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Archive images showing military logistics, equipment, and supplies during past conflicts, emphasizing resource management in wartime.

Photo collection First World War. Laying railways. English train with soldiers and railways .. 1914-1918}

The American Army in France during the First World War New American tractor is used for hauling long range guns, 28th Division, St Gilles.

Ostend, Belgium: September 11, 1914 A Belgian bicycle corps firing at German Uhlans engaged in making raids on the outskirts of Ostend.

Kaiser Karl I. in Calliano, 16.1.1917 In January 1917 Kaiser Karl I visits the front in South Tyrol

Belgian people evacuating in front of the German invasion, 1914, Belgium, Europe

Men on the way by train to the front line, 1914, France, Europe

Elsevier photo collection. Car Captain Der Infantry Becking drops mud. Infantry Java (Weltevreden). 1926. Indonesia, Java, 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.

09/30/1934. Revolution of Asturias. Cannons and Tanks of the Revolutionaries.

British Artillery in Action in World War I

American military personnel from the Automotive Section, Council of National Defense, photographed in May 1918 during World War I. The image is from the U.S. Submarine Base in Npr Lavpon Cass and is labeled for official use only.

War album 95, picture 28164.

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Printing Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0622. 1956

Troop - Ecuries and discounts. Barracks firefighters from Jean-Jacques Rousseau street and rue of the day, 1st arrondissement, Paris. Barracks firefighters from Jean-Jacques Rousseau Street and rue of the day. Paris (IER ARR.). Photography French photographic union. Album paper. 1895-1897.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch troops practice in West Germany. September 13, 1951. B.R.D., Germany

Wilsons at the front

Richmond, Virginia. Whitworth gun on wharf awaiting shipment. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

British Navy armoured train, First World War, 1914, (c1920). 'The Handy Man Ashore: one of the British Navy's armoured trains at the Front'. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

Inherited Ital. Support at Musile A.D. Piave 17.6.18. .

Photograph of Disinfecting the Clothing of Russian Prisoners during World War One. Dated 1915

Photo collection First World War. German artillery crosses the pontoon bridge at Missy sur Aisne. {1914-1918}. France, Missy

Moroccan War, August 1909. Melilla Campaign. A cannon firing.

Inspection by his imperial Highness Prince Oskar von Preussen, Narajow & Hinowice.

The Austrians provided their troops with a mobile cinema during World War I. One wagon carried an orchestra and one carried a light projector. The entertainment was transported around the camps at the Front to improve the morale of the battalions. Date: 1916

General Mastero and Italian men at the entrance of a trench at the front in the Dolomites; Entrée des Tranchées The premiere Ligne (2,000 mètres). Le Général de Division Mastero (4th Armée) .. Photo taken at 2000 meters. Diviseneral Mastero from the fourth army in the middle. Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian Front 1916.

Three men pull a cart. Three men with exposed top pull a cart. A barrack in the background. On the back of the German inscription. Photo associated with album 'Kriegservernerungen'.

RAF Exhibition of aircraft guns and bombs, Lord Mayor's Show, London, 9 November 1918

12/31/1914. A family of villagers from northern France, prisoners of the Germans.

Royal Air Force Maintenance Command, 1939-1945. 250-lb MC bombs being transported out of No. 21 Maintenance Unit at Fauld, near Hanbury, Staffordshire, by light railway.

Karl I observes the progress of counter-openive in Galicia, which continued from mid-July to early August. Here he is on 23 July with the commander-in-chief of the German South Army General Felix of Bothmer in the front area. .

Bief of the Cordelières, at the turn of the Passage Moret (1911). Bief of the Cordelières, at the turn of the passage Moret, 13th arrondissement, Paris. Bief of the Cordelières, at the turn of the passage Moret. Paris (XIIIth Arr.). Anonymous photography. Gélatino-Chloride draw. 1911.

King Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947) with Generals Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928) and Carlo Porro (1854-1939) in Lower Isonzo, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 38, September 17, 1916.

Deactivated British tank, anonymous, 1917 - 1918 photograph Belgium (possibly) baryta paper gelatin silver print warfare; military affairs (+ armoured vehicle, tank). modern forms of military vehicles (TANK) Belgium

Photograph of the salute of seventy minute guns being fired as Scotland mourns King George's death

Presentation of the Minister of Defense Staff of a number of manual marris minor passenger cars adapted to disabled soldiers at the military rehabilitation center in Austerlitz.

Horse pital of Poniczew. (17 / II.1918.) Cadaver recovery. .

World War I, women delivering food to soldiers on a German troop train, 1916

A crowd of ships laden with sailors and soldiers

Paris (8th arr.), France statue of Lille decorated with a French flag and cannons taken from the Germans exhibited Place de la Concorde , (French - Paris ( VIIIe arr. ) , France Statue de Lille décorée d' un drapeau français et canons pris aux Allemands exposés place de la Concorde). Statue, trophy, sculpture, canon, peace, bombardment, place, armistice, flag, Art, First World War, France, Paris, Place de la Concorde Statue de Lille

British armoured vehicle, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Artist: Unknown

Sch.regiment 33 Zarzecie am Stairs Feldtelefondienst.

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.

A photograph of First World War soldiers reading The Tatler 'somewhere in France', for a little light relief. Date: 22nd December 1915

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. The British advance in the West. Bringing up a nurse balloon to fill up with gas the big observation balloon. 1914-1918}

Norwegian prisoners of war, released from the Nazi detention camp Grini after Germany's capitulation. Here at Charlottenberg station.

