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Historical Military Excavations

Black and white images showing ancient military sites and excavations, featuring rocky terrains and strategic positions from historical conflicts.

Excavations. Tell Jemmeh (Gerar). Tell Jemmeh. Excavated area of Gerar. On southern end of mound. 1920, Israel, Tell Jemmeh

Cattle Pass / Louis DeBray doing Surveying. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Observatory and understar of the team at the RavelNik. .

Yorktown, Virginia. Cornwallis cave. Used as a powder magazine by the Confederates. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

From S.Martino am Mt.s.Michele 6.11.17. .

Fylgia (depicted name).Fylgia (depicted name)

Presumably a photo gallery of a honing unit with field of application in Galicia.

Malmletning South West of Loussavaara, September 1918. Observer and hand heater with each of the calculator. The other hand tubter wears sticks, which should mark the point of the equotential line. Immediately behind the staff, one line electrode appears.

Austrian artillery delivery on Glinska GA.,

Artillery Observatory 43.

An unexploded shell is excavated from a bomb crater in Belgium, circa 1915, world War I,

War album 88, picture 25620.

Leaners and Company Command of the 9th Field Company of the Infantry Regiment 4, III.Bataillone at Colony Alexandrowka. A newly arrived march battalion marches in the camp.

Dannemarie, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France Command post , 1917 - Alsace - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (June) (French - Dannemarie , Haut-Rhin , Alsace , France Poste de commandement). Front, anti-bombardment protection, First World War, France, Dannemarie, command post

Commando accommodations in the Cava Romana.3.6.1917. .

Zandzakken tegen de buitenmuren tijdens de evacuatie in 1939; Evacuatie van het Rijksmuseum vanwege oorlogsdreiging, augustus - november 1939.Among other things all the basement walls were covered with sandbags, as well as a few floors. Here the basement on the south side, eastern wing. A canons run has even been replaced. In 1939 evacuation of many cases took place in connection with the war threat. The museum was closed.

Output of the 3rd field guard at the 16th Company of the Bosnian-Herzegovinic Infantry Regiment1, L 9.1.1917.

Prayer For a Fallen Buddy. Head bowed in prayer, a United States Marine kneels beside the body of his buddy, killed in the invasion of Saipan, Japanese stronghold in the Marianas. The field is won, but to many Yankee invaders-- Marines, soldiers, Coast Guardsmen and sailors -- there was sadness for buddies and shipmates were lost in the heavy casualties.

Werkzaamheden bij de toegang tot schuilkelder A te Heemskerk; Kelders te Heemskerk.Men lay planks. These bomb-free cellars were built in 1940 after the shelters in North Holland villages were not safe. The collection of the museum of the museum had been adacred in 1939. The new cellars were put into use in 1941.

Maschingencaster Casmatte Kaverne Monte Cheya.

Militia fighter stands on a horse with his during the Spanish Civil War

US Civil War. Petersburg Campaign, June 9, 1864 to March 25, 1865. Interior of Fort Sedgwick on the Union front line during the Siege of Petersburg. This section was designed by Col. Washington Augustus Roebling, with gabion trenches at right angles, to protect soldiers from incoming fire. At right are fraises, sharpened anti-personel wood stakes (BSLOC_2018_9_153)

These died, that our Nation might live. We were driven from this field (Wilderness) before we could gather our wounded or bury our dead. This is the way we found the field covered when we returned some months later, US, USA, America, Vintage photography

Accommodation of a telephone department in a tunnel, Isonzofront. .

30.5cm mortar in position in Rosental at Villa Starkenfels, 8.11.1915. .

Top and explosives of a 42cm grenade in Valmorbia. .

Photo collection First World War. Salonie. Bulgar Rifles. 1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

Accommodations and magazines at the section command on the VRSIC in the Nordrinen.

Album leaf with 5 photos at the time of the police actions in the Dutch East Indies. Album leaf with 5 photos. The most interesting is a photo, middle, from a destroyed rubber factory, with the inscription on the back: by gang destroyed rubber factory. Leaf in the album entitled in memory of my overseas service, on police actions in the Dutch East Indies.

Skiopticone image with motifs of peat breaking on unknown bog.

Bulgarians in trenches

La Boisselle mine crater Aug 1916

Torrejón el Rubio (Cáceres), 10/22/1965. Brigades of dam workers recover one of the bodies.

