Historical Military Scenes

Black-and-white images depicting military and wartime activities, including jungle warfare, art recovery, Morse Code training, and humanitarian efforts. Evocative and dramatic.

Native warriors running through jungle and tripping on banana leaves

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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Borneo (1947 February). Soldiers on a ship. February 1947. Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies

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Unknown location. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.

Close-Up of the 75 mm. gun of a General Grant tank, showing tracer shells leaving the muzzle of the gun. The picture was taken during exercises at an Army Fighting Vehicles School somewhere in Australia. January 18, 1943.

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