Historical Military Speeches

Vintage images featuring historical figures and events, including military speeches and training during significant periods like World War II.

General John Bruce Medaris is shown in a meeting with space architect Wernher von Braun at the headquarters for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and civilians visit a U.S. Army mobile exhibit.
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Dep - Sgt. F. Bradstreet. September 22, 1955.
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Vintage photograph. Man in white shirt and Navy cap and binoculars with strap around neck in front of cloud sky background looking off camera
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Koninklijke Navy
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Anefo photo collection. Command of Volkskrant: HR. E. Soetekouw. August 3, 1961
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Vintage photograph. portrait of new York firefighter climbing ladder
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Moshe Dayan (20 May 1915 - 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz, but he moved with his family in 1921, and he grew up on a moshav (Israeli village or settlement). As commander of the Jerusalem front in Israel's War of Independence, Chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953-58) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War, he became a fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. After being blamed for the army's lack of preparation before the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and for his failure of nerve during the war, he left the military and joined politics. As Foreign Minister Dayan played an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
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Members of the Far East Network, Iwakuni, take a break between news segments. Pictured, from left, are: SGT G. Klippel, SSGT E. Rodney, and CPL R. Jones. Base: Marine Corps Air Station,Iwakuni Country: Japan (JPN)
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Nottinghamshire (United Kingdom), January 1990. Interview with Syd Dernley, former executioner.
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World War Two: Sentimental French postcard for civilians to send to their men at the frontline.
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