Bridge destroyed by retreating French troops to impede the advance of the German Army, during World war One 1914

Villa Bratianu in Predeal, 4.11.16. Archduke Karl was from June 1916, upper-commander of a section of the Eastern Front and commanded several armies between Brody and the Carpathians. As part of this commander, Archduke Karl inspected his associated units.

German Military Installations At Normandy Beach, France. Taken 22 June 1944.

Soldiers standing next to bunker in bombarded forest at Merkem in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium, Europe

Two men on a wall of the fortress of Pharijong, D.T. Dalton, 1903 - 1906.

42 cm Haitzen position in the Canal Valley at Gugg. Visit of the K.H.L./15 by Sr. Excellence of the Army Commander. .

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Austrian trench overlooking the Val dAssa. Captured by the 143rd Infantry Brigade, 48th Division, 2nd November, 1918.

Italian columns of mules and trucks carrying ammunition to the frontline, Slovenia, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 36, September 9, 1917.

Chattanooga, Tenn., vicinity. Tripod signal erected by Capts. Dorr and Donn of U.S. Coast Survey at Pulpit Rock on Lookout Mountain. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Surveying equipment, Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn, 1863, United States, Tennessee, Chattanooga.

Major-General Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler's Entrenchment at Cawnpore. Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

Before the officer fair on the three languages tip: .ciser Karl on the Swiss border. .

Own infection on the cat, which is located between southern Kotlice & Nw.N.AN the Nida, Directorate Gur Kotlice and the terrain east of it. .

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Kibbets Yad Mordecay. Building belonging to Kibbos Yad Mordecay, which was damaged in 1948 during the Israeli Arab War. January 1, 1949. Israel

'Stand to' till 'Stand Down'. From the album: Photograph album of Major J.M. Rose, 1st NZEF, 1915, Gelibolu Yarimadasi, by Major John Rose.

01/01/1920. Melilla: Operations in Beni Said. General Cabanellas Giving Orders for the fortification of the Sbuch Sba camp.

Effect of a Russian aviator bomb, dropped on 20.II.1916 at 10 o'clock afterwards. In Buczacz, where 2 women and Eun child were seriously injured with 12 years. .

Anefo photo collection. Atlantikwal: Westkapelle. Reporting of the destroyed Atlantikwall after the Battle of the Scheldemonding (Westkapelle) .. November 1944. Westerschelde, Westkapelle, Zeeland

Welfare photos of Operation Cue Atomic Explosion , Nuclear weapons testing, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

This photo, dating to before 1922, relates to World War I. The caption reads: Caterpillar Tank demonstrated to officers of army meets disaster. A model tank constructed to be demonstrated to officers odf the United States Army turned a double somersault while climbing a bank after crossing the Los Angeles river, when the soft earrth gave way under the 13-ton machine. The demonstration, however, was successful, as it showed how easily a machine used in time of war can cross a river and climb its banks. The Tank is modeled after those in actual service in Europe.

Anefo photo collection. South of the Netherlands. Report on the dangers of mines and abandoned ammunition for children playing. Speeches from fire brigade and police to the children. Encons of accidents. 24 December 1945. Southern Netherlands

Dutch Gap, Virginia Bomb-proof quarters of Major Strong. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Dutch Gap.

Yorkshire recruits getting ready for active service at the front. Men of a Yorkshire service battalion in training. Trench-digging and sapping. World War One, 1915.

Anefo photo collection. Workers in sun on bunkers in Zandvoort. February 2, 1951. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort

Fire at the headquarters of the telephone company, the central battery on the fourth floor, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, No 3422, September 26, 1908.

Stretcher bearers at work lifting a seriously wounded soldier onto a stretcher following an offensive in the vicinity of a French farmhouse during World War I. Date: c.1916

Accommodation hut on Ludinutt + 1805..

A French sapper carrying out delicate work in a trench during world war one 1916

Collecting remains of the dead, US, USA, America, Vintage photography

Touring Club Italiano excursion in Abruzzo. 1922

''Les Combats Devant Soissons; Les ruines de la distillerie de Vauxrot, entre Soissons et Cuffies', 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1926.

Silver gelatin photograph depicting object 32 at the Vienna Arsenal by Martin Gerlach Jr., captured prior to 1938; focuses on the objects architectural and mechanical characteristics.

