Historical Military Briefings

Black and white images of military officials in various settings, depicting formal interactions and office environments from mid-20th century.

Sergio Fenoaltea, NATO Personnel. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
Sergio Fenoaltea, NATO Personnel. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Major Gen Horace Fuller (U.S) deputy Chief of Staff ***** South East Astc. Command. April 23, 1947.
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection T.O. Wilson
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Col D. Dwyer. January 01, 1948.
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High Commissioner Killed in Malaya Ambush - Sir Henry in London shortly before he left to take up his appointment in Malaya.Sir Henry's home was at Bude, Cornwall.Sir Henry Gurney, 53, High Commissioner for Malaya, was killed in a communist Ambush about two miles South of the gap of the Kualakubu Pahang Road in Malaya today, October 6. October 7, 1951. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)
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Offer from the veterans policy note Care for veterans in conjunction with Defense Minister A.L. Ter Beek to the chairman of the veteran platform, Lieutenant General B.D. T. Meines, Ministry of Defense. The General with the Note.
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Comdr. A.B. Fry
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Anefo photo collection. Dutch farmers are going to set up a company in France. World War II, Agriculture. August 1945. France
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Aviators-Britain - Atcherley, Flight Lt. August 18, 1937. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.)
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Captain Cecil H Fox of the HMS Amphenol; a cruiser of the Royal navy. She became the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the First World War in August 1914
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Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials
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High Commissioner In Malaya is Assassinated -- Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya since 1948, who was assassinated by terrorists in a jungle Ambush today (Saturday). Lady Gurney, who was with him at the time for the shooting, escaped unhurt. The ambush occurred 52 miles from Kuala Lumpur. Sir Henry and Lady Gurney were travelling car up a hilly road, from Kuala Kubu, when the guerillas appeared, firing automatic her husband's body back to Kuala Kubu in an army ***** which had taken troops to the spot. The main body of Sir Henry's police escort had been left a little distance behind on the road. Their car had broken down, but Sir Henry's car, accompanied by some armed police, had gone on. October 6, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto)
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Second World War. For billeting. Soviet Union. Portrait of a Wehrmaching outdoor
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Anefo photo collection. Red Cross: Alphen aan den Rijn. Headquarters Red Cross in Alphen aan den Rijn. 1945. Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland
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On December 12, 1960, Democratic President-elect John F. Kennedy appointed Rusk Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, Rusk believed in the use of military action to combat Communism. Despite private misgivings about the Bay of Pigs invasion, he remained noncommittal during the Executive Council meetings leading up to the attack and never opposed it outright. During the Cuban missile crisis he supported diplomatic efforts. Early in his tenure, he had strong doubts about US intervention in Vietnam, but later his vigorous public defense of US actions in the Vietnam War made him a frequent target of anti-war protests. Rusk also drew the ire of supporters of Israel after he let it be known that he believed the USS Liberty incident was a deliberate attack on the ship, rather than an accident.
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English Adviser To Transjordan Mission - Glubb Pasha, D.S.O., O.B.E. photographed on his arrival in London today.Transjordan's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister arrived in London to-day with their adviser, British-born Glubb Pasha, wiry 50-year-old Arab Legion leader. They meet Mr. Bevin to-morrow to discuss revision of the Anglo-Transjordan Treaty. Glubb Pasha went to the Middle East in 1920 as captain in the Royal Engineers. He says that the thrill of the desert attracted him and he decided to stay. he established law and order among Bedouin tribes and trained them to fight with modern weapons. 26.1.48. March 15, 1948.
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F. J. Finnan, Officer Labour Hawkesbury. May 21, 1941.