Cable crampling in ginsta, Gnarp 1923. From the left, Järvström, Per Viktor Ek, Clas Wennberg, Olle Djärn, Helmer Hallenius, Per Hedlund and Hugo Hjelm. Photo Hugo Hjelm.

The Naval Fire Brigade

37 M/M AA in traveling position , Armories, Ordnance industry, Military vehicles, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

French Foreign legion soldiers in Tonkin, Vietnam, 1910

Santander, 08/12/1917. Railway strike. Station services at the Madrid post office exit, performed by soldiers.

Escape of the villagers during the German advance, France, World War I, from l'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLV, No 17, April 28, 1918.

A large gun on gun carriage stands outside colonial style buildings, possibly near the harbour in Mombasa. Original manuscript caption: 4th German Naval Gun Captured nr Massi by the K.A.R.

German field bakery on march

War album 95, picture 28345.

French army's heavy artillery piece on railway in 1917.

German railway troops Firmbahnzug in the cut

7th Regt entraining

Colonial Secretary Telis House ***** -- Picture received today showing an Arab lorry driver, suspected of carrying arms, being searched by a British Soldier, outside one of the military outposts on the Jericho road.Yesterday afternoon Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary told the house of Commons that the position in Palestine had "seriously deteriorated" and that in view of this more troops were being rushed out from England and India. Owing to the many attacks on convoys of lorries and the shooting of their Jewish drivers, British troops have established military outposts on various parts of the long roads which run from the Mediterranean coast to the Dead Sea. All those wishing to pass are searched as are their lorries before they are allowed to proceed. June 10, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).

The balloon Intrepid being inflated to reconnoiter the Battle of Fair Oaks during the USA Civil War

14' Rifle M1907 , Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Risk information service own, photo number 156-0490. 1956

On deck of U.S. gunboat Hunchback | Library of Congress

Turner. .

Boer War: soldiers checking the contents of crates of medical supplies. Halftone, c.1900.

Removal of a captured Italian 26cm shipyard in the forest of Monte Rover. .

A cartload of scarce coal, occupied Paris, January 1941. Artist: Unknown

French hospital train in France during World War one

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Train accident Tjikempek. Tjikempek: During the afternoon of 23 June, due to sabotage on the line, the Batavia-Bandung train. Immediately after D derailment, the train was shot through a gang equipped with firearms, resulting in several dead and wounded. Almost immediately after the accident, storage teams to recover, to restore the track section that was broken into a length of 1 km. The clearance work in full swing. 24 June 1948. Cikempek, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Visit to Kaiser Karl in Trent: Reception. .

The caption for this photo that dates to between 1914 and 1917 (time of the First World War) reads: Steel turret for trench use devised by Germans. The French advance in Champagne resulted in the capture of several steel turrets like the one in this photograph. They were made of three-inch plate, could be revolved, and each held a 50-millimetre gun and three gunmen.

Seminarians from Rodrigo city on pilgrimage to Zaragoza, 1940.

Erzherzog Leopold Salvator in Creino.

Constitutionalist fighters fix the railway tracks damaged by the federalists, Mexico, photograph from the magazine L'Illustration, year 72, no 3714, May 2, 1914.

Anefo photo collection. Historical procession in Middelburg. 24 June 1948. Middelburg, Zeeland

Black and white photograph of the Allies coming to save Belgium and the Netherlands; motorcycles coming from northern routes.

Hangars at the airfields in the locations of the 10th Army Command. Army commands. Inside view. .

Soldiers. dogs for trasporting water and marsala. 1916.

12' gun. Ft. Wadsworth

American troops crowded on German transatlantic Leviathan, formerly Vaterland, that takes soldiers from the United States of America, to France, First World War, photograph from the magazine L'Illustration, year 76, no 3933, July 20, 1918.

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Casualty transport wagon. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

Military assistance to the population affected by floods of Florence. Water purifier Aqua Vita by 11 geniusbataljon.

01/01/1922. Alfonso Xiii in Cordoba.

Large Personnel Carrier

German Rapid Cannon, photo from L'Illustration, No 3266, September 30, 1905.

Refugees From advancing Chinese Communist armies set up makeshift housekeeping in Shanghai's North Station. These Nationalist soldiers from the Nanking garrison were retreating with their families southward to Canton. February 09, 1949.

French sapeurs-pompiers with their engine at the site of a fire. Date: circa 1900

Signal corp in action , Military personnel, Signals, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Italy. health officer against flies. 1910-20.

Signal corp in action , Military personnel, Signals, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

THE MAXIM GUN used by Petty Officers of the Royal Navy's HMS 'Excellent' Date: 1895

08/31/1915. The Germans at War. Field Kitchens Used by German Troops in France. (near Reims) Photo: R. Parrondo.

Red Cross Emergency Ambulance station of the District of Columbia Chapter, during Influenza Epidemic, Washington, D.C., USA, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, October 1918

Russia 1920Kostya Zabelin, a Red soldier on the Western Front during the Russian Revolution.

The transportation by steam engine of a German German self-propelled siege howitzer mortars ("M&#x1b2ce5;r") - WWI. Pictured crossing through a manned checkpoint on the way to the front. Date: 1915

Vom westlichen Kriegsschauplatz. Durchzug deutscher Kolonnen durch das völlig zerstörte Vigneulles.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Destruction and pillage , France, World War, 1914-1918 , Transportation , German

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