Historical Military Figures

Black and white photographs of military leaders and inspections, showcasing significant historical figures and military ceremonies.

marshall Josef Pisudski on the Poniatowski Bridge, Warsaw, 12 May 1926, during the May Coup d État. Also present (right) is At right is General Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer.
marshall Josef Pisudski on the Poniatowski Bridge, Warsaw, 12 May 1926, during the May Coup d État. Also present (right) is At right is General Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer.
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NICOLAS II. ZAR DE RUSIA . 1868 - 1918. CON EL REY EDUARDO VII , VISITANDO INGLATERRA.. EL ZAR CON TOCADO DE POLICIA INGLES. GRABADO DE L ' ILLUSTRATION ,AÑO 1911.
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Anefo photo collection. Front Noord-Oost Nederland: Tour of Prince Bernhard. Prince Bernhard on the Grote Markt in Zwolle,; In the background Hotel Peters .. April 17, 1945. Overijssel, Zwolle
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General of the Army Manuel Goded Llopis (October 15, 1882 ñ August 12, 1936) seated at a desk. Goded was a Spanish Army general who was one of the key figures in the July 1936 revolt against the democratically elected Second Spanish Republic. Having unsuccessfully led an attempted insurrection in Barcelona, he was captured and executed by the Republican government.
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04/01/1926. Seville. The Arrival of the Crew of the "plus Ultra". 1. HM the King (X), upon leaving the Cathedral, after the Tedeum, which he attended with the Aviators. 2. Admiral Gago Coutinho (A) and Other Portuguese Aviators Conversing with Franco (B) and Ruiz de Alda (C). 3. Officials of the Argentine cruise "Buenos Aires", in which the Spanish Aviators Returned. (Photos. Duque and Olmedo).
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Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Weimar, Germany, May 1937. Artist: Unknown
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Participants of the Greater East Asia Conference. Left to right front row, Zhang Jinghui, Wang Jingwei, Hideki Tj, Wan Waithayakon, José P. Laurel, Subhas Chandra Bose. The Conference held in Tokyo from 5 to 6 November 1943, was referred to as the Tokyo Conference.
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Lang: John Reginald Paget, permanent RAAF officer who, when he retired recently at the age of 37, was a wing-commander. When Sir B. S. B. Stevens had, in 1940, opposed Daniel Mulcahy, who still holds the seat, he had polled 15,000 against Mulcahy's 23,000. In 1943, William David Harris gained 16,000 votes, but Mulcahy got 41,000. Pretty depressing stuff for the wing-commander to ponder on in the evenings, at home in Penrith. May 17, 1946.
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Italy is cut of It! " - A cosmopolitan crowd in Soho greeted the good news ***** and the Victory sign. This picture shows how Soho, London ***** the news of the Unconditional surrender of Italy to the ***** September 8, 1943.
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Conference on Nazi War Victim Care - Wagner, Adolf and Hess. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.
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German soldiers cutting the beard of an elderly Polish Jew during the occupation of Poland during the Second World War.
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Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials
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ADMIRADORES DE HITLER-SOLDADO DE LA SS Y PUBLICO ESCUCHANDO DISCURSO.
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12/31/1939. The military man Jose Moscardó Ituarte.
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For four days the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic Amintore Fanfani was in the Soviet Union, who visited Moscow at the invitation of N. S. Khrushchev. According to the guest, "the sincere conversations that took place these days made it possible to better identify the framework, terms and conditions for achieving a genuine consolidation of peace. " The picture shows the heads of government of the USSR and Italy bypassing the guard of honor at the Moscow airfield.
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Colonel (later General) Yigal Allon (right) with Palmach soldiers in the Negev desert during Israels war of independence 1948
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Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials
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Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials
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LUIS AIZPURU. MILITAR Y POITICO ESPAÑOL. ALTO COMISARIO DE ESPAÑA EN MARUECOS EN LOS AÑOS 1923 - 1924. ENTREVISTA EN MARUECOS CON EL RAWNI SIDI MUSA EN EL AÑO 1923.
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Black and white photo of strikes of the Popular Front of 1936; at the door of a factory in a Paris suburb.
