Historical Military Interactions

Black and white images showing military personnel and prisoners of war. The mood is serious, with various uniforms and historical military settings.

Photograph from the 'Great Leap Forward' Campaign. Chinese villagers from Chung Haing Hsiang in the Pai Chuan Province welcome the arrival of tractors. Dated 1958

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection German East Africa. Making bush stretchers for wounded at Nyangao. Nigerian Brigade.

Prisoners of war at the Grider villa

Germans Ordered to ***** Dead -- ***** the political prisoners to the graves.After occupying the German town of Nordhauswn, the military government officer, Major David Paulette of Farmville Va., ordered the bourge, meister of the town to get about 600 men and ***** graves for the 2,5oo dead political Prisoners the camp, all of whom were Unburied Then, the man were sent down to the camp to carry the be to the graves for burial. May 21, 1945. (Photo by Acme)

Premier Visits Rocket Launching Site - Mr. Churchill talking to war correspondents during his inspection of the uncompleted rocket-launching site. During his visit to Normandy the prime minister inspected the giant concrete structure captured on the Cherbourg peninsula, and believed to have boon intended for rocket attacks on this country. July 25, 1944.

German soldiers as prisoners of war are captured by French forces in eastern France, France, during world war one. 1916

Photograph from the 'Great Leap Forward' Campaign. Chinese villagers from Chung Haing Hsiang in the Pai Chuan Province welcome the arrival of tractors. Dated 1958

An emergency exercise of the fire brigade, the civil protection and the Red Cross dealt with the training for the rescue of injured persons and disaster response in Mettmann, Germany, 13 November 1971, Europe

Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 Civil Defence rescue workers search for survivors under a huge pile of rubble and timbers following a V1 attack in the Highland Road and Lunham Road area of Upper Norwood. In the background, an ambulance of the American Ambulance Great Britain, several police officers and a National Fire Service trailer pump can be seen. In addition, a group of men of the Pioneer Corps are also visible in the top left hand corner. They are waiting for instructions on where to dig from the rescue squads.

Nazi Police in Poland: A truck carrying bags of rye and wheat with other goods was trapped in the early hours of morning ny Nazi Army Police. The truck was searched and all the people in connection with it now face long terms of imprisonment. These smuggled pictures just received in England via Switzerland and New York give some idea of the attitude adopted by the Nazi Army Police of Occupation. The Polish people, Jews and Gentiles, have all their possessions subjected to vigorous search and lon

Spanish refugees reach France at the end of the Spanish Civil War

Anefo photo collection. Marvo funeral Sergeant Wessels Haarlem. April 21, 1953. Haarlem

The battle of Menin Road. A photograph of British and German soldiers being treated at a dressing station near Zonnebek. Date: 1917

Communist Liaison Officers at Panmunjom -- Led by Senior Col. Ju Yon, chief Communist Liaison officer, leads Communist negotiators into the meeting room at Panmunjom for discussion with UN liaison officers the proposal to release sick and wounded prisoners of war. April 03, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Coventry Rebuilds -- Citizens watch men at work, relaying road surface in Broadgate. Loudspeakers are for forthcoming royal visit to Coventry, when the new Broadgate will be opened officially. June 29, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Anefo photo collection. Major research Moerdijk fellowship NLM nevertheless crashed yesterday. Staff looking mortal remains surrounded. October 7, 1981. Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant

Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing images from the liberation of Paris in 1944; a mobile guard unit repels a German attack. The image shows fighters behind sand bags.

Barcelona, 01/18/1977. Tragic accident in the port of Barcelona. An American barge collided with a merchant ship entering the port. In the photo, moment of rescue of one of the victims.

French colonial soldiers in Picardy, France, World War I, 1915. 475,000 troops from France's colonies served in the French army during the First World War. A print from Le Pays de France, 1 April 1915. The photographer is unknown.

12/31/1936. Santander front. Weapons captured from the enemy in Portugalete (Vizcaya).

Graphic Picture of striking French miners pulling up rails to make barricades against troops at Roche La Moliere, near St. Etienne. October 28, 1948. (Photo by The Associated Press Ltd.).

