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).
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).
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Disabled Iraqi ships block portions of a waterway during Operation Desert Storm.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Iraq(IRQ)
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The Camargue - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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DN-SN-87-12481. Base: Ceiba State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Winston Churchill - Gen. '49. March 16, 1949.
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37-mm gun from the 2nd World War, Peleliu Island, Micronesia, Palau, Oceania
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020114-N-8242C-010. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Zhawar Kili Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
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Anefo photo collection. Explosion on Soesterberg airbase, the smoldering remains of the hangar. August 2, 1966. Soesterberg, Utrecht
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I Karlskrona damage shoulder carrier.Karlskrona (pictured - name)
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Verdun , France , 1917 - North of France, Belgium - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (September 1-5) (French - Verdun , France). School establishment, ruins, front, bombardment, courtyard, rubble, Teaching, First World War, Verdun, 380 shell hole (School of rue de la Belle Virgin)
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Anefo photo collection. Repatriation Camp Rheine (Germany). Buses with anti-lice powder and flash spraying. 1945. Germany, Rheine
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This graphite drawing depicting U.S. Marines was created on 11X 17 Hot Press paper. This artwork was created as a training tool for creating texture in a drawing. Nov.3, 2012, Fort George G. Meade, MD.
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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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Smaldeel 1, with the commander of the marine forces (BDZ) vice admiral H.H.L. Pröpper (1906-1995) A / B from the flagship Kruiser Hr.Ms. The seven provinces (C 802), visited Copenhagen at the end of October 1958. Passenitizing sailors visit a Danish Museum in Copenhagen.
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I Karlskrona damage shoulder carrier.Karlskrona (pictured - name)