Life in Military Facilities

Everyday scenes in military life, including personal care and interactions, reflecting camaraderie and the unique settings of service members.

Back to the German Lines -- One of the German nurses captured by the American forces in Normandy steps into am ambulance waiting to take her back to the German lines. All of the nine nurses captured in the Cherbourg area gore repatriated by mutual agreement. Hostilities ceasing temporarily while two ambulances took the nurses over to the German lines, where they were received by a Gorman major. August 1, 1944. (Photo by U.S. Signal Corps Photo)

Crew members test fuel aboard the destroyer USS PETERSON (DD 969) during FLEET EX 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Base: USS Peterson (DD-969) Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Franklin Roosevelt - General Scenes. September 14, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Trip to North Carolina: Visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara visits 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Pope Air Force Base, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Food Parcels For Troops - Military General. July 19, 1943. (Photo by The National Film Board).

LTC R.E. Dennison, a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Inspector General's team, inspects an enlisted man's clothing locker. Base: Marine Corps Logis Base, Albany State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Command GPD, A. A. Bruijstens (with glasses) and D. J. Dielwart. March 11, 1981

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.

Anefo photo collection. Tent. "We thank De Poland" about Polish liberators in the former house of detention small Gartmanplantsoen. May 1, 1981. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC 2nd Veldcompagnie army genius crazy soekaboemi. The hairdresser in Velde can not offer his clientele worthful comfort. Sergeant vaille from Zutphen gets a haircut. September 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Approx. 1939,1941, training Wehrmacht, soldiers during haircutting, Ulm, Germany, Europe

Photograph of Poster from Seamanship Manual "Salute All Officers (Preliminary Sketch)".

Military screen championships in 's-Hertogenbosch. Game moment.

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

Exhibit , Ordnance industry, Armories, Exhibitions, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Anefo photo collection. Hospitally "Orange". Hospitally ship "Oranje" leaves Melbourne for a help mission to Batavia. October 22, 1945. Australia

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Various topics article "Weapon brothers", shooting downstad, landscapes and kampong image, recording sloop Farywell. The sloop "Farywell" man reads magazine. July 1947. Indonesia, 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.

CM. Budenny, M.V. Frunze, K.E. Voroshilov on the Southern Front. 1920.

Concert 7th Army Band, USIS Gardens. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Association of conscripts holds anti-Natocongres in Utrecht; American soldier keeps speech, in background a clenched fist. November 23, 1974. Utrecht

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. visiting American frigate USS "Douglas A. Munro" celebrated everywhere. crew serves drums. January 1960. Guinea

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC prisoner of war prisoner of British Indians and Japs. Medan. One of the Indian deserturs captured on North Sumatra: Surajpal Singh from the 15th Indian Corps. August 1, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

The spontaneous strike, here on 10.9.1969 by the miners of the Minister Stein colliery, was one of the starting points of the strike movement of what later became known as the September strikes in the coalfield, Germany, Europe

Evacuation of Finnish refugees, autumn 1944.

Air Force personnel gather around the piano in the theatre to listen to their favorite songs and pass a little time. Luzon, Philippine Islands. 1 June 1945.

Hull Maintenance Technician 1ST Class (HT1) Mike Scott (right) goes over problems encountered with the hand-held sonar with ENS. Chao (left) and LT J.G. Piroj. Royal Thai navy, during Exercise Cobra Gold '82. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '82 Base: The-Pha Beach Country: Thailand (THA)

A local television personality interview Tina Wilson, ombudsman, chairman, at the Navy Family Service Center regarding support services available for dependents of military personnel deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

In the style and spirit of the Hitler Youth (HJ) and the so-called Heimattreue Jugend, old and neo-Nazis met in the Teutoburg Forest accompanied by the Viking Youth with drums and fanfares, Germany, Europe

Gi Of The 7Th Air Force Points To Shell Danage To The Concolidated B-24 Liberator 'Heaven Can Wait'. Funafuti, Ellice Islands.

French army officers reading the day's newspapers, France, c1939-1940. The photographer is unknown.

A local television personality interview Tina Wilson, ombudsman, chairman, at the Navy Family Service Center regarding support services available for dependents of military personnel deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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.

Coast Guardsmen. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen aboard a vessel.

A group of pickets at San Pedro during the general maritime strike on the Pacific ports. Nov. 31, 1936.

A member of a visiting Soviet military band inspects an electronic keyboard during his group's tour of the U.S. Navy School of Music. Base: Naval Amphib Base, Little Creek State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. Dutch soldiers boast a Christmas tree. December 1945

***** Allied ships which were sunk by Japanese submarines operating ***** coast have ***** Australian port. Top left: V. Saulsberry, D. Hendrickson, and D. Pearce ***** the American ***** off the coast. Bottom left: John Ray Bird (left), 15-year-old deckhand and the second officer, P. Hoeg, survivors of the Norwegian freighter sunk by a Japanese submarine. Bird received facial injuries. Right: Allan Wyllie (left), assistant steward, and Len Malmo, chief cook, both from New Zealand with the clothing issued to them when they arrived in port. May 10, 1943.

The Polish Navy during the Second World War On board the Polish destroyer ORP Piorun (Thunderbolt), formerly HMS Nerissa, officers off watch get a little warmth and comfort round the wardroom fire, they still have on their rubber boots. The Captain, Eugeniusz Pawski, is farthest from the camera, next to him is the young Sub Lieutenant reading a book of Polish Poems called Pan Tadeusz (Mr Thaddeus) by Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's Shakespeare.

