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Military Honors and Ceremonies

Visuals of military honors, awards, and dignified ceremonies from various conflicts, emphasizing respect and recognition in service.

Enns, Austria, May 9, 1945Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker CG of the XXth Corps, U.S. Third Army, and his staff, meet up with Lt-General Birukoff, CG, XXth Carde Corps, 4th Russian Army, and his staff, at the Enns River.

Royal Funeral Plans -- The Drill sergeant, assisted by a sergeant of the Grenadier Guards, measuring distances in connection with the Royal Funeral. The scene outside Marlborough house to-day. March 25, 1953. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).

Second World War. For billeting. Soviet Union. Relatives of the German Wehrmacht when celebrating outdoors

Funeral of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 November 22, 1963), 35th President of the United States, in 1963.

Goering Interview With Allied Press - May 1945. Newspapermen, Radio Commentators, Photographers, And Writers Interviewed Goering Shortly After His Capture. Major Paul Kubla, From Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Was The Interpreter.

KNVB photo collection. Players say goodbye to a dog at the station of Arnhem, just before the departure to Italy.nederland - Switzerland (2-3), played on May 27, 1934 in the San Siro stadium in Milan during the world championships in Italy. 27 May 1934. Milan, San Siro

A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Beersheba, Jan. 18, 1940. Major speaking with District Officer, Ishak Eff. Nashashibi. 1940, Israel

The Royal Navy in the Second World War- Personalities Rear Admiral C B Barry, DSO, on his appointment as Admiral (Submarines) sitting at his desk at Northways.

DN-ST-89-10835. Base: Naval Base, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Phillip Davenport, Jack, Keith - Sailed Waltzing Matilda Around World (Aviation). June 17, 1944.

Anefo photo collection. Defile for new minister of war fierce. July 4, 1946

JUAN CARLOS I. REY DE ESPAÑA. ROMA 1938-. FOTOGRAFIA DE DON JUAN CARLOS I EN LA ACADEMIA MILITAR DE ZARAGOZA COMO CADETE.

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard Living Memorial Municipality at Airborne Cemetery of Oosterbeek, where victims of the Battle of Arnhem lie in 1944; Text degraded. September 16, 1969. Oosterbeek

Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. German Wehrmachiger at the window of a service room (well with the Hague)

Hospitals & Operations - War File. May 17, 1943.

Three men and arc-imaging furnance , Armories, Ordnance industry, Military officers, Machinery, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

COLOMA GALLEGOS, FRANCISCO. MILITAR Y POLITICO ESPAÑOL. MUROS DE NALON 1912-1993. EN LA FOTO:. EL GENERAL FRANCISO FRANCO Y EL PRESIDENTE DEL GOBIERNO CARLOS ARIAS NAVARRO DURANTE EL ACTO DE JURA COMO MINISTRO DEL EJERCITO DE FRANCISCO COLOMA GALLEGOS. 11/06/1973. MADRID.

Soldiers relaxing and laughing. Red Square. Moscow

General Montgomery Decorates Men of the 50th Division, Normandy, 17 July 1944 Lance Corporal R W Bennett, from Leicester, of the Royal Signals receives a Bar to the Military Medal which he won at Tripoli, for gallantry during the Normandy landings.

Modern pentathlon winners, 1928. Creator: Unknown.

DN-ST-89-10837. Base: Naval Base, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Elsevier photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina Hague Noordeinde Palace. special responsible task: detective. July 6, 1945. Hague, South Holland

Elsevier photo collection. Queen Juliana royal air force Soesterberg airbase. hand, parade "flight-fitting" place. 19 1965. Soesterberg

The Story of a Royal Marine. during January 1943, Royal Marine Barracks, Stone House, Plymouth. the Story of Richard D Emerson. Emerson listens to some words of wisdom over a glass of lemonade in the Sergeants Mess before joining.

Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard visits as an Inspector General of the Royal Netherlands Air Force visits the Group of Technology and Material Guided Weapons (GTMGW) in Hesepe (Germany). The prince leaves per Alouette II.ggw.

WA Heerbanleder Meulenberg; NSB. WA Heerbanleder Meulenberg, right in WA Uniform, speaks with a German in uniform and a member of the NSB during a short visit from a group of Germans to The Hague.

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Big Crowd For Monty's Recruiting Drive Speech: Field Marshal Lord Montgomery making his recruiting speech at the Mansion House, London, to-day (Wed).Before the streets were closed to traffic large crowds began to assemble outside the mansion house to-day (Wed) for Field Marshal Viscount ***** speech in connection with the Territorial Army Recruiting campaign. The crowd took up positions on traffic Islands and street corners and some found ledges in the Bank of England and other buildings to met a better view. Police were again out in force, but there were no disturbances like there which had marked the two previous recruiting meetings. October 06, 1948. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Poll photo collection. Reporting soldiers. Traffic jam. Officers saluting. 1945. Amsterdam

Corporal Jimmie Shohara's ribbons, Ansel Adams

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Hermann Wilhelm Goring ( 1893 ñ 15 October 1946) German politician, of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), on trial at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials 1946

They Learn To Be Sailors- Sea Cadet Training on the Training Ship HMS Undine, Bowness-on-windermere, England, UK, 1943 Boys of the Sea Cadets Corps at HMS UNDINE, Bowness-on-Windermere, listen to a lesson on the ship's compass by the officer in charge. According to the original caption, this officer holds a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

Palestine disturbances 1936 Nail picking on a Jerusalem Street, citizens ordered. 1936, Jerusalem

HEINZ RUHMANN in THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK (1960) -Original title: DER BRAVE SOLDAT SCHWEJK-, directed by AXEL VON AMBESSER.

