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Military Actions in World History

Photos capturing pivotal military moments, including Italian soldiers in Ethiopia and Polish troops in France during WWII, highlighting historical conflict.

'Le deuxieme anniversaire de L'Yser; le general Wielemans saluante le drapeau du 12e de ligne belge.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".
'Le deuxieme anniversaire de L'Yser; le general Wielemans saluante le drapeau du 12e de ligne belge.', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Withdrawal of Dutch troops from solo, Gondang Winangoe and clares. Two celmed TNI soldiers walk through an empty street with their guns in the attack. November 12, 1949. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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German policemen supervising Jews who were forced to lay on the pavement during 'Bloody Wednesday' in Olkusz, Poland. Dated 1940
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Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, 12-19-1938
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Macyar Unitary Demand -- Sudeten-German Soldiers who deserted from the Czech Army across the Hungarian border, photographed at the Demonstration in Budapest last night.Traffic in Budapest was at a standstill for three hours yesterday evening while nearly half a Million people Marched to the Heroes' Square, where a meeting called by patriotic associations representing all start of the population a resolution was passed amid scenes of excitement demanding that all non-Czech nationalities of the Czechoslovak republic be given freedom to exercise the right of self-determination. September 22, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).
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No. 151 Wing Royal Air Force Operations in Russia, September-november 1941 Officers of the Wing indulge in physical exercise in the chill of an arctic morning at Vaenga.
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command 1939-1941. Pilots and navigators plot courses to and from their target, following a briefing at Oakington, Cambridgeshire..
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Queen Visits London Scottish - H.M. The Queen, she is ***** Colonel of the regiment, recently paid a visit to a Battalion of the London Scottish.The Queen the ***** point. August 04, 1941. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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07/31/1936. Sailors of the Destroyer "Almirante Antequera", Loading Projectiles, before leaving to fight in Palma de Mallorca.
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GUERRA CIVIL. ESPAÑA 1936-1939. GRUPO DE ESCOLARES MADRILEÑOS, AÑO 1938.
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Cardinal Spellman With Un Troops -- Francis Cardinal Spellman (center) and Gen. James Van Fleet, 8th army commander (second from right) pose with 2d Division GIs and members of the French Battalion after a Catholic Christmas service somewhere in Korea. It was the second successive Christmas spent by the Cardinal in Korea. December 27, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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The Camargue - (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Photograph of Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) and the Tsarina Alexandra, shooting game. The photograph was taken by the official photographer to the Russian court. Date: October 12th 1910
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THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963), directed by JOHN STURGES.
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Russian revolutionaries destroying emblems of Tsarist rule 1917
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Anefo photo collection. Celebration in Krimpen at the leak of victory over the bishop of Utrecht by the Dutch count Dirk V in 1064. Scene from the showed spectacle. April 30, 1975. Krimpen aan de Lek, Zuid-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Suriname, Surinamese army; Lugging with plunge bags. April 1, 1975. Suriname
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The 1890 caption reads: " Stanley, Emin, Casati, and officers at Usambiroi." It is from H M Stanleys book, In Darkest Africa. Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a British explorer and journalist. In 1871, the New York Herald sent him to Africa to find David Livingstone. On the expedition of 1879-1884, he obtained territorial concessions that led to Belgian acquisition of Congo Free State.
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From November 1 to 5, 1931, the First Congress of the Central Soviet Area of the Communist Party of China was held in Yeping to make final preparations for the convening of the First Soviet Union. The picture shows a group photo of the members of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China Soviet Area, from left to right are Gu Zuolin, Ren Bishi, Zhu De, Deng Fa, Xiang Ying, Mao Zedong, Wang Jiaxiang
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Dutch prisoners of war. Dutch East Indies. Lombok. Men from the Dutch navy who have surrendered to the Japanese. May 192. Lombok
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Battle of San Jacinto, on-set of the western film, "The First Texan", Allied Artists, 1956
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Tagus, October 1936. A sergeant walking through the town with a fallow deer that he rescued from a discovery.
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Hitler youth parade in Berlin Germany circa 1933
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French Religious Wars 1562-1598. Battle of Montcontour 3 October 1569. Huguenots under Gaspard Coligny (1519-1572) took heavy losses during defeat by Catholics under Henry, duc d'Anjou (1551-1580), Henry III of France from 1574. Engraving by Jacques Tortorel (fl1568-1590) and Jean-Jacques Perrissin (1536-1617) from their series on the Huguenot Wars, c1570.
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Group of men from the Compulsory Work Corps (Reichsarbeitsdienst) march to a sporting event, Germany, 1938
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Still photograph from the Soviet Film of the liberation of Auschwitz, taken by the film unit of the First Ukrainian Front, shot in 1945 by Alexander Voronzow and others in his group. Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.
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September 1936. Republican soldier with a flag.
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POLAND - 1984: shows wounded Polish partisan of the Armia Krajowa receiving first aid, photo taken by Joachim Joachimczyk, devoted 40th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising POLAND - CIRCA 1984: A stamp printed in Poland shows wounded Polish partisan of the Armia Krajowa receiving first aid, photo taken by Joachim Joachimczyk, devoted 40th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising, circa 1984 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 5137404