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Female ATS workers in training, learning to cook using field equipment in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

01/31/1922. The Beuthen mining disaster (Germany). First Aid to the Surviving Victims of the Incident, which has been the largest of its kind that have occurred in Germany. In the First Moments About 120 Bodies Were Extracted. (Photothek photo) -.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Ereveld Tjililitan. "U-Brigade says goodbye to her killing". Speech by the Penghoeloe of Pasar Rebo, Mohamed Dachlan. November 8, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

French soldiers at an army cinema, France, 1940. Artist: Unknown

Vintage Photograph. Angry Crowd from Old Movie Still.

No Honor for These Chinese War Dead - Unhonored, unsung and uncared for are these Chinese war dead. The bodies of these soldiers were carelessly piled in an army truck to be hauled away for burial following violent clashes with Japanese troops in North China. March 09, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The bombing of Nagasaki. The city is only one of two atomic bomb targets in history so far. Codenamed 'Fat Man', the bomb killed 40,000 instantly and achieved a final death toll of nearly 74,000 and almost 75,000 injuries. Although more powerful than the 'Little Boy' bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Nagasaki's rough terrain meant the damage was reduced.

UK, London, A.F.S. (Auxiliary Fire Service) women keep fit at the Hugh Myddleton station, 1941, Special keep-fit classes for women of the London A.F.S are being held. Their health officer, Company Officer Diesch, is a Danish-trained physical instructor and she is conducting a series of classes at the Hugh Myddleton School, Clerkenwell, to teach likely students how to become instructors themselves.

12/31/1914. The Germans Concentrated in Barcelona. The preparation of the ranch for the Sheltered in the old building on Travesera Street -Pelando Patatas.

Military officers direct the beach assault taking place during Operation Ocean Venture '82. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '82 Base: Vieques Island State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Austrian prisoners being issued with clean linen.

Dead of FLORIDA's landing party, Vera Cruz

'Fantastic Scenes of Surrender and Defeat', 1943-44. Artist: Unknown.

Photograph of German prisoners of war in France 1944 during the Second World War. Dated 20th Century

Russian soldiers engaged in feeding the 'liberated' Polish population with a plentiful supply of Bolshevik propaganda. The soldiers here are distributing Moscow newspapers to peasants near Vilna. Date: 1939

Warsaw Ghetto; the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II. It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory of occupied Poland. At its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there

04/30/1911. Events of San Feliu de Llobregat Victims of the Bloody Day - Riots between Carlists and Radicals.

Australia, Wounded waiting at Portable Hospital for evacuation

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. lights salmon stitch. undated

04/30/1937. The calm moments are taken advantage of by these militiamen to wash their clothes. (Uhp).

Anefo photo collection. Pollux 100 years. April 8, 1949

The people of Moscow are invited to see the bodies of those who have given their lives for the Revolution. Later they will be buried by the walls of the Kremlin.

Visit of Prince of Wales to Australia. January 01, 1920.

Anefo photo collection. Pictures from New Guinea, Hollandia massamental time. November 29, 1954. New Guinea

A Ninth Air Force Service Command Unit, B.T.G. -- An engineering officer at a P-38, lightning base of the 9th Air Force Service Command in B.T.G. has called his men together to read them in letter from a friend in the Infantry at the front in Normandy.These aircraft specialists, who keep the planes in the air, get real satisfaction out of the letter which goes all out in praise of the great job of the 9th Air Force fighters and bombers in giving direct support to our ground forces all along the

Atlantic Wall Tortoise -- Part of the "Iran ring around Europe" of German claim-not a tortoise, but a low turret gun mounted in the middle of a street in front of a cinema showing the film, "Blue Wave". The caption to this picture, just received in London ***** gun can fire in all direct ***** who dares put foot on this land *****. August 16, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

06/30/1913. Sinking and misfortune in Madrid. Appearance of the place on Embajadores Street where a steamroller sank, burying a man.

