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Historical Military Vehicles

Features various military tanks, including British and Russian models from World War II, illustrating their operational history and combat roles.

First Pictures of the New British Mortar Tank - An Avre moves up to the front in France.The work of designing and constructing the devices to breach the stupendous fortifications of the Atlantic Wall was put in hand by the War Office under the direction of the Engineer-in-Chief in 1943. The main equipment of the Assault Royal Engineers which contributed to the initial breach of the Atlantic Wall was the Armoured Vehicle (Royal Engineers) known as the AVRE. The vehicle in general is similar to a Churchill tank. The interior has been specially designed to accomodate a crew of Engineer together with specially guarded explosive charges for assault demolition. November 26, 1944. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC A-Division Surabaya Presentation of weapons and vehicles. KNIL soldiers posing on a Sherman tank. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya

British Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1939-45 Infantry Tank Mk IV Churchill III (A22)

Photograph of Infantry and Anti-tank gunners in the Knightsbridge fighting. Dated 1942

Vickers Light Tank Mk II (A4E13 - A4E15).

The Blitz--Made in U.S.A . - With the Second Army In Louisiana -- Mechanized Warfare of the 94' variety comes to ***** 15 NA As M-3 medium tanks of uncle Sam's First armored division, supported by a-20 attack planes working in close cooperation overhead, Blast their way past defending 37-millimeter Anti-tank gun near Castor, Louisiana. Thesemaneuvers, stressing one of the greatest lessons of the European war - the importance of close cooperation between air and land forces - are preparing the Army's first armored division for the gigantic war games next week between the second and third armies. September 14, 1941. (Photo by ACME).

British Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles 1939-45 Cruiser Mk I (A9)

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Exercise with a fire sprayer at the police school in Suriname. October 1955. Suriname

Anefo photo collection. Royal Dutch Brigade Princess Irene training. 25-Ponder position. June 1944. Britain

Mussolini At Italian Manoeuvres.Signor Mussolini photographed as he watched one of the new motor tanks of the Italian army negotiating a rocky stretch of ground near Naples during the manoeuvres. September 03, 1936. (Photo by Keystone)

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visiting 4th division of the Royal Netherlands Army. Prince on tank wearing his rose. September 27, 1961

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Retrieving to Fort van der Capellen and Fort de Kock (Anei-gorge). Humber armored car passes a geimpprovised wooden bridge. December 29, 1948. Batusangkar, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Inspection Colonel Sluyter (U-Brigade). Tank crew poses for a column tanks of the 1st eskadron fighter trucks knil. November 7, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Kemajoran, Dutch East Indies

In battle dress overalls Mr. Eden inspects tanks during a large scale military exercise. October 01, 1942. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

A Marine sits in one of the crew stations of an M-110A2 203mm self-propelled howitzer during a firepower demonstration. Country: Unknown

DM-SC-87-12156. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. International Harvester TD 24 operation. undated. Guinea

An American tank in the jungle of the Solomon Islands, September 1942. Artist: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Armical in the Vlasakkers in Amersfoort, HOUWITSER 175 m for new American guns. May 5, 1965. Amersfoort

A delegation from the Council of Ministers pays a visit to the 3rd group of arms (3 GGW) in Blomberg. Here a loader transporter loaded with basic Hawk Missiles.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Miscellaneous and sworn officers of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in Tjikempek. Tjikempek. Eleven officers of the 2nd Infantry Brigade group were taught in Velde. The carriers and cannons in Linie prepared on the Beetigingsveld .. October 3, 1947. Cikempek, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Palestine disturbances 1936. Railroad escort on the hault. 1936

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-1088. 1956

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC General Doorman visits Bandoeng. Ltd Head Workplace 81 in Bandoeng? Maintenance of an M2 Stuart tank. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC farewell parade 3rd infantry brigade group. Traffic jam. March 10, 1947. Batavia, Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Construction of an airfield for No. 3 Group RAF at Witchford, Cambridgeshire: three bulldozers levelling the ground with scrapers.

12 inch railway howitzer Dickebusch 14061916

Anefo photo collection. Demonstration of existing and newly developed military vehicles at the Oirschot training ground at Eindhoven demonstration with new type of armored car "YP408". June 16, 1959. Oirschot

Anefo photo collection. Old soldiers employ another day at Amersfoort section. April 24, 1956. Amersfoort

Training for Home Defence. 1st Light Tank Company firing at a moving target at 600 yards range whilst moving at high speed itself. This range practice near Sydney is one of the concluding exercises of the unit in three months intensive. November 13, 1940. (Photo by Hood).