01/18/1980. San Lorenzo de el Escorial: the Mortal Remains of HM King Alfonso Xiii received final burial in the royal pantheon of the monastery of El Escorial.

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Elsevier photo collection. visit President Nyerere van Tanzania. President Prince Bernhard Soesterberg airport national anthem. April 21, 1965. Soesterberg, Utrecht

Elsevier photo collection. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven military training Air Force Breda. DPL. SLD. Van Vollenhoven attitude. April 27, 1966. Breda

ZKH Prins Bernhard (1911-2004) visits the Van Braam Houckgeestkazerne in Doorn.

War Crimes Trial of Hideki Tojo (1884 ñ 1948) general of the Imperial Japanese Army. Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II. Tojo was arrested, sentenced to death for Japanese war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and hanged on December 23, 1948.

Hm King George Vi With the British Liberation Army in Holland, 15 October 1944 The Commander of 30 Corps, Lieutenant General B G Horrocks is made a Commander of the Bath and receives the Distinguished Service Order from HM King George VI during an investiture held at the headquarters of the Commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery. Field Marshal Montgomery is seen in the foreground.

North Korean soldiers watch a repatriation ceremony from a tower on the North Korean side Military Demarkation Line (MDL).

Lieutenant General M C Dempsey, Cb, Dso, Mc, Commander in Chief, British Second Army, April 1944 Half length portrait of Lieutenant General Dempsey studying a map.

Sweden's commander -in -chief, General Olof Thörnell and the bureau chief at the Royal Swedish Railway, Lieutenant Colonel Henrik Wrede in front of the State Railways SJ, hospital train tpnr H.39.

Elsevier photo collection. Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven military flight brew Aircraft Woensdrecht. Princess Margriet congratulates husband wing. February 23, 1968. Woensdrecht airbase

Anefo photo collection. Hundredth traffic brigade-over in Kuzemanstraat. October 27, 1950

Members of the delegation from China are given a tour of the amphibious assault ship USS TARAWA (LHA-1). Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Visit in the early 70s of Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard (1911-2004, second from the left) at Denmark. The prince has been picked up with a Danish S-61A helicopter.

German officer and doctor during a break

King Hussein Bin-Talal of Jordan is bid farewell upon their departure from the United States after his visit. Base: Andrews Air Force Base State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The Second World War- Personalities Portrait of the Viceroy of India, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell at his desk.

CHERBOURG, FRANCE-- A comandeered Nazi flag held by American soldiers after the liberation of Cherbourg, July 1, 1944

Visit Of General Montgomery To Broadcasting House - On 3rd April General Montgomery paid a private visit to Broadcasting House, where he watched a broadcast programme, attended a recording of the Brains Trust and saw the Control Room. He was also shown an exhibition of portable recording equipment developed for use by BBC War Correspondents.The General recording a message to the BBC.This is the Genuine Field-Marshal Montgomery - A Face the Enemy Knew so well happened to be passing through the next day. The Army film man was Colonel Lester.The colonel came back ***** to be end of the world if he did." "How". July 9, 1944.

Soldiers Riding in Jeep during May Day Parade, East Berlin, German Democratic Republic, May 1, 1974

BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1969), directed by GUY HAMILTON.

Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, standing in front of a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft of No. 234 Squadron SAAF. Field Marshal Jan Smuts standing in front of the aircraft in which he made his flying visits. It was an ex-South African Airways Lockheed Lodestar, which retained its natural metal finish when it became No 234 of the South African Air Force.

The Visit of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill To Caen, Normandy, 22 July 1944 The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Winston Churchill, MP, with men of the 50th Division who took part in the D-Day landings. Behind the Prime Minister is General Sir Bernard Montgomery.

Civil defense exercise. County competition for industrial fire corps and bourgeoisiers

Head Bowed, this Japanese Police Official, leave the station of Uraga Village, Japan, Between ranks of U.S. Marines, as his post is placed under control of occupation forces. October 04, 1945. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Monsigneur Bishop Patruska & General Tokarzewski (Polish) & other officers on terrace of Dom Polski, Old City. Polish General Michal Tadeusz Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski (1893-1964) with Bishop Patruska. 1940, Jerusalem, Israel

The Second World War- Personalities Lieutenant General R M Scobie, General Officer Commanding Allied Land Forces Greece, at his desk looking at a map with his Brigadier General Staff, Brigadier H S K Mainwaring at his headquarters in Athens, Greece.

Hm King George Vi With the British Liberation Army in Belgium, October 1944 Brigadier J A W Bennett is made a Companion of the British Empire by HM King George VI during an investiture held at the headquarters of the Canadian Army in Belgium.

Mrs. Dean L. Bruce is assisted by her husband and GYSGT A. K. Willford, dining facility manger, in cutting the ribbon to official open Bruce Hall. The building was named after their son, PFC Daniel D. Bruce. LGEN Joseph C. Fegan, commanding general, is looking on. Base: Marine Cd And Ed Com, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

07/14/1959. Delivery of Shipments in San Javier. His Royal Highness Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón guarding the flag during the celebration of the campaign mass.

Anefo photo collection. President Seneghor van Senegal left Ypenburg again after state visits; President Senghor says goodbye to national police. October 25, 1974

Commodore observer M. de Swart, born in 1914.Director of the Air Force Staff School (LSS) from 17 October 1966 to August 4, 1972.

Naval Officers of World War I. Painting by Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857-1940). Oil on canvas (264,1 x 514,4 cm), 1921. Detail. National Portrait Gallery. London, England, United Kingdom. Author: Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857-1940). British artist.

A PFC is talking to a young man about enlisting in the U.S. Army circa 1940.

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