K. Cook ride of High class who as seriously injured. February 6, 1938.

Anefo photo collection. Capitulation: Harskamp camp where SS people and countrykeepers are convenient. Boxing match. June 1945. Gelderland, Harskamp

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Republic: Soekaboemi, Tjiakjoer and Buitenzorg. A device that is locked on a bar is released. December 13, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Camera Retrieved, Resumes Work - Associated Press Staff Photographer J. Walter Green, having retrieved his camera, goes to work on the rioter who knocked it to the ground (left), and right, goes about his business of making pictures of the two hour riot in Gorizia, Venezia-Giulia, August 9. August 20, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sinterklaas in Batavia / procession with cars. Zwarte Pieten on a pick-up truck during the Sint Nicolaas entry. December 4, 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Queen Victoria Eugenia in the Sierra de Guadarrama towards Exile (04/15/1931).

The Full Story Of The Fall Of Rostov -- A gun is being brought into the breach in the barricade to caver the next phase in the advance of the German infantry. These pictures tell the full story of the fall of Rostov of the violence of the attack, of the dogged resistance; how every street was turned into a stronghold from which the Russians exacted heavy tell of the attackers and how finally they have been overwhelmed by the sheer weight of metal. October 31, 1942. (Photo by Keystone).

Photograph showing Dutch civilians laying flowers on the gallows at Breendonck fort, Belgium, 1944. This fort, situated between Brussels and Antwerp, was used by Nazi security services during their occupation of Belgium between 1940-44. As such, it was the scene of many Nazi atrocities; the gallows shown had a long drop, designed to slowly strangle victims to death. Date: 1944

Red Prisoners in Koje Island Compound -- This is a view through barbed wire of Red prisoners in the Allied Koje island prison camp where Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, camp commandant, is being held as a hostage by prisoners. The Army announced today that Gen. Dodd was seized Wednesday by prisoners who dragged him into the stockade. This view, showing prisoners in Compound 93 getting food, was made March 15 after an outbreak of rioting among the prisoners. Red prisoners behind barbed wire in Koje Island prison camp where US soldiers put down riots with tear gas. May 08, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

H.R.H. Prince of Wales dedicating foundation stone on slope of Capital Hill where permanent, Parliament House will be built, June 1920. December 11, 1953. (Photo by Australian Official Photograph).

09/03/1917. Inauguration of the national shooting in Santander - SM El Rey Shooting with Mauser in the new field.

Anefo photo collection. Four Days Marches Apeldoorn. July 20, 1966. Apeldoorn, Gelderland

Anefo photo collection. Recovery: Amsterdam. Led by the Captain J. Breman, the 2nd Genius Compagnie in Amsterdam started recovery work of very far-reaching scope. Her task is to remove all traffic barriers in the city of Amsterdam as quickly as possible, including clearance work in the port. The work further exists by clearing up the gammoners in the streets, the gaps in the road surface, caused by wooden cubes, to close: flooded cellars empty, etc. Traffic barriers, so-called asparagus, which by Germans on different Places in Amsterdam were made and that mainly shapes a serious danger in the evening, cleans words by the 2nd genius Compagnie. June 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

10/14/1918. In the Docks barracks, in Madrid. Appearance of the patio during the extraordinary ranch Served yesterday to the Intendance Troops on the occasion of the feast of their Patroness, Saint Teresa.

Berlin Polish Jews Demonstrate Against "Oliver Twist" Film -- German police, armed with clubs, arresting one of the demonstrators (centre), before the "Kurbel" thetre, Berlin, February 21. Berlin polish Jews Made a second attack on the "Kurbel" Theatre in Berlin today February 21, in an effort to break up a scheduled performange of the British film "Oliver Twist". They maintain the picture, in which appears the notori ***** Jewish character Fagin, is anti-Semitig.After almost an hour of fighting in which police used firehouses and class, the commotion died and the show was called off. February 21, 1949. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Naples Woman Draws Water From Sewer -- Because the city's water supply system was so thoroughly destroyed by Nazis before Abandoning the city. Naples residents were reduced to dredging sewers to obtain water as this wounded and ragged woman is doing. October 03, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visiting 4th division of the Royal Netherlands Army. Queen at Schutterputje. September 27, 1961

Wilhelm II of Germany disembarking at Papadopoli palace, during a visit to Venice, Italy, photograph by A Tivoli, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 14, April 2, 1911.