Off-duty sailors relax in the enlisted men's mess aboard the Canadian frigate HMCS MARGAREE (DDH 230) during FLEET EX 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Base: Hmcs Margaree (DDH 230) Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Anefo photo collection. Results: tension CPN camp. 21, 1986

VITTORIO TAVIANI; PAOLO TAVIANI.

Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a

. Private H Jones was gassed in April 1917. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

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.

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. A meteorologist, Sergeant E Y Appleton of Sunderland, fills a weather balloon with hydrogen, in the snow at B88/Heesch, Holland.

Visit from Prince Bernhard to the army museum in Leiden I.V.m. The unveiling of the GENERAL image of General Hoiefger.

Staying and performance of the 1st battalion regiment Shock troops in the Dutch East Indies. Sergeant plays a song in the canteen, while another soldier plays on a piano.

Farewells, Reunions Etc. - Australian Troops. December 17, 1944.

The officer of the deck and his relief confer in the pilot house aboard the destroyer USS PETERSON (DD-969) during FLEET EX 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

A recruit exercises on an arm curl machine to strengthen his arms. The machine is used by recruits in the physical conditioning platoon. Base: Usmc Recruit Depot,Parris Island State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Dassault Aircraft Factory. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

First lieutenant kite J.P. Soolsma, classified by 313 Squadron, with 'student-flyer' first lieutenant c.a.j.m. Frijters. Photo belongs to the photo report, which is created for the benefit of the 'operational, the Royal Netherlands Air Force in operation' by Wim Cock from 1983.

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.

Photo of Marva's (Marine Women's Department) in Amsterdam T.B.V. A recruitment ad for the Royal Netherlands Marine, 1955.

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.

A crew member communicates by sound-powered phones aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) during exercise SOLID SHIELD '89. Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD '89 Country: Unknown

DM-SN-85-02414. Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Sailors for Tokyo, Ben Verhagen. August 8, 1964. Japan, Tokyo

Air Commodore A.M. Charlesworth. July 25, 1946.

Survivors of the Norwegian cargo ship Fingal. sunk off *****. May 07, 1943.

The 38th German Fuersorgetag on 12.11.1976 in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle, Germany, Europe

SRA Ella and SGT Allen Kirkham shop at the commissary after completing an exercise. They are part of the Base Engineering Emergency Force, Prime Beef. Subject Operation/Series: PRIME BEEF Base: Howard Air Force Base Country: Panama (PAN)

Sergeant George Camblair on kitchen police duty, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Office of War Information, September 1942

DF-ST-86-03828. Base: Weisbaden Country: West Germany (FRG)

Anefo photo collection. Surinamer threatened, arrested, arrested. Number 7 commander Binnendijk (left). August 3, 1967. Suriname

First lieutenant kite J.P. Soolsma, classified by 313 Squadron, with 'student-flyer' first lieutenant c.a.j.m. Frijters. Photo belongs to the photo report, which is created for the benefit of the 'operational, the Royal Netherlands Air Force in operation' by Wim Cock from 1983.

Evacuees come aboard a utility landing craft. Approximately 600 Americans and third nation personnel are being evacuated from Beirut, with the aid of LCUs. Base: Juniyah Country: Lebanon (LBN)

Navy band members perform during exercise Unitas XX. Subject Operation/Series: UNITAS XX Base: Port-Of-Spain Country: Trinidad And Tobago (TTO)

Anefo photo collection. At Schiphold, Cities arrived from movement of the armed forces (MFA) from Portugal. The three are here at the invitation of the Portugal Committee, T.G.V. The first birthday of the political revolution in Portugal.vlnr. Jose Nobre Soares (Air Force), Hernandez Zambujo (Lieutenant at the Marine) and Manuel Madeiro (Army) during a press conference after arrival. April 24, 1975. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Anefo photo collection. Kees Verkerk gets pin, command NTS. June 2, 1967

Violet Silvia, head fitter at the Navy Exchange Uniform Center, takes the chest measurement of Midshipman Candidate John Hahn as he begins his three-week indoctrination period at the Naval Academy Preparatory School. Base: Newport State: Rhode Island (RI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A Marine does sit-ups in the gym aboard the amphibious assault ship USS NASSAU (LHA-4). Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Anefo photo collection. Command Frisian Courier, Ria Buzzer. July 13, 1966

LCPL Randy Sanders is the appointed barber for 31st Marine Amphibious Unit located aboard the amphibious assault ship USS NEW ORLEANS (LPH-11). Country: Indian Ocean (IOC)

DN-SN-87-07011. Base: Naval Station, Long Beach State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

SV JF exercise training

Home and welcome to Den Helder in March 1989 from the mine hunter Hr.Ms. Urk (1986-) After a mission in the Persian Gulf.

DN-SN-90-02432. Base: Naval Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Command Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. February 20, 1988

John Cockle on downtown street corner, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, John Vachon, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1942

Sir & Lady Ronald Cross. July 24, 1944.

Navy combat artist CMDR. John Charles Roach, USNR-R, combines colors on his palette as he works on a portrait in his shop at the Washington Navy Yard. Roach is doing a series of paintings on Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD DESERT STORM Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Congress on nuclear army organized by the VVDM and the IKV. Hans Revier Chairman of the soldiers' union association of conscript soldiers. January 17, 1981. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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