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Life and Work of Sailors

Images illustrate sailors in quarters, training, and daily activities onboard ships, highlighting military life during wartime.

Marine recruits at boot camp live in Quonset huts. San Diego, CA, 6 June 1955.
Marine recruits at boot camp live in Quonset huts. San Diego, CA, 6 June 1955.
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Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Soldiers try to smuggle a dog from Malacca. March 15, 1946. Malacca, Malaysia
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Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. Card playing Dutch soldiers. There are other soldiers around them, one of them wears the Stengun. 1945
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Anefo photo collection. Rise Marines. July 30, 1946
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action Pentjak Puncak and surroundings. Three soldiers in an office. Colonel a.a.j.j. Thomson (Commander 1st Infantry Brigade Group) behind a desk. The military right speaks in a microphone. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Puncak
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Poll photo collection. Repatrants SS Atlantis. Social workers at repatrants on stretchers. May 5, 1945
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Trip to Western States: Pierre, South Dakota (Oahe Dam), 10:25AM. President John F. Kennedy views U.S. Army Corps of Engineers displays during the dedication ceremony of the Oahe Dam and Reservoir, on the banks of the Missouri River, near Pierre, South Dakota. Looking on (L-R): Omaha District Engineer, Colonel Harry G. Woodbury, Jr.; Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; Missouri River Division Engineer, Brigadier General Robert F. Seedlock; U.S. Senatorial candidate from South Dakota, George McGovern (partially hidden); Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (face obscured); Oahe Area Engineer, John W. Sibert, Jr. White spots on image are original to the negative.
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Anefo photo collection. Parent day in Kazerne in Vught, see 26630/31. April 2, 1948. Noord-Brabant, Vught
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DN-SN-89-03408. Country: Unknown
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05/31/1938. Catalan Women Contributing to War Tasks.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Dutch Red Cross Team Tjiandjoer. The Dutch red Kruisteam in Tjiandjoer. October 1946. Cianjur, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Airmen photographers laying mosaics at No. 2 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, Heliopolis, Egypt
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Convoy To Russia, With a British Cruiser Escort on Arctic Lifeline. December 1941, on Board the Cruiser HMS Sheffield. Taking convoys to Arctic Russia in December is a cold job and all personnel obliged to keep watches in the open are issued with arctic clothing to wear in addition to the comforts they already have. Here is a look-out preparing to go on watch. He has a sheepskin great-coat, sheepskin gloves, two balaclavas, thick woollen pants, two pairs of seaboot stockings and pullovers.
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Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. Dutch soldiers around a colleague with Santa mask smoking a cigarette. December 1945
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Soldiers of the 2nd battalion regiment shock troops in conversation with an officer of the Royal Marines.
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. A WAAF radio-telephony operator at her position in a pinnace at a flying boat base, communicating landing instructions to aircraft
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Books in Wartime, 1942 Mrs Smith, and her husband Private Smith, consult an assistant in a book shop. Another soldier can be seen in the foreground, leafing through a book as he browses the shelves. According to the original caption, the changes made to books means that 'they can get more to a shelf nowadays'.
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Table - Top Tactics For "Terriers" -- A class in Front line first aid learning the treatment of fractures of lower limbs by the application of the Thomas Splint. Denied during the winter opportunities for training in the open, the R.A.M.C. of the 47th (2nd London) division nevertheless contrives in aningenoius manner to practice indoors in miniature exercises which they will re-enact during the ensuring summer on their allotted training grounds in the country. At the Duke of York's headquarters in chelsea, in addition to learning all the usual work of the medical service, the men display the greatest miniature transport, buildings, etc., are used to show them in advance the movements in which they will take part in person later on. January 8, 1934. (Photo by Central Press Photos Ltd.).
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The British Reoccupation of Burma Staff of the former Japanese Burma Area Army Headquarters sort and list documents that will be passed to the Allies. This task went on during Operation Nipoff, the scheme devised to repatriate 35,000 prisoners to Japan. The operation was directed by Headquarters Burma Command but administered by the Japanese themselves through their former Burma Area Army Headquarters staff.
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Vice-Admiral L V Wells, CB, DSO, Admiral in Command Orkneys and Shetlands with Lieutenant Fletcher RNVR the Fleet Mail Officer, watching some of the Fleet mail being sorted on board the Home Fleet base and transit ship HMS DUNLUCE CASTLE.
