Historical Military Operations

Images depicting various military-related scenes from the Dutch East Indies and World War II, including landscapes, disaster sites, and remnants of wartime activities.

Captured "Flying Bomb" Site: A U.S. Army engineer examines a camouflaged concrete emplacement adjoining the longer launching ramp of the type built by the Nazis in France for launching pilotless planes against Britain. The main ramp is 700 to 750 feet long, 50 feet thick and 70 feet wide with a slight elevation pointing 10 degrees north of due west. An extension joins it at right angles and is 300 feet long, 120 feet wide and 36 feet deep. The whole construction is of reinforced concrete. The installation was captured by American troops of the allied expeditinary force advancing through Normandy to Cherbourg. July 18, 1944. (Photo by United States Offices Of War Information Photograph).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Table Jongengradja and Katjoeagoeng (Palembang). Tree trunks are on the edge of a slope. Spores left by a carrier. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Captured "Flying Bomb" Site: A U.S. Army engineer examines a camouflaged concrete emplacement adjoining the longer launching ramp of the type built by the Nazis in France for launching pilotless planes against Britain. The main ramp is 700 to 750 feet long, 50 feet thick and 70 feet wide with a slight elevation pointing 10 degrees north of due west. An extension joins it at right angles and is 300 feet long, 120 feet wide and 36 feet deep. The whole construction is of reinforced concrete. The installation was captured by American troops of the allied expeditinary force advancing through Normandy to Cherbourg. July 18, 1944. (Photo by United States Offices Of War Information Photograph).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tangerang. Failed recording. July 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Tangerang

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Padellarang - Flight disaster. The flight disaster at PADALARANG. Overview of the place of disaster .. 11 February 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padellarang

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. "Slaughter Pen" on left wing. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Bridge repair from the road to Malang, inscription at Villa Singosari. Undermined rail bridge. November 4, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

12/31/1936. The second line of the Iron Belt.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Recording made in a Bren carrier. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Booty captured by German tank personnel Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

'Les nouveaux decors de la guerre: canon de 240 camoufle', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

North Sydney. January 02, 1942.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting tjilatjap. A strange inundation. In tjilatjap, the tni were fired by, among other things, sugar storage sites. The result was that the areas of the port complex through the stream of melted sugar blank - or rather: stroop brown - were set. August 1948. Cilacap, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Purification actions around Medan. Medan-brostagi. Purification campaign in the Medan area. Roadblock on the piso piso flock. The road to a depth of six meters has been opened over a distance of 35 meters. October 13, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Cheribon. Cheribon. A Dutch soldier looks at the broken bridge at Kadneede. July 22, 1947. Cheribon, Cirebon, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Marines from the Training and Audiovisual Support Center crawl under barbed wire toward "enemy" positions during combat awareness training. Base: Bellows Air Force Base, Oahu State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Korean War. American soldiers hidden in a cave are captured by Chinese People's volunteers.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Israel soldiers in a Jeep during the War of independence 1948

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Series Borneo; Book Borneo. Soldiers and Dajaks view content of crates. June 1948. Borneo, Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Medan, Malang, Linggadjati. Malang. The European cemetery in Lawang was violated by the TNI. Sacing layers overlooked, graves were broken open. August 1948. Indonesia, Java, Malang, Dutch East Indies

Art.BOB.Stand.Des 12cm siegebatt.im Combination section of Infreg.no.8. .

Anefo photo collection. Dutch farmers are going to set up a company in France. World War II, Agriculture. August 1945. France

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Cheribon. Parade, various topics Tjikempek. A cabin in a kampong. October 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Brastagi. On their arrival in Brastagi, our troops did a lurid find. In a mass grave, 18 mutilated seem were found. Elsewhere in the village, 40 terrible mutilated seem to be found from other victims of the TNI. August 22, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Japanese Advance In Malaya, Infiltration Troops In Mountain Pass -- The latest picture from the battle-front at Malaya show the advance of the Japanese troops through the mountain passes of Malaya. In this picture can be seen infiltration troops coming through a gorge in Malaya. May 20, 1942. (Photo by Keystone).

Anefo photo collection. Aerial recording of a landing of single landing ships, on the coast of North Africa at Casablanca. 1945

Armorship boosts.Sweden (depicted - name)

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Anefo photo collection. Test exercise of the army on rented terrain, two AMX vehicles for a farm. December 9, 1964

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Incredged trench.

'Apres la reprise du Fort de Douaumont; fosse Nord-Ouest-Sud-Ouest vu du coffre Nord-Ouest', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916". (After the recapture of Fort Douaumont; North-West-South-West pit seen from the North-West)

An interior view of damage caused to the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV41) in a collision with the Panamanian freighter CACTUS. Base: Naval Station, Subic Bay State: Luzon Country: Philippines (PHL)

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Slamatan and Sports Party in Pendopo S.V.Petroleum Me Sumatra. Pendopo: a slamatan was held at Pendopo at Palembang on the occasion of transferring the first oil from S.P.P. Me. To pendopo to the refinery at Palembang. A buffalo head is buried .. October 25, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Pendopo, Sumatra

Woerner Eugen (herr) Collection Shell hole in a cemetery on the Flanders Front. (Defensive Battle in Flanders, July - September 1917)

Combat training of soldiers at the Bloemendaal Stormschool.

