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Black and white images depicting historical military personnel engaged in various tasks, including aviation maintenance and Coast Guard ceremonies, conveying a solemn and industrious atmosphere.

Coast Guard Mercy Plane Flies Four Navy Men from Sea to Hospital. This image depicts Navy Ensign Ernest C. McDonald on a Coast Guard rescue plane piloted by Coast Guard Commander Donald B. MacDiarmid and Ensign Peter Nooteboom.

Edith Nourse Rogers shaking hands , Military officers, Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Damaged German soldiers aboard trains in Hallsberg during World War II.

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0465. 1956

Opening of augmented water source in Jaamri Country at Ain Hamda, S.E. of Bethlehem, British constables around common tray of rice & mutton. 1940, West Bank, Israel

Civilian Conservation Corps - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

"Adlerauge" bei der Messung - Measuring done by the Eagle Eye.Eva Braun's Photo Albums, ca. 1913 - ca. 1944. These albums are attributed to Eva Braun (four are claimed by her friend Herta Schneider, nee Ostermeyer) and document her life from ca. 1913 to 1944. There are many photographs of Eva, her sisters and their children, Herta Schneider and her children, as well as photographs of Eva's vacations, family members and friends. Included also are photographs taken by and of Eva Braun at Hitler's chalet Berghof (or Kehlstein), photographs of Hitler and his entourage, visitors to Berghof and the scenery around Berchtesgaden, and some studio portraits of Eva and members of her family.

Wehrmacht soldier with two Dutch women. Two Dutch woman posing with a German soldier in a room. The left woman is half on a table, the military points out something, the second woman sits at the table with papers. Right of it: bei frie.

Soldier in garage. A soldier, probably Wehrmacht, is to swap a band. He smokes a cigarette. Right of it: ....... (Holland) Beim Reifen Ab ......

Photograph of an inspection of a 'Glass' house of the Over stand bomber. The glass house is located at the nose of the of the plane. Dated 1939

Coast Guard Inspector Checks Oil Dock for Fire Hazard. This image depicts a Coast Guardsman inspecting an oil dock for fire hazards in Philadelphia.

The commander of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring, lands shortly after Dutch capitulation with a JUKERS JU-52 at the Waalhaven airport for staff talks in the Netherlands.

Photograph of Military Individuals Resting on Tank.

01/01/1938. The Government delegate, on the Lozoya channels, Mr. Torres Campaña, talking with Benedicto Iglesias, who is distinguishing himself in the arrest of spies on the mountain front.

Francesco De Pinedo at the final preparations before the start of the Atlantic air show, Elmas, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, February 13, 1926, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LIV, No 9, February 27, 1927.

A deputy with a gun on his hip during the September 1935 strike in Morgantown, West Virginia. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Collaboration Netherlands .. In the penal camps in Vught, 7000 Dutch collaborators and land crashes are locked up. Soldiers of the Dutch shock troops are charged with the surveillance, especially from the 300 Dutch SS men. Under the direction of the camp commander, the Major L. Mennes, and his helpers, these prisoners are used to purify O.A. the surroundings of Vught van Landmijnen. They are dressed in the blue-white striped prisoners of the former Dutch people captured by the Germans. The prisoners receive the minimum civilian ration, which is also reduced because all delicacies have been taken off. Pending their final trial, they continue the days under a strict regime here. Photo: A soldier of the Dutch shock troops, which had been locked up in Vught during the German occupation, discovers under the locked Dutch S.S. Men a former guard who has made him life. June 1945. Netherlands, Vught

Adel Coast Guard Combat Photographer Pacific Invasion Veteran. Coast Guard Combat Photographer Robert M. Warren, Photographer's Mate Third Class, is shown aboard a Coast Guard-manned LST with Jap rifle picked up during invasion of Leyte. He took part in the assault on Iwo Jima, photographing landings and much of the early action. He also participated in the preliminary operations in the invasion of the Ryukyu chain of islands less than four hundred miles from the Jap homeland. Warren, son of Rev. W. G. Warren, Methodist Minister, Belle Plaine, Iowa, is married to the former Jean Clark, now living at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abner Clark of Clarinda, Iowa. The young photographer's mate formerly managed the United Food Market at Adel, Iowa, and makes his home in Adel.

Funeral services with full military honors at Fort Myer, Virginia, for Rear Admiral Randolph Ridgely, Jr.. Funeral services with full military honors were conducted at Fort Myer, Va., June 18, 1951, for Rear Admiral Randolph Ridgely, Jr., U. S. Coast Guard (retired), who died at the Coast Guard Infirmary, New London, Conn., on June 14. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery. Admiral Ridgely retired October 1, 1935, after more than 40 years' service with both the Coast Guard and the Navy. A native of Augusta, Ga., he served with Admiral George Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay. He is survived by a son, Commander Randolph Ridgely III, USCG, three brothers and a daughter.

Damaged German soldier aboard trains in Hallsberg.

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

A leader of the veterans arrested by the United States government. Date: July 1932

Photograph of Cesar Romero with Fellow Coast Guardsman.