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Italian Prisoners of War in Britain- Everyday Life at An Italian Pow Camp, England, UK, 1945 Luigi Zaccani and camp chief Vezio Deon Cardin inspect the 'radiophonic plant' at the N.144 Italian workers camp near London. According to the original caption, this plant it connected to a 'system of amplifiers scattered about everywhere, in the canteen, in the refectory, in the common rooms etc.'. It is Zaccani's job within the camp to look after the plant.
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U.S. Army Chaplain (Maj.) Eli Bohnen, right, a rabbi serving with the 42nd Infantry Division in World War II, leads a seder service during the Jewish holiday of Passover in Dahn, Germany March 28, 1945.
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V 5764. Thule (depicted name)
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WORLD WAR II. Sandbostel Concentration Camp. Political prisoners and British troops inside a bunkhouse in STALAG XB camp. Germany.
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Anefo photo collection. Exercise "Grand Repulse" West Germany. September 27, 1953. Germany
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Anefo photo collection. Opening switching class in the sub-officerschool in Weert State Secretary Calmeyer performs the opening ceremonies. November 23, 1960. Limburg, Weert
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Anefo photo collection. Dutch pilots Mitchell bombers Squadron receive DISTINGISHED Flying Cross (DFC) award. Air Vice Marshall B.E. Embry addresses Dutch officers. 18 February 1944. Britain
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Poland. Soldiers in the recreation room of the barracks in Stoubcy. 1934. Belarus
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Train clearer in the office, dark uniform.
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Royal Air Force Flying Training Command, 1940-1945. Airborne troops seated in an Airspeed Horsa of the Heavy Glider Conversion Unit at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, ready for take off. Royal Air Force Flying Training Command, 1940-1945. Des soldats aéroportés assis à l'intérieur d'un Airspeed Horsa, de l'Unité de conversion sur planeur lourd à Brize Norton, dans l'Oxfordshire, prêts à décoller.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Presentation of clothing by the Red Cross. The first group of evacuees from the TNI area that arrived in Batavia was provided by the Red Cross of clothing .. April 29, 1948. Batavia, Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies
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The Dutch army is practicing in La Courtine. Pay attention! The above description is a generic series description based on the information stated by the army film and photo service. In the long term, this global description will be specified.
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Anefo photo collection. Assignment. November 24, 1970
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A group of Dutch navy people, including a fleeted spiritual, go with an aircraft from the Royal Air Force (Klu) to Rome. A fleeted (chaplain or preacher) is recognizable by the gallons without curl and the Christian cross with oak pop of the collar.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Red Cross environment Surabaya. Villagers with red cross care providers and knwal soldiers. December 9, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Surabaya
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Darre Speaks about Germany's Agriculture ConditionsAgriculture Minister Walter Darre speaking in Berlin on Jan. 28, 35, about the farmers situation in the Reich. January 28, 1935. (Photo by The Associated Press).
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Anefo photo collection. board Dutch submarine. Mess, crew drinks tea. 1942
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Anefo photo collection. Marva 48361. 17 April 1948
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. The crew of a Vickers Wellington of the Sea Rescue Flight discuss a forthcoming mission outside their Operations Room at LG 'Y'/Qassassin, Egypt.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action Buitenzorg 2nd series. Two Dutch soldiers at a circuit of cutlery sets. December 1948. Bogor, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Allied Soldiers Like London and London Likes Them- Overseas Troops in England, 1940 Free French soldiers and sailors enjoy a pint of beer in a London pub, 1940. A young woman serves them their drinks.
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Anefo photo collection. Film recording for rank film "Operation Amsterdam" in Ijmuiden, v.L.n.R.: Alexander Knox, Peter Finch, Tony Britton to the meal. July 8, 1958. IJmuiden
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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.
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Instruction Taktics by Major der Mariniers
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Anefo photo collection. Series about the Limburg families Smedts and Poels from Horst that shot about 300 Allied pilots during the Second World War (above the Netherlands) in the farm "the black slice" helped to bring over border to Belgium .. Smedts, .. ., Poels, .... August 1945. America, Horst, Limburg
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1361st Audiovisual Squadron members prepare a welcome-home sign for the homecoming of the 52 former hostages after their release from Iran. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
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Anefo photo collection. Vice Admiraal Jhr. Van Holthe visits MSD Leiden. December 19, 1949. Leiden, South Holland
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Australians Meet In New York's Stage Door Canteen - Four Australian sailors visiting New York City's Stage Door Canteen are greeted by a countryman, William J. Christie (right), a Melbourne newspaper man visiting New York for the Melbourne Herald. The Australian seaman are (left to right) Harold Goodwin of Sydney, Keith Leggatt of Sydney, Bill Crisp of Hobart and Blane Bowen of Victoria. July 16, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Office of War Information Picture).