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap Canal. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Train accident Poerwakarta. Friday afternoon, October 22, 1948, the Express train Batavia-Bandoeng is located at 4.50 pm two kilometers south of Poerwakarta, at Bendoel, as the rails had broken up through a gang terrorists over a distance of twenty meters. Immediately after the derailment, the train was taken under fire by the automatic weapons and guns, manned of an estimated fifty man, so that eight people were killed and twenty-three injured. Because a significant number of soldiers increased by train, the fire from the gang could almost immediately be answered. This prevents worse. Overview of the derailed wagons. October 23, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. A wall has been broken. Destruction Church?. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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.

Hurricane 'Betsy' - Puerto Rico - 8/12/1956 , Buildings, Construction, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Fort Pulaski, Georgia. The breach | Library of Congress

Toledo 10/22/1992. Wind Storm and Fallen Trees.

Anefo photo collection. Fire in German Consulate, Lairessestraat Amsterdam. Firefighters with gas mask in burnt interior. February 9, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

04/30/1917. On the Macedonian front. A Serbian soldier firing a heavy caliber mine launcher.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tegal. Tegal. The genius brings spring loads to explosive to leveling the river bank into an exit to the bridge that lies in the river. July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Tegal

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Padang. Failed photo. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padang, Sumatra

Post in the well-covered trench, section PEVMA.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Ruins Of German Fort In Liberated Cherboug -- U.S. aerial bombardment and artillery fire destroyed this German fort, one of the last to surrender in Cherboug to the overwhelming American blows that liberated the deep-water port. The fort was one of the installations of the Atlantic Wall which Hitler claimed were impregnable. The allies breached the vaunted defenses on the northern coast of France, June 6, 1944. Allied engineers immediately started clearance and reconstruction of Cherbourg harbor

Folly Island, South Carolina. Bomb and splinter proof of General Gillmore's works. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

'Le theatre de la victoire Serbe; Sur les pentes du Kaimaktchalan: les elements de tranchees d'ou nos allies s'elancerent pour emporter la crete', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Cheribon. Cheribon. In primary school, this toy weapons were found in the primary school for the "theory gun". July 22, 1947. Cheribon, Cirebon, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.

An infanterist is about to throw a (exercise) hand grenade.

Trench showing ledge at Base Housing Project , Excavation. Photographs of the First Naval District

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Frightened by the noise of battle, a Nazi covers in his funkhole near Emmerich, and covers his ears while montgomery's heavy guns blast the German positions and Allied armour thunders above him to the receding front. March 31, 1945. (Photo by Gaiger, Planet)

Major Project. 1940-02-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

mud fields of Flanders during the prolonged World War One, During the Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 22 April ñ 25 May 1915 for control of the strategic Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium

Anefo photo collection. Ambonians occupying home of Indonesian ambassador, Wassenaar. August 31, 1970. Wassenaar, South Holland

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.

Prince Carl bottom damage.Prince Carl (pictured - name)

Machine Guns Silenced. This image depicts dead Japanese soldiers in a machine gun nest on Ebeye Island, Kwajalein Atoll, painted by Coast Guard Combat Artist Ken Riley.

Food of the remainder at the attack on Pasubio Fallen Comrades Lieutenant. zgt.d.glstbe. Johann Fallada, 2.7.1916. .

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

A photograph taken by a French dragoon showing a fellow soldier struck by a German bullet while on reconnaissance duty in the Forest of Champenoux. Another soldier is firing at the German snipers from behind a tree. The soldier survived this shoulder wound. Date: May 29th 1915

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Airships will be used for reconnoitring enemy positions and movements Date: 1907

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

July 21, 1897. The camp at the "Eagle's" landing site. The slabs are pointed for departure. Production of the pictures was made by Associate Professor John Hertzberg in 1930 in photography, Technical College.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sport exercises Depot Special troops. Soldier does falling on a white sheet. June 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

The fireman (depicted - name).The fireman (depicted - name)

The Entertainment in the British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Kinmen Island Taiwan. April 27, 1955. (Photo by United Press Photo).

06/30/1916. The War in Northern France: Abandoned Trenches as the Enemy Approaches.

Unknown persons damaged and smeared the memorial for the Nazi victims in the Bittermark here on 12.04.1976 with runes of the right-wing radical Viking Youth, SS runes and a swastika in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Effect of a shell on a Confederate. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Original caption: "Santa Ysabel - Winslow Couro, Spokesman. Fire truck tank - stock trough.". 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

Normandie Loses Her Funnels: The toppled former queen of the seas as wrecking crews dismantle her once famous tear drop funnels as she lies in the slip. Meanwhile, investigations are proceeding to determine the cause of the disastrous fire. February 27, 1942. (Photo by New York Times Photo).

Feb. 26, 2012 - Trans-Canada Airliner crashed near Montreal. 11/30/63 Site of the tragedy. One of the worst in aviation history, 118 persons died. Plane and bodies practically pulverized.

Shattered by German guns: Fort Wavre Sainte Catherine, near Antwerp. Date: P

Antietam, Maryland. A Confederate soldier who after being wounded had evidently dragged himself to a little ravine on the hillside where he died | Library of Congress

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