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

Anefo photo collection. Mn Merchant Navy / Anefo London series. Caption "Teaching Apparatus Gunny School" exercise device artillery school. August 1943. Britain

Men Of Britain's Royal Naval Minelayers "Sow" For Victory -- Duffle-coated sailors pushing mines to the stern ready for laying.Among the often unrecognized heroes of the sea are the men of the Royal Naval Minelayers who night after night slip out to sea in their little ships and lay minefields round Britain's shores or at the approached to enemy shores. April 13, 1942. (Photo by Planet News Ltd.).

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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Eretan-Wetan at Indramajoe (for yearbook of 3-1 R.I.). Soldier sets up his Kepi for the mirror. 19 April 1948. Eretan-Lettan, Indonesia, Indramaju, Dutch East Indies

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Vintage Photograph. Male arms turning ship helm with clouds in background.

U.S. Army Train Ambush Scene, on-set of the Film, "Brass Target", MGM, United Artists, 1978

Traffic Control (N.S.W. Police) - Police. August 03, 1939.

Vintage photograph. Policeman blowing whistle while holding up hand

Italian machine gunners wearing oxygen masks in a bomber, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVIII, No 38, September 21, 1941.

Soldiers pose below an atomic cloud at the Nevada Proving Ground. Soldiers conducted maneuvers in the vicinity of nuclear tests in 1951. (BSLOC_2015_2_15)

Railway police reportage. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

A member of the 8th Special Operations Squadron participates in a night Fulton recovery mission aboard a 1ST Special Operations Wing MC-130E Hercules Combat Talon aircraft during the joint service exercise Ocean Venuture '92. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '92 Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Disappearing in perspective to a pin-point, this 1,400 feet covered walks connects various sections of a £1,000,000 U.S. military hospital built in New South Wales by the Allied Works Council. June 23, 1943. (Photo by Allied Works Council).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Soekaradja and Tasikmalaja. Tasikmalaja: Genists of the 1st Pel. 13 Cion. Fieldgenia hit an 80 m. Long bailey bridge of special construction over the Kali at Sukaradja, near Sukaradja, near Tasikmalaja. 26 December 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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