Men of the machine gun section of the 11th Hussars in the trenches at Zillebeke during the winter of 1914-1915. The man wearing the balaclava is Corporal Peel, who went on to become the unit's Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) in 1930.

Mr. Jamal's grave. 1917, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Coucy-le-Chteau, Aisne, France , 1917 - Devastated regions, Somme, Oise, Aisne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the army) - (September -October) (French - Coucy-le-Chteau , Aisne , France). Camouflage, back-fronst, military uniform, road, hairy, man, army, First World War, clothing, human beings, society, France, Coucy le Chau, the camouflaged roads

Photo collection First World War. With the Serbians on the Salonika Front. A Serbian Ammunition Camp .. 1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

Trenches at FJ.Baon 31, Sw.Mokrsko. .

Nauroy , Marne , Champagne , France , 1919 - Devastated regions, Marne, Aisne - Fernand Cuville - (August) (French - Nauroy , Marne , Champagne , France). Christianity, funeral architecture, commemorative inscription, funeral inscription, commemoration, fortress, military cemetery, post-war, religious architecture, army, Religion, housing , architecture, registration , information, First World War, Society, France, at Fort de la Pompelle: tombs of 5 soldiers who fell in 1914

Infantry Regiment 377, 1.Batillion. Section Gertrud recreation room behind the A-line.

Montenegrins attacking Becic i.e., Decic Fort

01/01/1937. A Civilian Person Murdered and Wrapped in Clothes.

A Russian Field Marshall whio gained fame for successful campaign in Switzerland. This card depicts the memorial to General Suvorov at Schollenen, Switzerland. Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov, Count Suvorov of Rymnik, Prince of Italy, Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1729 1800), was the fourth and last Generalissimus of the Russian Empire. One of the few great generals in history who never lost a battle, he was famed for his manual 'The Science of Victory'. Date: circa 1910

Guard Room in St Cloud (TF)

guerra, cappellano militare, 1915 1918

View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), showing the debris, shot, and shell. Civil War Photograph Collection , Original negative is: LC-B811-3051. Forts & fortifications, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, War damage, South Carolina, Charleston, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military facilities, South Carolina, Charleston, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Destruction & pillage, South Carolina, Charleston.

Statue of Captain Parker, Lexington, Mass. still image. Postcards. 1913 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Monuments & memorials , Massachusetts , Lexington, Parker, John, d. 1775 , Statues, Sculpture , Massachusetts , Lexington

Presentation of the different floor caliber of K.U.K. Army.

Trenches east of Prokopiw IR35 .

Anefo photo collection. Margraten soldier grave. Margraten cemetery. 1945. Margraten

Reims , Marne , Champagne , France , 1917 - Marne - Fernand Cuville (photographic section of the armies) (French - Reims , Marne , Champagne , France). Rear-fronst, cycling transport, military uniform, pipe, street scene, ruins, rear, bombing, hairy, rubble, smoker, man, army, army, First World War, transport, clothing, daily life, human beings, society, France, Reims, two hairy place Royale

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Ruins in the town of Asiago; entered by the 1/4th Ox & Bucks., 48th Division, 30th October, 1918.

Original caption: "Palm Springs pipeline trench". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

11/30/1912. The Greeks in the Eastern War. Burial of Dead Greek Officers at the Sarantaporo Pass, where an important battle was fought between the Greeks and the Turks.

Die zerstörte Stadt Josefow an der Weichsel. Im Hintergund eine von Oesterreichern geschlagene Notbrücke.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Destruction and pillage , Poland , Józefów

Zurückgekehrte russische Flüchtlinge suchen Salz und anderes aus den abgebrannten Resten eines Kolonialwarren-Geschäftes.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Destruction and pillage, World War, 1914-1918 , Refugees , Russian

DESASTERS OF WAR: COUNCIL OF STATE, SINGLE SAMPLE Disasters of the war: Council of State, Hall of Sessions ". Photograph of J. Andrieu.

Vintage photograph. The stars and stripes on shurry Castle on Okinawa

British Mark IV tank on the Western Front, First World War, c1917, (c1920). 'H. M. Landship Crusty in Action: one of the Tanks advancing over newly-made shell-holes'. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume VII, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Graveyard of the T-Brigade in Semarang. Plaque Red Cross Semarang in the graveyard "Your duty position made our work of charity possible". July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

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