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Trip to South America: White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) communications equipment preparations, personnel, and city views 1961-12-15 \u2013 1961-12-18. Several unidentified men load White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) communications equipment onto an airplane for President John F. Kennedy's trip to South America. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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The Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War A Wren at work on a teleprinter at a Fleet Air Arm station.
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Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-1943. An intelligence officer illustrates a target by the use of a sand model to bomber aircrews of No. 108 Squadron RAF at Fayid, Egypt.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Armical on the occasion of Liberation Day in the Vlasakkers in Amersfoort.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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De Lier, LSK. Air forces staff in training.
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First Anniversary of Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), Portland, Maine. Administrative History of the First Naval District in World War II
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Los Angeles, California 1944Under a USO program, soldiers on leave are entertained in civilians' homes, in this case to a very warm reception!
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival of the December 7 Division per MS Boissevain. Women's corps KNIL (UK-KNIL) puts looks ready to a long table. October 19, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok
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Anefo photo collection. Hie Holland England / Anefo London series. Princess Juliana visit recently founded women's help corps. speaks waitress lunch. addition commander C.E. Smit-Dyserinck. September 1944. Britain, Wolverhampton
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Electrical engineering course in the school for technical training of the Royal Netherlands Marine (Tokm), which is located in the field of the Marine Barracks Amsterdam (MKAD). A Sergeant Electrician (SGttelmnt) gives instructions.
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Hand Tool Exhibit - Cambrai (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Anefo photo collection. Parent day in Kazerne in Vught, see 26630/31. April 2, 1948. Noord-Brabant, Vught
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War Office Grail Service Club, London, 1940 Members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) relax at the War Office Grail Service Club, 58 Sloane Street, London, on 12 March 1940.
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Youth Service Volunteers Help British Farmers- Agricultural Camp at Nunney Catch, Somerset, England, UK, 1943 Kenneth Pridmore (left, wearing a checked sweater) and Ivor Bounds (right, wearing a jacket) are checked back in to camp at Nunney Catch as they return from a day in the fields. Taking their details is Mr Cable, the Country War Agricultural Committee Labour Officer attached to the camp. A large tent can be seen behind them.
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Poll photo collection. Repatriation service India. The clothing center in Ataka. December 1945. Ataka, Egypt
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The British Reoccupation of Burma Outside the Civic Hall in Rangoon, Burmese children take a chance to sit in the cockpit of a Spitfire. On hand is an experienced fighter pilot to answer any questions. The Spitfire was just one of the many exhibits on view in an exhibition staged by the Royal Air Force to show their role in the defeat of Japanese forces in Burma.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Evacuation train from Gombong. Among the evacuated children were some 'steors', children from the Oranje Nassauststicht in Magelang, which was set up by the late 'dad' van der Steur. They spoke Dutch. July 11, 1948. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies
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Writing Home. June 5, 1940. (Photo by Barry Newberry/Fairfax Media).
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Ex- WAAFS Rush to Join N.Z. Air force Higher Pay Attracts 400 -- Patricia Sweeney of Liverpool (six years in the WAAF) sitting, and Anne Anderson of Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, Scotland (2 yrs in the WAAF) and Helen Stirling of Glasgow (WAAF for 4½ yrs (standing behind) are interviewed today by woman Flight Officer E.J. Peat; Squadron leader M.B. Furlong R.N. Z.A.F. and Flt Lieut N.J. Ingram R.N.Z.A.F. In response to an appeal for recruits in this country (by the Royal New Zealand Air Force) for former A. T. S., W. A. A. F. s and W. R. N. S. some 400 British girls habe aplied to join the New Zealand Airforce. January 16, 1951. (Photo by Fox Photos).
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Women on the Home Front 1939 - 1945 The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS): Three WRNS River Pilots at Plymouth Naval Base studying charts before sailing. Left to right: Pat McGinnis, Pat Turner and Patricia Downing.
