection. Navy Navy Anefo London series. Sailors lay pontoon river. {1940-1942}. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Attaching bomb to German Aeroplane

US Troops in An English Village- Everyday Life With the Americans in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England, UK, 1944 On a beach near their camp at Burton Bradstock (possibly Burton Beach or Burton Freshwater), American troops visit the barber in the early evening sunshine. Amateur barber T/5 John G Artie (of Edison Avenue, Menlo Park, New Jersey) clips the hair of T/5 John B Rada (of 103 Stone Avenue, Greenville, South Indiana), who is sitting on a rock, in lieu of a barber's chair. Waiting their turn are: T/4 George Keister (of Fort Wayne, Indiana), T/5 H R Sullivan (of Hodges, Alabama), Pfc Herbert A Eberhardy (of Marshfield, Wisconsin), Private Stanley T Miller (of Axtel, Kentucky), T/5 G R Miller (of 4106 Vermont Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky), Pfc James Crane (of Harding, Missouri) and Pfc W W Johnson (of Bluefield, West Virginia).

Anefo photo collection. Landmines clear at Hoek van Holland. Series of land mines at Hoek van Holland German prisoner of war on stilts. August 1945. Hoek van Holland

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.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Member of the Women's Land Army thistle hoeing.

Anefo photo collection. Fire in the Osdorper Schools Community in Amsterdam New West. Extinguish through the fire brigade. April 1, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

The Foreign Legion In Indo-China - Foreign Legion Infantrymen advance across flooded rice field in Cochin-China during the interminable war against communist-Led rebel force of Vietminh. December 03, 1950. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Soldiers digging trenches in France. First World War.

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.

Pilots and navigators are shown leaving their hut going to their planes which will leave soon to bomb the Japaneses. The days are always misty and gray for the most part, and the men never know when the ceiling will left sufficiently to allow the planes

Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. A military exercise. Men cross the river. 1945

2d Rhode Island Infantry. No. 1044, Title from item, Mounted with five other photographs, Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. United States, Army, Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865) , Soldiers, Union, 1860-1870, Drums, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, Union.

Venetian Washers War Measurement 5.

The Snow Patrol -- These three members of an American Patrol use bedsheets for camouflage as they move through the snow-covered fields of Luxembourg. left to right: Sgt. James Storey, Newman, GA.; Pvt. Frank A. Fox, Wilmington, Del., and Cpl. Dennis Lavanoha, Harrisville, N. Y. January 8, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Italy. food supply. 1915-18.

French soldiers siezing the opportunity of indulging in an al fresco wash in a village in Flanders in 1915. Date: 1915

Anefo photo collection. National police addressed children who raise war vaccinations from the battlefields in southern Netherlands, which they had to deliver and warns of the dangers. 24 December 1945. Southern Netherlands

British soldiers in 1919 excavating dead WWI soldiers fallen on the Western Front battlefield during the First World War One

The Royal Navy during the Second World War- the Campaign in Normandy, June 1944 Royal Marines ensure a quick turn around for supply craft to Normandy at Southampton. A special party of Royal Marines stand ready to make quick repairs to the hards should any of the invasion ships damage these prepared loading-runways. Here a Marine repair party is removing broken concrete slabs from the loading hard.

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Colonel McBean and W. E. Gordon in conversation.

Middlesex men on iced up Paddy fields - Pakchon area. Cold weather conditions did not seen to worry these men. They cut hole in see "just to see how think it was". December 04, 1950.

Visit of the teaching object of the training and vesuchsanstalt of the Mobile Schanzeugzeugdepoten No.7 by the Army Commander tube.

Evacuation of Finnish refugees, autumn 1944.

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.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Pankelan at Krawrang. Report to Pankelan. Isolated outpost of 1-4-8-regiment infantry. Dutch soldier is moved by carriers over a river. March 12, 1948. Indonesia, Krawang, Dutch East Indies

The Malta links have nine holes and surround the fortifications. Date: 11th April 1903

The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 British troops looking for something in mud.

06/30/1913. The terrible catastrophe of Irun. First Aid. The Infantry Captain, Mr. Asuero, who was seriously injured, and the doctor from Rentería, Mr. Luis Zurriaran, who suffered the amputation of both legs, were taken to the place where they were to receive medical assistance.

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