Military Life and Training

Images showcasing military preparations, soldiers on maneuvers, and daily life in military camps, highlighting equipment and uniforms from the 1940s.

Anefo photo collection. Netherlands Brigade maneuvers. Rations Dealt Days Exercise. Exercises Princess Irene Brigade.The rations altered practice three-day exercise. July 1943. Britain

The first Italian military championship manoeuvres for tanks took place recently in the presence of Signor Mussolini and high military officials.A dangerous descent by one of the tanks. April 30, 1935. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited)

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.

Shooting gun with the FAL (Fusil Automatique Léger) on the shooting range in April 1990.

01/01/1937. A soldier being shaved in the trenches.

Empty chairs and parked bicycles leaning against a dispersal hut at Hornchurch aerodrome, 7 May 1942. This image is part of a sequence of five photographs taken on 7 May 1942 at Hornchurch, and later released by the Ministry of Information to illustrate a typical offensive operation. In this photograph we see a bicycle leaning against the dispersal hut and the dog waiting patiently for its master to return from a flight.

Camp Kearny, Cal. "Anti-onion" gas mask

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Telephone repair Tjiandoer. Connection specialists at work on the roof of a building. September 1946. Ciandur, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Result of arms entrance on Amsterdam's main office. July 5, 1976. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Le Havre Arrival on "America" S. S. Orangerie Exhibit (Salut a la France). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection

London Jews in Wartime- the work of Youth Clubs in Stepney, London, 1942 Lieutenant Nat Seller, the well-known boxing trainer, instructs his son Alfred in the use of a rifle in the gymnasium of the Bernhard Baron Settlement boys' club on Berner Street, Commercial Road, East London. Note Alfred's brassard, which says 'BB Cadets'. According to the original caption, this is only the second week that they have trained with rifles.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Four soldiers, one on a staircase, engaged in an electricity house or telegraph office. October 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Ministry of Information First World War Miscellaneous Collection Food arriving at the London Docks. Meat on the runway, passing from the ship to the storage.

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.

Front cover of The Sphere showing Queen Elizabeth II laying a wreath of poppies at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Rembrance Sunday 1952, shortly after her accession to the throne. Date: 01/11/1952

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting army technical service in Meester Cornelis (Batavia). Workplace. February 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

DA-SN-88-04518. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Sensation: After the major prizes had been drawn in today's lottery, No. 1104, a mishap to the barrel resulted in the balance of the marbles spilling on to the floor. The drawing of the lottery was postponed. September 27, 1944.

Just before liberation day, many people gathered on the roof of the Haagse Bijenkorff to witness the overflowing of British bombers. Here a cameraman engaged in movie recordings.

An aviator takes part in a simulated helicopter rescue as part in the naval aviation water survival training program conducted by the Aviation Physiological Training Unit of Naval Hospital, Cherry Point. Base: Mcas, Cherry Point State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Krawnang and surroundings. Soldiers look at the cardboard packaging at a colonial house. December 25, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Emergency Mass Feeding, Fort Dix, New Jersey 1954 , Civil defense, Baking. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

1LT Jerry Mikinis and 1LT Thomas W. Steves, left to right, take down the squadron flag for the last time. The 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron, "Panther Pack," was deactivated on June 30, 1975. Base: Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base Country: Thailand (THA)

Japanese Pow (Sydney). December 1, 1949. (Photo by Official Photograph U.S. Navy).;Japanese Pow (Sydney).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC v.t. Nursing and transport service Slachterij in Medan. Medan: the farm "Our last hope" of the nursing and transport service in Medan was established when in the early 1946 the supply of fresh meat from Republican area was prohibited by the Republic. May 5, 1948. Indonesia, Medan, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Three Boys playing with Soldier Marionnettes - World War Two era. Date: circa 1940

Poll photo collection. Rome: The papal Swiss Guard in Vatican City. Wait with halberd at the stairs of kings the connection between the Sala Regia and the privilege of Sint Pieter. December 1937. Italy, Rome, Vatican City

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Arrival Red Cross-Evacuation train KNIL. For each extra train, families of TNI soldiers were transported to GOMBONG and transferred to a republican delegation there, careful for further transport. With the same train, from the Republic of Families of KNIL soldiers returned. The care was in the hands of the Red Cross Batavia. Unknowingly from all the crowds around him, this little Evacué is sleeping in the train as well as at home. May 22, 1948. Gombong, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Woman Collaborationist Is Punished In France ***** : Grande culottes, 23, of Normanr *****, pays the price for being a collaborationist ***** by having her hair sheared off by avenging ***** French patriots. Man at right looks on wit ***** grim satisfaction as tonsopial operation I ***** performed on the unhappy girl. July 10, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