Youth brigade workers learning to write 'Long Live Tito' in Yugoslavia.

Finska Flyktingar I HaParanda, Hösten 1944. Finska Personvagn Från State Railways, VR (Statsjärnvägarna).

08/31/1915. Tetouan. Submission of the Kabyles of Buist and Ain-Xixa. Lor Moros Sacrificing a Beef, as a symbol of Submission.-Approximate date.

01/31/1916. Enrique Borras in Melilla. The distinguished Actor (X), accompanied by the captain of the indigenous police Mr. Santacruz, visiting the souk.

A dockyard scene during the First World War showing munitions being hoisted aboard a battleship. Date: 1915

Anefo photo collection. Unveiling monument cases RAF kites. October 17, 1946

'La piraterie sous-marine; Un canot d epassagers du paquebot ARABIA, torpille par un sous-marin allemand, le 6 novembre 1916', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Vietnamese refugees in the US receive a visit from prominent figures such as actress Claudia Cardinale, former Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky, singer Rosemary Clooney, and former First Lady Betty Ford. This photograph was taken on May 8, 1975, during the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Blood Transfusion. A wounded American soldier gets a blood transfusion while assistants hover about the improvised cot. The scene is 'somewhere in New Guinea', 1943-1945

Postman Finds Sister, Dead-- Tony Accieoece, A postman at San Pietro, Italy, looks at the body of his sister who was killed by shellfire during the bitter fighting that eventually won the German stronghold for the Allied Fifth Army. December 31, 1943. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

K-Force Men Sail For Korea -- Troops of the first Battalion Middlesex regiment who sailed from Hong-Kong Aug. 25 with the first Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland highlanders, loading their equipment into trucks at Hong-Kong Aug. 25, for transfer to H.M.S. Ceylon and unicorn, the ship that carried the first 1,500-men of Britain's "K-Force" to Hong-Kong Aug. 25. September 13, 1950. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

With The Chinese Forces: The Fighting In Shantung -- Refugees seated on the front a locomotive of a train on the Lunghai Railway. The Japanese claim to have cut this railway at several points. June 27, 1938.

Blue Devils Visiting America - The chasseurs alpins are the elite mountain infantry of the French Army circa 1918.

Camouflage (See Also France & Germany) - Military Misc. August 23, 1942.

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Collaboration. Interior camp Veenhuizen. November 23, 1945. The Netherlands, Veenhuizen

Europe: August 27, 1914 The German ambulance division tending to its wounded

Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Soldiers go to the train for the trip from Ipoh to Butterworth. March 1946. Malacca, Malaysia

Madrid, December 1944. The students of the San Antón school have made an important donation of food, clothing and money to the campaign in favor of the suburbs.

Madrid, 11/13/1908. Madrid slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse cars during the riot that took place overnight. Unloading a car before striking unloaders.

Public execution near Płaszów-Prokocim train station on June 26, 1942.

World War Two: Japanese prisoners of War captured by US Forces at Okinawa 1945

07/29/1936. A large trench on the Grau road.

Spanish Civil War. Rebels shot in Casem of Montanas, Madrid. July 1936.

Duke In "Prisoners of War" Camp - The Duke of Gloucester opening the exhibition from behind barbed wire with a "German" Sentry on duty.H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, as president of the Red cross and St. John Fund, formally opened the prisoners of war exhibition for which his Majesty, the King has graciously permitted the use of the grounds of Clarence house, in the Mall. July 31, 1944. (Photo by P.N.A.).

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women painters at work on the exterior of the District Railway Station, Hammersmith.

Invalids' barracks with beds for 70 wounded or ill Volhynia.

A truckload of dead Chinese soldiers on the Nanyuan Road, killed by a hidden machine gun as they attempted to escort a general and three officers to safety. The soldiers lying outside the truck attempted to make the ditch at the side of the road. 8/25/37.

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