Exclusive Pictures Of Tanquettes Demonstration In Wiltshire -- A heavy tank crossing the River Avon near Amesbury by means of wooden "stepping stones", during the demonstration which was given by the newly Experimental Mechanized Force for the benefit of staff college officers. June 20, 1939.

Royal Horse Artillery Demonstration At Aldershot: A light 3.7 Howitzer going into action. The Royal Horse Artillery this morning gave a demonstration at Aldershot, for the benefit of students at the Staff College, Camberley. March 21, 1938. (Photo by Keystone)

A camouflaged M-60A1 tank from the 8th Marines advances during an exercise. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Second World War. Soviet Union. Battle breaks. Through a village rolling tank

French Cavalry Officers School. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

A three-centurion combat tanks of 41 tankbattaljon regiment hussars Prince Alexander pass the Deignelpunt with, among others, H.M. Koningin Juliana and Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard during the parade in Ede on the occasion of Liberation Day.

Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger is taken by jeep to inspect the LVTP-7 command tracked landing vehicle, self-propelled howitzers and M-60A1 tanks. This heavy equipment is staged on both sides of the roadway. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Stalingrad, Russia: 1942. Columns of Nazi tanks advance across the barren plains towards Stalingrad in Russia. The photograph is from a captured Nazi newsreel.

Picture taken at manoeuvres in Egypt, show the Australian men and machines preparing for their Western Desert advance. Australians in Bren carriers, moving up in battle formation to the assault.Australians on manoeuvres in Egypt prepare for their Western Desert advance. January 1, 1941.

British Infantry Take A Ridge - An Action In The 8th Army's Big Fight British infantry running past a knocked out enemy tank.Enemy tanks attacked in an attempted to dislodge British troops from a newly gained fire, at least one being knocked out and the others retiring. The British troops, not content with this, themselves took a ridge to prevent the enemy from again attacking behind it. A small action in the midst of the 8th army's victorious battle in the desert. February 08, 1943. (Photo by British Official Photo).

Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the British Army 1939-45 Churchill Ark Mk II bridging vehicle (UK pattern)

Look To The Skies -- Alerted for Action, a skysweeper gun crew stands ready for firing orders from battery headquarters. They are members of battery a, 531st antiaircraft artillery battalion, Fort Bliss, Texas. December 02, 1954. (Photo by Official U.S. Army Photo).

Armical on the occasion of Liberation Day in the Vlasakkers in Amersfoort.

A number of soldiers on an M577A1 armored punch command vehicle during the framework exercise Cold start of 53 armored infantry brigade, Deurne mobilization complex.

Tanks in front of the Cathedrals of Smolensk Operation Barbarossa - German Invasion of Russia, 1941 - 15th Infantary Division of the Thuringia-Kurhessen Division

Image of v.l.n.r. Pte. Blakely (C79060), ws. Pte. Picken (E30433), Pte. Wade or pte. Brown, pte. Green (driver, C48690), pte. Wade or pte. Brown and Sgt. Denny (C54288) van de Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division in the Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) T96080 on the Rijksweg 22 in Utrecht on the Memorial D-Day Parade; In the background some buildings of the Kromhoutkazerne.n.b. The street name Rijksweg 22 was changed in Waterlinieweg in 1993.

Algerian Desert Maneuvers. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Tanks and Afvs of the British Army 1939-45 Humber Mk IV armoured car

Anefo photo collection. Ambonians occupying home of Indonesian ambassador, Wassenaar. August 31, 1970. Wassenaar, South Holland

French Army Returns To France -- A French women throws flowers as a tank of the 2nd. French Armoured Division rumbles through the streets. The French Army has returned to France to join the Allied Expeditionary Force in driving the Nazia from the country. October 23, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Official Photograph).

Soldiers aboard a personnel tracked landing vehicle (LVTP7) while participating in the joint US/Honduras field training Exercise AHUAS TARA II (BIG PINE). Subject Operation/Series: AHUAS TARA II (BIG PINE) Country: Honduras (HND)

A Panamanian man smiles at some Marines from Company D, 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion, as they ride past him aboard an LAV25 light armored vehicle during Operation ROUGH RIDER, a route reconnaissance patrol. Country: Panama (PAN)

DM-SN-89-01617. Country: Philippines (PHL)

Anefo photo collection. Parent day in Kazerne in Vught, see 26630/31. April 2, 1948. Noord-Brabant, Vught

A portable power generator in use during the multiservice, multinational Operation URGENT FURY. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

Three famous Allied tanks respected by the Axis during the Second World War: the Churchill, the Sherman and the General Grant. Date: 1943

