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Historical Military Events

Black and white footage captures significant historical military events, including troop inspections, parades, and battles from the early to mid-20th century.

A parade occurs after a compromise is reached in the Greek-Turkish Cyprus dispute in 1959

Image of an army truck full of loaded with people, amidst the audience at the Town Huisbrug in Utrecht, during the arrival of the Allies.

Visit of Kaiser Karl in Trento at Infantry Regiment 88.

Bounce, Das Kaiser Tarn DIE DEALREMER Antirlisèn Requiem. .

The traditional 1 May 1958 parade of the DGB. here in Hanover, also echoed the demands of the proclaimer of the peace movement Kampf dem Atomtod, Germany, Europe

High water at Wheeling, W. Va. 1884. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. West Virginia, Wheeling (W. Va.), Floods

Sgt. Douglas ***** from Burma - James after three years. February 4, 1945.

New York City, garbage collector's strike, police protecting garbage carts, photograph, November, 1911.

Bombers Over Nelson As R.A.F. Prepares For Victory Fly-Plast.Lancaster bombers of the Royal Air Force flying information over Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London, as they rehearsed for the fly-past of nearly three hundred warplanes to take place on Victory Day, June 8. June 06, 1946.

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

Berlin Wall Photo - 10/30/1964 - Due to A Water Line Burst Soviet Volksarmee Workers Tore 8 Meters of the Wall During the Morning Hours.

Participants in the winter group vacation in Val Formazza. 1949

Propaganda Drop. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)

Wehrmacht soldiers on Rembrandtplein, 1941 photograph Wehrmacht soldiers are on Rembrandtplein, around them citizens. Heck's lunchroom can be seen in the background. On the back is: Amsterdam IM October 1941. Amsterdam photographic support gelatin silver print occupation ~ war. occupier and civilians Amsterdam. Rembrandtplein

Japan - Officers visiting Yasukuni Shrine on festival. Photograph shows the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan which honours people who died in service of Japan.

In the election campaign for the 1969 Bundestag elections, here at NPD appearances in Siegen and Moers in 1969, the NPD encountered resistance from various democratic groups of youth, trade unions, social democrats and leftists with demands such as dissolve NPD One Adolf was enough No pardon the neo-Nazis. The police tried to remain neutral. Police with Tschako. Siegen, Germany, Europe

US Civil War. Overland Campaign, May 4 to June 24, 1864. Gen. Ulysses Grant holds a council of war on June 2, 1864, before the Battle of Cold Harbor. Grant bends over to look at a map held by Gen. George Meade. Because the day was very hot, Union army commanders sit in pews borrowed from the nearby Massaponax Church. Photo by Timothy O'Sullivan (BSLOC_2018_9_146)

November 24, 1939. Transfer of the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera.

Abraham's Lincoln's funeral procession in New York City, April 24, 1865. The horse drawn catafalque and coffin begin their way up Broadway from City Hall. Military honor guard hold their rifles in reverse position, with the muzzle to the ground. Spectators line the street eight person deep (BSLOC_2019_5_82)

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Man in uniform at a monument, 1940 - 1943 photograph Man in uniform (wa) Stands for a monument. Netherlands photographic support the soldier; the soldier's life Netherlands

Photograph of a canteen serving coffee to those effected by the Battersea Bombing Incident, London. Dated 1945

Large Group of Breaker Boys inside Ewen Breaker, Noon Break, South Pittston, Pennsylvania, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, January 1911

Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Roof Spotters Journalist roof spotters scanning the horizon through binoculars on the roof of a Fleet Street newspaper office during an air raid warning in London.

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