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Man ,. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Chiang Kai-shek photographed in China, 1938-39. Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 - April 5, 1975) was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928-75. He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the ROC from 1928-48. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War (the Chinese theater of WWII), consolidating power from the party's former regional warlords. A major split between the Nationalists and Communists occurred in 1927; and, under his leadership, the Nationalists fought a nationwide civil war against the Communists. In 1949 Chiang's government and army retreated to Taiwan, where he imposed martial law and persecuted people critical of his rule in a period known as the "White Terror". After evacuating to Taiwan, his government continued to declare its intention to retake mainland China. Chiang ruled the island securely as President of the Republic of China and General of the Ku
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'La Paix Victorieuse; L'attentat contre M Clemenceau; Le president du Conseil, photographie le 24 fevrier 1919, cinq jours apres sa blessure', 1919. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Castle Rock ship. Coast Guard League annual memorial services trip around Cape Cod canal. Henry Hutchings , Ships, Military personnel, United States. Coast Guard. Leon Abdalian Collection
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Anefo photo collection. Captain A.C. Valk (78) says goodbye to the Verolme group. A.C. Valk holds a speech. September 1, 1966
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How Berlin Looked To British Troops On July 3/4 -- An advance party of the 7th Armoured Division (Desert *****) Berlin on July 8 to make final arrangements for the main moved in on the 4th. This and its companion pictures ***** of what is happening in Berlin.Mr. Churchill's famous words above his picture at the ***** Tiergarten. September 3, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photo).
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Anefo photo collection. Cabinet formation; Den Uyl on arrival of general matters. August 22, 1977
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Anefo photo collection. Review Netherlands. Report "Review Netherlands". November 2, 1945. Eindhoven
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09/30/1936. Alfonso Xiii Follows the Operations of the National Army during the War.
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Major Oscar Werner.
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Iwao Oyama (1842-1916) Japanese soldier. From photograph taken after his victory at the Battle of Mukden in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, when he defeated General Kuropatkin.
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Trip to South America: White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) communications equipment preparations, personnel, and city views 1961-12-15 \u2013 1961-12-18. White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) officer, Anibal Reyes, works with communications equipment at an unidentified location in South America.
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Alleged Major Japanese War Criminal : Shigenori Togo, who was Foreign Minister under Tojo from October 1941 to March 1942, and under Suzuki in 1945, is one of the 25 alleged major Japanese War criminals on trial at the International Military Tribunal For the Far East in Tokyo, Japan. August 25, 1947. (Photo by McDonald, U.S. Army Signal Corps).
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A soldier writing a letter with a gun next to him (EV005966_H)
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The Ma clique is a collective name for a group of Hui (Muslim Chinese) warlords in northwestern China who ruled the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia from the 1910s until 1949. There were three families in the Ma clique ('Ma' being a common Hui rendering of the common Muslim name, Muhammad), each of them controlling one area respectively. The three most prominent members of the clique were Ma Bufang, Ma Hongkui and Ma Hongbin, collectively known as the 'Xibei San Ma', (The Three Ma of the Northwest). Some contemporary accounts, such as Edgar Snow's, described the clique as the 'Four Ma', adding Ma Bufang's brother Ma Buqing to the list of the top warlords.
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World War I, 1915. Three of Giuseppe Garibaldis sons (LtoR), Riccioti, Peppino and Bruno, fought in France, for the allied cause against Germany
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U.S. Soldier Decorated By Shah Of Iron -- Sgt. Bob J. Hook, Lawton, Okla., sits up in Tehran, Iran, hospital bed after he was decorated with Iran's third highest award, the Eftekhar Medal, by order of the shah of Iran. In the citation, the shah wrote the medal was awarded to Hook "or all Americans who are going to the corners of the earth risking their lives for the people of other countries. "Hook, an ammunition expert attached to the U.S. military mission with the Iranian Army, lost all the fingers on his right hand as a captured Communist grenade exploded while he was examining it. September 11, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Sorokin, Ivan Semyonovich (1910-) State Central Artillery Museum, St. Petersburg 1951 70x55 Oil on canvas Soviet Art Russia
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Anefo photo collection. Mr. Nguyen from An in Lower House. South Vietnamese agent. August 25, 1967. Vietnam
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S. McChord Crothers
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Passports IX. Man with shirt with loose epaulettes and the SOUWEMBLEE OVV war volunteer. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Issued By Department of Information, Commonwealth Of Australia -- Mr. Artemus L. Gates, American under Secretary for the Navy. He is the first American of Cabinet rank to visit New Guinea. Mr. Gates who served in the American Air Force in World War 1, made a tour of the South And Southwest Pacific areas to "see the set up." June 21, 1943.
