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Military Barracks and Ceremonies

Historical photographs of soldiers in barracks, funerals, and formal meetings, reflecting military life and ceremonial events.

Misc. April 01, 1954. (Photo by Look Magazine).

Anefo photo collection. Fifteenth Olympia's Tour has started, chief police officer H.J. Van der Molen gives a starting signal. 11 May 1966

Anefo photo collection. Rail bridge at Buggenum put into use. December 2, 1945. Buggenum

Maintenance work.

White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) equipment and personnel. White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) staff work with communications equipment in an unidentified location.

8th Annual White House Police Pistol Tournament. Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. "Smokey" Stover (left), presents trophy to unidentified man at the Eighth Annual White House Police Pistol Tournament. White House, Washington, D.C.

Air Raid Tests and Civil Defense Demonstration - Boston, Massachusetts , Shipping, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearing briefing (customs officers and travelers during luggage control); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

France Mobiles Navy At Brest As Crisis Zero Hour Approaches -- Marines on arrival at Brest to board their respective, ships.These pictures, just received in London, were smuggled out of France and show scenes at the navy yard at Brest, big French naval base, where warships are being massed owing to the European crisis caused by the Sudeten-German - Czech dispute.France has stopped all leave and ordered-up her naval reserves.Taking pictures at Brest has been strictly forbidden. September 11, 1938.

The guards are "At Home" at of Caterham barracks, Caterham, Surrey.A guardsman escorting guests from a visit to the gas chamber. July 24, 1937. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Anefo photo collection. Night exercise of framework training on eight March to Spaarndam. March 8, 1946. Noord-Holland, Spaarndam

DN-SN-84-00564. Base: Naval Air Station Whidbey Island State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Opening of new buildings at army of Oirschot by State Secretary G.H.J.M. Peijnenburg. The State Secretary and Lieutenant General L.W.C. Adank at the front door.

Visit HM Queen Beatrix (second from the left) at the School for NBCD (Nuclear, Bacteriological, Chemical, Damage Control) and Operating Safety in Den Helder in March 1989. Third of the head of the head of the school Captain-Lieutenant-Ter-Sea B.J.H.h.h. Rous (1941-1999).

Anefo photo collection. American consulate occupied, police put away occupiers, sticks fist. January 15, 1973

Anefo photo collection. Report refund radio devices. There are thousands of radio devices in Amsterdam in Amsterdam in Amsterdam, which were advanced by the Germans at the time and that are now returned to the rightful owners. October 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Marseille Docker - nicholas Derybolsky (Magazine Unit Negs). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

'Coup d'etat in Portugal; The head of state defeated and exiled: in the station of Entre-Campos, bids farewell to a last faithful before departure of the special train for the border', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Alabama - American GIs having boots shined. Two black bootblack boys shine some soldiers boots on a Mobile, Alabama street corner. Date: circa early 1950s

Anefo photo collection. Exercise La Courtine, Minister Sidney van den Bergh visits La Courtine. July 7, 1959. France, La Courtine

Airmen unload Tian Tian from a C-130 Hercules aircraft at Tempelhof Central Airport. The U.S. Air Force delivered the panda bears Bao Bao and Tian Tian to West Berlin from China. Base: West Berlin Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Anefo photo collection. TRUNMENT OFFICE 30 April, riots during the throne change Rookbom explodes between mobile unit members. April 30, 1980

The Kardomah Cafe, outfitted as an air raid shelter as an attraction during wartime, Fleet St, London, England, November 15, 1939. CSU Archives Courtesy Everett Collection

Excursion from the staff from the Martial History section to Breda. Visit to the Royal Military Academy. Adjustant Danse poses at a gun.

Anefo photo collection. Demonstration red resistance front in Binnenhof against extradition RAF members to West Germany, devised to the handy with police. January 26, 1978

A.I.F. in USA. October 27, 1945.

Germany, Berlin, the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

Poll photo collection. 55th anniversary of King Frederik IX. Lakei in the doorway of Palace Brockdorff. March 11, 1954. Denmark, Copenhagen

Anefo photo collection. Man stabbed to death under the Gooiseweg viaduct in Amsterdam; Police at the victim. Police, victims, night. 25 July 1979. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fightwheeler John Stol April 19, 80 years, here at the FI ETS. April 15, 1964

Poll photo collection. Travel to Poland. Soldier on the train on the route between the border and Stoubcy. 1934. Stoubcy, Belarus

Swedish Lotta in consultation with prisoners of war through a train window.