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Armored armor and trolley in action to the south-east of Solo. Armored jeep called 'Annie-Patsy' 04-9433 drives into perforated steel plates over a muddy road. 28 March 1949. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Solo

Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. A military exercise. A river must be crossed. 1945

Infantry tank Mk IV - Churchill Mk VII Infantry tank Mk IV Churchill VII

Anefo photo collection. Army exercise in Germany. Centurion tanks from the 41st battalion on the rise. October 12, 1961. Germany

Anefo photo collection. Visit Hare Majesty Queen Dutch troops Seedorf surroundings BRD; Veldartillerie. August 20, 1986. Germany, Seedorf

Third Tank Battalion Marine M-60A1 tanks depart from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC School Reserve officers Infantry (S.R.O.i.) in Bandoeng. Armshire racing vehicle of an eskadron fighting trucks. June 1947. Bandoeng, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Photo collection Government information service. Front Noord-Oost Nederland: Enschede - Hengelo Battle and Liberation Achterhoek (1 April 1945), Enschede (April 1, 1945), Hengelo (3 April 1945). Tank and armored vehicles purify an enemy statement 3 km. from Hengelo. April 1945. Enschede, Hengelo, Overijssel

Anefo photo collection. Front Noord-Oost Nederland: Enschede - Hengelo Battle and Liberation Achterhoek (1 April 1945), Enschede (April 1, 1945), Hengelo (3 April 1945). British combat action in Hengelo. April 3, 1945. Hengelo, Overijssel, Twente

CPL Charles Henry, right, of Co. A, 1ST Light Armored Vehicle Battalion, explains some of the features of the LAV-25 light armored vehicle to VADM Prasert Noikamsiri, commandant of the Royal Thai Marine Corps, during the commandant's one-day visit to the center. Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

French Cavalry Officers School. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Watch Yank Armor Roll By -- A German boys sits at the side of a road in Zwisten,Germany, awed by the Spectacle of ninth armored Division tanks of U.S. First Army move through the town. April 9, 1945. (Photo by William C. Allen, Associated Press Photo).

World War Two: German army postcard showing German army panzer tanks in Russia, 1942

The Coast Guard Lands 'Em. Poised aboard a Coast Guard-manned landing craft, a Marine Corps tank is ready to roll down the ramp into action against Japs holding fortified positions in the Marshall Islands. Expert Coast Guard coxswains and boat crews run these amphibious taxis to the enemy beaches in South Pacific invasion operations.

Armored car Humber (4x4), equipped with a 37 mm cannon. English design and manufacture. O.A. Deployed in the Dutch East Indies.

Doberdo plateau. ITL.20.5cm ship's gun. (End of April 1918.).

Anefo photo collection. Exercise "Storm spring" West Germany, shooting with atomic cannon. September 15, 1955. Germany

Sprilling attempts at the Russian war showplatz.

An LVTP-7 tracked landing vehicle heavily laden with gear and troops moves across the snow-covered countryside during Operation Alloy Express '82. Subject Operation/Series: ALLOY EXPRESS '82 Country: Norway (NOR)

Three M-49 tanker trucks, left, and three M-88 armored recovery vehicles sit on a dock prior to being loaded aboard a cargo ship. The vehicles are assigned to the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized). Country: Unknown

An XM-723 mechanized infantry vehicle is offloaded from a YC-15 aircraft during a heavy loading test. Base: Yuma State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. two photos. undated

A studbedbaker WEASEL M-29C amphibious track vehicle with excellent driving properties in snow and mud. Probably it concerns tests in the army here.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Farewell parade British Indian tank regiment 13th Lancers. Pilee of caterpillar vehicles. General E.C. Mansergh brings military greeting. August 1, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

The Drive Through Burma -- A Lull in the fighting South of Meiktila, Central Burma, gives a chance to tank crews to check over and rearm their vehicles.One of the tanks ready for checking. April 01, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

A burned-out Iraqi T-55 main battle tank lies abandoned at the edge of an oil field following Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait(KWT)

Entering Utrecht 7-5-1945 Biltstraat comment written on original photo in possession of owner

Russian Tanks - Tanks - War File. April 23, 1938.

Anefo photo collection. Dutch army exercises in La Courtine, France; practice. August 7, 1970. France, La Courtine

Anefo photo collection. Second day hostage of train at the point; At the transition a DAF YP408 armored vehicle of the Royal Netherlands Army and there for a DAF YA66 from the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee .. May 24, 1977. The point

German Troops Enter Prague.German armored cars, accompanied by motor-cycle troops, passing through the streets of Prague to take over the occupation of the city. March 17, 1939. (Photo by Keystone).

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