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King Cetshwayo led the independent state of Zululand during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. British demands for his disarmament started the war. At the legendary Battle of Isandlwana, Jan. 1879, Zulus crushed a British force, killing 1300. In July 1879 the British won the Battle of Ulundi and Cetshwayo was deposed and exiled. The Battle of Isandlwana, is the historical event military satirized in MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE, 1983 (BSLOC_2017_20_42)
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Anefo photo collection. Former NATO generals, together in Nieuwspoort, offer all Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense in NATO countries a memorandum in connection with the December session of NATO. General von Meyenfeldt. November 25, 1981. The Hague, South Holland
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The work of the Merchant Navy during the Second World War, 1943 A head and shoulders portrait of merchant seaman Salam Mohamid of Aden. Mr Mohamid had previously served for four years in the Royal Navy, and saw service on HMS SHANTA in the early stages of the war. A wireless can be seen behind him in the bottom left hand corner of the photograph.
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Carne of the ***** garden again in England.Once again enjoying his hobby of gardening 1st Lt.- Colonel J.P. Carne, VC, Dno, back home at Cranam, Gloucestershird, from commanding the first battalion the Gloucestershiro Regiment in Korea.After the rigours of his Korean service and captivity he is to become the commandant of the army apprentices.' school at ***** and will take up the appointment, with the rank of coonel, next April. January 20, 1954. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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03/31/1915. The French state councilor M. Collignon died heroically on the battlefield (on the back of the photo there is a brief Biography).
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Dr. Rev. G. Bell. March 18, 1944. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Ltd.).
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JUAN DOMINGO PERON (1895-1974). JUAN DOMINGO PERON (1895-1974) GENERAL PERON.
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The British Reoccupation of Burma Lieutenant General Tanaka, one of seventeen Japanese generals held as prisoners of war at Insein near Rangoon, passes the time by writing his diary. Also held at the camp were three colonels, three lieutenant colonels, five majors, three captains, five lieutenants, twenty three other ranks and one naval captain. A number of these men, including Tanaka, were suspected war criminals.
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Anefo photo collection. Command GPD, Dr. P. A. VOUTEN. November 22, 1974
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Pibulsongkram was one of the leaders of the military branch of the People's Party that staged a coup d'état and overthrew Thailand's absolute monarchy in 1932. In 1938, Pibulsonggram replaced Phraya Phahol as Prime Minister. Pibulsonggram began to increase the pace of modernisation in Thailand. By manipulating the mass media, Pibulsonggram supported fascism and nationalism. In 1939, Pibulsonggram changed the country's name from Siam to Thailand. In 1941, in the midst of World War II, he decreed January 1 the official start of the new year instead of the traditional April 13. When the Japanese invaded Thailand on December 8, 1941, Pibulsonggram was reluctantly forced to order a general ceasefire after just one day of resistance. On December 12, Pibulsongkram signed a military alliance with Japan. The following month, on January 25, 1942, Pibulsongkram declared war on the allied powers. At the war's end, Pibulsonggram was put on trial at Allied insistence. However, he was acquitted amids
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Anefo photo collection. Dr. Lou de Jong explained Hague 11-B series World War. December 15, 1985. Hague, South Holland
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NATO Delegates. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Artwork: "GEN Carl 'Tooey' Spaatz" Artist: Louis Behan. Country: Unknown
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Dr. Weeks ,. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Wing - Com. Cowan had an outstanding war record in the Pacific and Europe, won the DSO. December 30, 1953.
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General Henri - Honore Giraud broadcasting a message is the French people in the BBC European Service, on July 2 ***** during his brief visit to London. July 21, 1943.
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Anefo photo collection. Twelve general assembly of the World Veterans Federation in The Hague. The president of WVF, W. C. J. M. van Lanschot. September 7, 1967. The Hague, South Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Education and Sciences command of Drimmelen (head). January 29, 1979