Anefo photo collection. Practice Nuremberg. December 4, 1945. Nuremberg

Anefo photo collection. Containers Abcoude Protect houses bombs World War. 27 February 1986. Abcoude, Utrecht (province)

U-boat Warfare 1939-1945 U-boat Losses: A rating of HMS DUNCAN displays wooden wreckage from a sunken U-boat. Photograph taken on the return to Londonderry of the escort group B7 after they had sunk 2 U-boats in the North Atlantc.

Anefo photo collection. Occupation Iranian Embassy in Wassenaar; Mobile unit drains. August 23, 1978. Wassenaar, South Holland

DEU, Germany: The historical colour photos from the 70s show events and people from politics, culture, trade unions, working life, medicine, etc. Bochum. IG Metall on warning strike ca 1969

American soldier in Alsace Lorraine during the drive to liberate the French region from German control 1944

Anefo photo collection. General considerations of the House of Representatives, Premier den Uyl runs over Binnenhof. October 8, 1973

Anefo photo collection. Olympic Summer Games Helsinki (1952). Finnish soldiers focus the Dutch flat. July 18, 1952. Finland, Helsinki

French Milice distributing furniture confiscated from Jews to victims of Allied bombing, Paris, 1943-1944. The Milice Francais was a paramilitary organisation, the French equivalent of the German Gestapo, formed in 1943 primarily to fight against the French Resistance. They were also actively involved in the rounding up of France's Jewish population for deportation. The photographer is unknown.

Inspector-General Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard brings 41 armored brigade during his working visit to a demonstration on the training grounds at Hohne.

Local residents supplying refreshments to trainload of British soldiers who had been withdrawn from the beaches of Dunkirk on 3-4 June 1940 and brought back to England. Although there were many losses 335,000 Allied troops were evacuated in the retreat.

Anefo photo collection. Soldiers On Dam Square In Amsterdam. A Canadian (or British) lieutenant keeps a speech. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Island: Are Svedlund Visa Övk.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

British firefighters in a bombed area in England, World War Two, 1943

Anefo photo collection. Coentunnel sweep through boy scouts. April 15, 1966

Anefo photo collection. Van der Putten case for Arnhem civil service. March 23, 1962. Arnhem

FRANK SINATRA and TONY CURTIS in KINGS GO FORTH (1958), directed by DELMER DAVES.

Italy. Rome. A Traffic Policeman At Porta Pinciana. 1930-40

Unveiling of a memorial board donated to the rescue museum in Den Helder by O.A. Links the commander of the operational school (OPS) in Den Helder Captain-Ter-Zee J.W. De Jager (1943) in April 1990.

Photo reportage of daily life at the Air Force Instruction Regiment (LIR) On the Krayenhoffkazerne in Nijmegen.Hier come the conscript soldiers of the Royal Netherlands Air Force for their first turnout as a Rekrup.later the name of the LIR was amended in the Air Force instruction and military courses School (Limos).

Ilgod package for the messle

Anefo photo collection. Make harmless v1 in Hoogvliet subwijk in Rotterdam; Specialists from the mine clearance service in the pit where V1 is located. August 24, 1978. Rotterdam, South Holland

Red Cross worker giving food to a Polish-American soldier, 1918

Officer unlocking gate , Ordnance industry, Armories, Gates, Military officers, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

A painted portrait of lieutenant admiral c.e.L. Helfrich (1886-1962), 1957.

08/31/1936. Militias in charge of distributing bread to the troops guarding the prisoners of the Alcázar of Toledo.

An Air Force sergeant (left) bends over the stretcher of a woman who was injured when a Metro bus overturned outside the main gate of Bolling Air Force Base. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

WW2 - British Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - shown here building railway sidings. Date: 1942

The Fuehrer must be impressed with the military-mindedness of young Italy! Youngsters of the Balilla Fascist Military Boys Organisation are honored by mounting guard over II Duce's Roman offices for the first time. Note the correct "Roman step." May 04, 1938.

Anzac day dawn service at Shire of remembrance. April 25, 1947.

Man Looking at U.S. Army Recruitment Sign, Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA, John Vachon for Farm Security Administration July 1940

Anefo photo collection. Remains of Princess Wilhelmina transferred. December 4, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Disaster exercise Borssele nuclear power plant; "Radioactive contaminated area" Round Central closed. 20 1987. Borssele

Hero Worship. "Gee, I wish I was bigger", is the way little Hermie Diehl of Norfolk, Va. approached a Coast Guardsman just in port from a tour a sea duty on a 'sub-buster'.

Crossproof of the Royal Institute for the Marine (Kim). The award ceremony at Marine Sportpark Ruyghweg.

Boy pretending to be wounded soldier

Two U.S. Military Liaison Mission personnel prepare for a tour in East Germany in 1964.

Anefo photo collection. Command telegraaf; American soldiers rose entirely to American consulate, Amsterdam. January 8, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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