Invasions Cost Blood. An unidentified U.S. soldier wounded in the invasion of Makin is photographed in his bunk aboard a Navy hospital plane by a Coast Guard combat cameraman just before the plane took off from Makin. Wounded men were flown to a hospital base in safer territory. First aid was administered aboard a Coast Guard manned transport.

Just A Brief Note!!!. Vincent Fiasconaro, Seaman, first class, of Paterson, New Jersey, attached to the Coast Guard Training Station at Alameda, California, needed plenty of deck space to read this note from home. The letter, which measured 40 feet in length, was written by the employees of the Paterson Evening News where the Coast Guardsman worked as a linotype operator before entering the service. It took Fiasconaro 45 minutes to read the 'note.'.

Soldier participating in a vocational aid program in 1919. The photo, taken by Reud, captures the soldier engaged in training or rehabilitation activities. This program aimed to assist soldiers in transitioning back to civilian life after World War I. Image number: 111-SC-11784.

War album 103, Figure 31275.

Madrid, 18/01/1972. Students of the Faculty of Medicine guarded by the police, due to the riots of the previous days.

J. Edgar Hoover arriving in St. Paul, Minn. at the tragic end of the Charles S. Ross Kidnap case. After collecting a $50,000 ransom, John Henry Seadlund then killed Ross, as well as his criminal partner, James Atwood Gray. Special FBI agent Earl Connelley (in center) cracked the case, and arrested Seadlund. Jan. 21. 1938.

Lt. Howard H. Dacey and Lt. (jg) James F. Finley.

Cesar Romero, screen star now in the U. S. Coast Guard, gets his first real look at the States after nine months in the South Pacific. There's plenty of reason for that flashing smile as Cesar Romero, screen star now in the U. S. Coast Guard, gets his first real look at the States after nine months in the South Pacific aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport that landed Yank fighting men at Saipan and Tinian. This ship-to-shore cruise aboard the liberty boat was much more comfortable than his last ship-to-shore trip aboard a landing boat at Saipan and Tinian.

American soldiers examine a gas chamber, Dachau concentration camp, Bavaria, Germany, c1945. Artist: Unknown

War Babies...Born To Fight. On November 11, 1918..Armistice was declared..papers were signed..The World War ended.Fighting men laid down their guns..And these two Coast Guardsmen were born!!! On November 11, 1942..America makes victorious headway in World War II..and these two Coast Guardsmen who were born on Armistice Day, 1918 now talk about new victories for America in a sand-bagged gun emplacement. Left to right- Coxswain Victor W. Young of Columbus, Ohio and Seaman Francis W. Hughes of Hartford, Conn. both born November 11, 1918 meet for the first time at an East Coast Coast Guard Station and discover that Hughes middle name is Woodrow, in honor of the late President Woodrow Wilson and that Young was baptized Victory, who drops the Y.."because everyone wants to know why I'm called Victory".

RUNA (Royal Air Force National Union) pilots, April 26, 1937, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.

Photograph of pilots from Condor Legion., during the Spanish civil war

Photograph of Cesar Romero Aboard Coast Guard-manned Transport.

Military transport on the line between Nässjö - Falköping.

Wounded at His Station. Coast Guardsman Milton Eiler, signalman first class, was struck by shrapnel from German bombers while manning a machine gun on the signal bridge of a Coast Guard-manned transport participating in the invasion of Sicily. The Coast Guardsman's home is in Pasadena, Calif. The Coast Guard went into Sicily with the Army.

Madrid. 02/06/1937. The artillerymen who defended the capital of the Republic celebrated the successes of their batteries by singing songs on the parapets.

Women Afloat. Asia-bound flight nurses-- aboard a Coast Guard-manned troop transport heading toward an undisclosed asiatic port, a newly trained group of U.S. Army flight nurses appear hale and happy. They are "sister of mercy" and will fly back with war casualties needing immediate attention in American hospitals. American women are in the war. To overseas duty stations, Army nurses, Red Cross workers, USO entertainers, WACs makes the long sea voyages, many of them aboard Coast Guard-manned transports. Exposed to wartime dangers of the sea, to storms, to discomforts of crowded ships, the women prove "good sailors" on the these passages to Europe and the Far Pacific.

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

Description: Promulgation of Coronation and march past on 3rd June. Location: Tanganyika Date: 03 June africa

Tech Sgt. Paiea Sugnumd, NCOIC mobile distribution, holds a 200-pound hose over his head during the physical portion of the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron Forward Ariel Refueling Point tryouts at Kadena Air Base, Japan, June 17. Though the job is defined as an essential wartime capability, FARP has made its presence in the world as a humanitarian aid as well, especially in support of Operation Tomodachi, where U.S. military assets greatly assisted in the relief efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the island of Honshu, Japan, March 11.

Anti-fascist militias defend Madrid against the attempt to seize power led by General Joaquín Fanjul, commander of the military garrison based in Montaña barracks in Madrid 1936 during the early part of the Spanish Civil War

War prisoners on the train from Trelleborg.

Two injured German soldiers are located in a sleeping compartment aboard a German healthcare train in Hallsberg during the Second World War.