E. C. Windeyer - His rain making mission. August 23, 1954.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Inspectorate General H.J. Curls by Indonesia. Unclear recording. Bird in being improvised cage. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Valencia, 1920 (Ca.). An 18-kilogram carcass next to the 25-centimeter cannon that must lift it Photo: Vicente Barbera Masip.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Radar-General Scenes - Science (See Also: Australia Army: Navy R.A.F. & General Merchant Shipping & Aviation Science). September 10, 1945. (Photo by Photographic News Agencies Ltd.).

Aviation Ordnanceman AIRMAN Sialao Fuimaono operates a scrubber truck to assist other crew members swabbing the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) during Fleet Ex 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Fallen firefighters memorial "Last Alarm", Fire & Marine station 334, Queens Quay West, Harbourfront District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Military officer loading cannon , Military officers, Cannons, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Exhibition space of the Marines Corps during the Fleet Days 1989.

Switzerland, July, 1918. These four homing pigeons on the back of their carrier are part of the pigeon express service of the Swiss Army. This vital communiication link must be maintained, as Switzerland is in the middle of warrring powers and must be ever prepared in case its neutrality is violated.

Lieutenant Commander R A Lochner, one of the designers of the Mulberry artificial harbour, working at Short Lake House, Weymouth, April 1944. Mulberry Harbour: Lieutenant Commander R A Lochner, RNVR, who originally proposed the floating breakwater (Bombardon) and led the team that developed it, at work on graphs which record the amount of swell, at the 'Hut' (Short Lake House, Weymouth) where the scientists connected with the experiment worked and lived for two months.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Airport Andir. Training parachut goods. Women fold parachutes. January 3, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Cold in the Netherlands. December 20, 1945. The Netherlands

Triangulation work in Kaluschow .

Princess Beatrix brings an introductory visit to various parts of the Royal Navy. From the watchtower at the storm track of the Van Braam Houckgeestkazerne (VBHKAZ) of the Marines in Doorn's corps in Doorn, the various actions of the Marines are lagged.

12/31/1936. Woman Washing Soldiers' Clothes in a Laundry Near the Battle Front.

Second World War. Man during an exercise insert with a flue gas cartridge (probably in Holland)

Woman kneeling next to bed of child in Underground Tunnel during World War II Bombing of London, England, UK, photograph by Toni Frissell, January 1945

Armed and dangerous (373)

Anefo photo collection. Command of Gend and Loos. September 30, 1948

Men picking up cucumbers that are rotting in a field circa October 16, 1947.

Angelus Prayer Siren during World War I, Roof of Evans Building, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, June 1918

A.T.S. Maintain Radio location - Craftswomen Doris Birt, aged 21, of Brixton London S.W., is a radio mechanic at an 4.4 command radio workshops. A clerk in an insurance company in the city before the war. She is now a highly skilled expert in repairing radio location environment. Here she is overhauling part of a radio location receiver. August 16, 1943. (Photo by London News Agency Photos).

Anefo photo collection. REPORTAGE MOD. September 24, 1947

Anefo photo collection. Art: Art treasures St. Pietersberg. A strong iron fencing protects the safe. July 27, 1945. Maastricht

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.

Danes Take Course at NATO Defense College. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Winter refuge on the Dolomites, Italy, World War I, photo by Piero Portaluppi (1888-1967) from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 10, March 5, 1916.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

04/30/1916. To discover the Enemy. Acoustic device used in the vicinity of Paris to perceive at a distance the noise of the propellers of enemy airplanes and airships.

Instruction material in use at the Marines Corps. The outstanding articles belong to the signs with the ABC instructions. In 1965 ABC was changed to NBCD and that stands for nuclear, bacteriological, chemical and damage control.

SEAMAN Ted Mitchell uses a deck grinder to remove old paint from the deck of the destroyer USS JOHN HANCOCK (DD-981). Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Private J. Brett, 1st Wiltshires (See Q. 31275)

Anefo photo collection. In Nunspeet, Queen Beatrix reaches the resistance commemorative cross on the shock troops regiment; Ban support. August 31, 1982. Nunspeet

Omar Bradley - U.S. General. January 01, 1944. (Photo by ACME)

Rehabilizing soldiers at work in the flower class of the military repair resort 'Aardenburg'.

Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection

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