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The Yalta Conference, (seated) Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, February, 1945
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Kōhei Kashii or Kashii Kōhei (January 25, 1881 - December 3, 1954) was a lieutenant-general in the Imperial Japanese Army. Kashii graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, and became a lieutenant-general in 1931. He was the commander of the Japanese China Garrison Army from 22 December 1930 to 29 February 1932. In November 1931, Kashii imposed martial law over the Japanese-ruled area of the Chinese city of Tientsin. In the February 26 Incident attempted coup d'état of 1936, Kashii was a leader of government forces that suppressed the revolt. Since he was sympathetic to the Imperial Way Faction, he was later relieved of his duties, and then transferred to the reserves
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Anefo photo collection. Battle of Heiligerlee commemorated. Prince Bernhard inspected the troops, links Mr. A. Kloosterboer. 24 May 1968. Groningen (province), Heiligerlee
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División Azul. El general alemán Chappuis imponiendo al general Agustín Muñoz Grandes (1896-1970), comandante de la División Azul, la Cruz de Hierro. Año 1942.
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General Christiansen. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.
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Second World War. Three relatives of the German Wehrmacht during an exercise insert with a flue gas cartridge (probably in Holland)
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12/31/1936. The poet Rafael Alberti, together with the Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg and a group of militiamen on the Talavera front.
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Funeral of Earl Haig.Field Marshal Foch giving Earl Beatty a close hand clasp before they left St. Columbas Church, Pont St. to follow the coffin of their late comrade. February 3, 1928.
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Speaker at Nazi party event circa possibly 1941.
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Nazi victims and resistance fighters from France and Germany against the Nazi regime commemorated together the murdered of the Nazi regime on Good Friday 1945, Germany, 28.3.1975 in Dortmund, Germany, Europe
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Photographs depicting military activities in France, May - June 1940. Included photographs of Rommel, Guderian, Dreuz, Bottcher, Italian General Garaboldi, Lucie Rommel, shots of Rommel with Hitler. Photographs of equipment and troops arriving and in action, from the personal collection of Rommel.
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Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials
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Duke Of Kent Hurt In Crash - Unconscious after head-on car crash.Mr. Roland Higton, driver of the shooting brake which was involved in the crash, talking to a R.A.C, man after the accident.The Duke of Kent, eighteen-year-old cousin of the Queen, was injured in a head-on car collision at Sunningdale, Berks, yesterday. He was rushed, unconscious, to a hospital at Chertsey, and then transferred to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London. An official announcement said that the Duke was suffering from a "moderately severe" head injury. Late last night it was stated,that he had concussion, that his condition was "taking a normal course and-giving rise to no anxiety at present." The Duchess of Kent was informed of the accident at her home at Iver, Bucks. With her younger son, Prince Michael and with a police escort leading the way, she was driven to St. Peter's hospital, Chertsey, where the Duke was first taken. The Duchess also went to see the Duke at the National Hospital for
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The Katyn Massacre, 1940 Parfemon Kiselev, a local resident of Katyn area and a witness of the massacre, giving his testimony to Dr Ferenc Orsós, Professor of Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the University of Budapest, a member of the International Medical Commission. Dr Reimond Speleers, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Ghent and Dr Marko Markov, Reader of Forensic Medicine and Criminology at the University of Sofia, can be both seen on Dr Orsós' right.
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The funeral of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, a Hitler confidant who was convicted as a war criminal by the Nuremberg court martial, turned into a manifestation of Knight's Cross bearers, old and new Nazis. Aumuehle near Hamburg, 06.01.1981, Germany, Europe
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Working visit of Lieutenant General T.J. De Geus, General of the Armed Forces Inspector, at the Amphibian Practice Camp Texel / Joost Dourleink Barracks on Texel.
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Desert Discussion - Tewfik Pasha Abuahuda, Prime Minister of Transjordan (left) with Glubb Pasha, in London today, (Monday).Tewfik Pasha Abuahuda, Prime Minister accompanied by Brigadier Glubb Pasha, (John Bagot Glubb C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., Commander of the picturesque Arab Legion, have arrived in London for talks with Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin to discuss revision of the Anglo-Transjordan Treaty, and the future of the Arab Legion. January 26, 1948.