U.S. Army Physical Examination, Rear View, circa 1917

German soldier and a man in citizen at a motorcycle. A German soldier and a man in citizen at a motorcycle with license plate IE-42404. With inscription in red pen: 'Abfahrt Nach ... Nolin'. Photo associated with album 'Kriegservernerungen'.

Bill Wilson, Henry Bowers and Apsley Cherry-Garrard pictured as they set off on their mission to Cape Crozier, part of Scott's South Pole expedition. 1911

Photograph of African-American Naval Officers at Pearl Harbor"Taken by 14th ND. Negro Naval Officers at Pearl Harbor. WO Charles B. Lear, USNR, left, and Ensign Jesse W. Arbor, right, at Manana Naval Barracks, adjacent to the Pearl Harbor Naval Yard.".

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Wound the Netherlands. The Scheveninger Cor de Jager was seriously injured in the first war day of Breda; Only hours later he was found and transported to the St. Ignatius Hospital. After his operation, he remained unconscious for days, but hardly in knowledge or he showed his willingness to be taken to a place close to the hospital where a landmine was found, which yielded great danger to the building. The land mine was laid on the baar at Cor de Jager, and then told the injured how the mine had to be dismantled. His courageous action occurred seriously disaster for the hospital. Other land mines were also dismantled at its instructions. First the light of openness on this brave act now fell as he has never spoken about this. In the garden of the Haagse Hospital, where he is now nursing, Cor de Jager (left), tells a nursing and another nursing his reans. December 4, 1940. The Hague

Between 1970 and 1975 Norodom Sihanouk was nominally head of the Khmer Rouge-dominated Royal Government of National Union of Kampuchea (acronym from the French GRUNK), the opposition to Lon Nol's pro-American Khmer Republic. In 1973 he travelled from Beijing to the Khmer Rouge 'liberated zone' of Cambodia for propaganda purposes.

A Wehrmacht soldier rides a donkey. A Wehrmacht soldier has been photographed while driving donkey on the beach of Scheveningen. On the back is: GMM. Biller, und den Esel.

Photograph of Christmas Tree on the USS Takanis Bay (CVE-89)

Palomares (Almería), 03/10/1966.- Journalists on board the North American ship Boston, dedicated to the search for the nuclear device lost as a result of a plane accident.

Prevent off the job accidents, away from work the hazards double , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Safety, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Soviet children assembling the weapons to support the troops during world war two

A Cup Of Coffee -- Now And Then. Former Marine "Bob" (Faris M.) Touhy is back from Eniwetok Atoll in the South Pacific. Back to resume at 21 the life he left in Washington, D. C. at 18. The scene behind him is the famous Coast Guard combat photo, taken aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, anchored off Eniwetok, February 19, 1944. Looks different now, doesn't he.

Boys in soldier outfit playing

Mod in Aktie after missionary in 's-Gravenzande in 1972

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Atat Makai, Helwig River. police commissioner Bellegens friendly kout heads village. December 1958. Guinea

Who Said Musicians Have Long Hair. "Jamming it out" on the way to Saipan, these two naked-knobbed musicians contribute to the high spirits aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport bound for battle in the Marianas. The two tooters are Coast Guardsmen Henry Rey, 23, (left), of Crockett, California, and Al Tassi, 19, of San Francisco, California.

Photograph of Coast Guardsman Henry Richmond, Jr. Holding "Camouflage", the Cat Mascot of His Coast Guard-manned Landing Ship. This Coast Guard Cat Needs Nine Lives - He Chases Jap Tracer Bullets. "Camouflage," the tiger cat mascot of a Coast Guard-manned LST, is a playful fellow. His idea of a rousing good time is to chase Jap tracer bullets, when they burn across the deck of his ship. A tracer would come ping and "Camouflage" would dart from one rail to the other in hot, if futile, pursuit. All this occurred, the cat's Coast Guard shipmates swear, when Jap planes strafed the LST at Bougainville. The cat's antics in the heat of those grim moments relieved the tension of the crew. Here, "Camouflage," a thorough seagoing, wargoing cat, is shown with Coast Guardsman Henry Richmond, Jr., an invasion veteran, of Sheboygan, Wis.

Spanish civil war: soldiers from the International Brigade, (Republican).

Wolf class Frigate Hr.Ms. Jaguar (1954-1983), the own flag with the HR.MS Jaguar image.

11/30/1935. The first mask against asphyxiation gases that has passed the Abyssinian front. Fixing the mask on the face of a fellow soldier: this modern clothing is distributed from Addis_Ababa and sent by caravans to the front, but it takes many weeks until the soldiers get these defenses that the capital buys and that are in limited number.

Louis De Ponthieu; Carl Morris; Leach Cross

Revenue Cutter Onondaga, Loading mines for destroyed sunken wreck. Photographs of Revenue Cutter Service Cadets, Ships and Activities. Department of the Treasury

A personal photo of Sergeant 1st Class Jared C. Monti, the first Soldier recipient for actions in Afghanistan/Operation Enduring Freedom.

A personal photo of Sergeant 1st Class Jared C. Monti, the first Soldier recipient for actions in Afghanistan/Operation Enduring Freedom.

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