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Anefo photo collection. Commemoration of terror victims Amersfoort. May 3, 1947. Amersfoort
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Luva plot room (Air Force. Woman Department) of the 4th The Air Guard Agency of the Air Guard Service (KLD) in Alkmaar.
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Tuskegee airmen playing cards in the officers' club in the evening, African-Americans
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Anefo photo collection. Army Army Anefo London series. Army 642 Brigade "Princess Irene" Enjoy Morning Break Tea. Dutch army camp Wolverhampton. daily life camp. Mancens PRISES Irene Brigade enjoy tea break .. August 1943. Britain
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Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana visits the disaster area in South Holland. June 21, 1954. South Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Repatriation Camp Rheine (Germany). Soldiers say goodbye to a number of men in a freight wagon. The doorway is decorated with flowers. 1945. Germany, Rheine
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Sewing on the dormitory of sleeve emblems due to new conscripts.
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Toulon Pictures, French Navy. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Christmas celebration on board the battleship Friedrich Carl, Modern Art in Master Woodcuts, yearbook from 1900
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC (Alloy new troops D-division "palm tree"). Two soldiers. A soldier plays the mandolin another writes something on a notepad. June 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Off-duty sailors play a board game in the enlisted mess aboard the West German frigate FGS KARLSRUHE (F-212) during Fleet Ex 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
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Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand, a WVS volunteer, stands on the 'wrong' side of the counter of the WVS canteen amongst a group of thirsty Pioneer Corps. She is receiving a cup of tea from a WVS colleague inside the canteen and is just about to hand it to one of the waiting Pioneer Corps men. These men have been helping to clear rubble following an air raid in this area of London, 1941.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Colonel J.W. Sluyter, Commander U-Brigade. Colonel J.W. Sluyter, Commander of the U-Brigade and his staff view a map. September 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies
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Prize distribution in Hangar on F 2, 1942 Prize ceremony in Hangar on F 2 Roslagens flyfotlälj
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Allied Occupation Of Germany - War File Germany. October 29, 1945.
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They Also Fight Who Only Stand and Wait- Part-time War work in Surrey, England, 1943 Mrs Belami, Mrs Jolliffe and Miss Allan at work as inspectors, checking that the rivets being sorted in this makeshift workshop are being done so correctly. The work is being carried out by 45 part-time war workers in what was once the billiard room of a house owned by Mrs Allen in Guildford, Surrey. The rivets are being sorted for use in aircraft factories.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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RAF Bomber Command 1940 Blenheim crews of No. 110 Squadron at Wattisham add Le Bourget to a list of recent targets, August 1940.
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DN-SN-89-03409. Country: Unknown
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC arrival Volendam. Drawers working on the game. June 16, 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tandjong Priok
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Exhibit , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod, sitting at his desk in Headquarters, Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, at Caserta, Italy, shortly after his appointment as Deputy Air Commander-in-Chief, MAAF, and Commander-in-Chief, RAF Mediterranean and the Middle East.
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Released British Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in Rangoon, 1945 George Black of Aberdeen (right) and George Stewart of Banffshire, both members of the Gordon Highlanders and held by the Japanese as prisoners for three years, read the first British newspapers they have seen since before their captivity.
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'Training to be an A.T.S. Officer - April, 1945', 1947. Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) learning map-reading in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, during the Second World War. From "Princess Elizabeth: The Illustrated Story of Twenty-one Years in the Life of the Heir Presumptive", by Dermot Morrah. Odhams Press Limited, London, 1947
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Festivities following the birth of Princess Marijke. Roulette. 19 February 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies
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Trip to Europe: Germany, Hanau: President Kennedy has lunch with U.S. enlisted troops and their officers at Fliegerhorst Kaserne, 12:15PM. President John F. Kennedy (center) visits with U.S. Army Sergeant Major Richard C. Whitfield during a lunch with military officers in the mess hall at Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Hanau, West Germany (Federal Republic). U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Ross McEuen sits at far right.
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Anefo photo collection. Arrival in Rotterdam of the M.S "Intrapora" from the Dutch East Indies. Repatriating soldiers play a game of table tennis on board the intrapora. 28 June 1947. Rotterdam, South Holland
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U. S. WACs. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Anefo photo collection. New Year's Delivery Day in the Koopmansbeurs in Amsterdam, one of the collectors who has everything in the field of German army e session time. January 12, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Organ. February 19, 1945. (Photo by Commonwealth Of Australia Department of Air).