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Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht on his bed in the accommodation (well with the Hague)
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France Honours British Service Chiefs : Field Marshal Lord Alan Brooke , chief imperial general staff, receiving the Accolade from general Alphonse Juin, when he was invested.General Alphonse Juin, chief of state of the French committee of national defense, Bestowed honours on British service chiefs in a Ceremony at the house of M. Rene, Massigl, French Ambassador in Britain, At Lowndes house, Lowndes place, London, today February 12. February 20, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) Austrian-born German politician, leader of the Nazi Party. Chancellor of Germany (1933-1945) and Führer und Reichskanzler of Germany (1934-1945). Hitler taking the salute at a Nazi rally.
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Mumbai Police, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India NO MR Copyright: xMukeshxParpiani/DinodiaxPhotox
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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
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General Montgomery at Open-Air Service in France: General Montgomery reading the lesson.General Montgomery and Lieut, Gen Sir Miles Dempsey, C-in-C, 2nd Army, were present at an open - air service for British troops "Somewhere in France" to-day Sunday, July 16th. A harmonium provided the music and general Montgomery read the lessen. July 01, 1944.
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West Indians in Britain during the Second World War West Indians in the Royal Air Force: The Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Right Hon Oliver Stanley, seen chatting with three volunteers (Left to right: AC W P Ince of British Guiana, AC E Johnson of Jamaica and AC S E Johnson of Jamaica) during a passing out parade of West Indians at a Royal Air Force station in Yorkshire.
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French prisoners tend their comrades in Wulzburg prisoner of war camp during World War II, where they set up a barbers shop.
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The funeral of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, a Hitler confidant who was convicted as a war criminal by the Nuremberg court martial, turned into a manifestation of Knight's Cross bearers, old and new Nazis. Aumuehle near Hamburg, 06.01.1981, Germany, Europe
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Anefo photo collection. tent. About Polish liberators "We thank the Poland" in former storage house. May 1, 1981. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Mao Tse Tung.
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FRANCO BAHAMONDE, FRANCISCO MILITAR Y POLITICO ESPA¿OL. EL FERROL 1892-1975 JEFE DE ESTADO ESPA¿OL 1937-1975 ENTIERRO EN LA BASILICA DEL VALLE DE LOS CAIDOS, AÑO 1975.
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Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr checks out the cockpit of a Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II aircraft, during his tour of the base. CAPT. Allenback explains some of the cockpit instruments to the secretary. Base: Myrtle Beach Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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The Communist Party of Burma (Burmese: မာပြည်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ; CPB) is the oldest existing political party in Burma. The party is unrecognised by the Burmese authorities, rendering it illegal; so it operates in a clandestine manner, often associating with insurgent armies along the border of People's Republic of China. It is often referred to as the Burma Communist Party (BCP) by both the Burmese government and the foreign media.
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Photograph of General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster, Quartermaster General to the Forces.
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050715-A-5024R-001. Base: Fort Hood State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast
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The NPD's right-wing radical action Resistance was a nationwide response to Willy Brandt's 1970 policy of understanding with the East, which generated a sometimes furious reaction from left-wing parties and groups at the Au appearances of old and neo-Nazis, DEU, Germany, Bonn, Hamburg, Essen, Europe
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Dr. Gregorio Del Amo and with the Cleratian brothers. Rancho San Pedro Photograph Collection.
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Nazi victims, youth associations, trade unions, young and old people and citizens' initiatives joined forces in a demonstration against a meeting of traditional SS associations 28.04.1979 in Arolsen, Germany, Europe
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General Walter with a Brigadier in 1938.
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Artwork: "Don Gentile, Captain Courageous" Artist: George Guzzi. Country: Unknown
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Errands of Mercy (eighth of eight): Erle Cocke Jr., National Commander of the American, Legion, stands by the city limits sign of Oberwilzingen, scene of his "Execution" in 1945. June 4, 1951. (Photo by Acme Photo).
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Chungking, China: September 14, 1945 Communist faction leader Mao Tse-Tung arrived with U.S. Ambassador Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley to meet with Chiang Kai-Shek. General Hurley went to Yenan to fetch Mao and guarantee his safety.