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Military Life in Action

Photos capturing everyday moments of military personnel, including training, preparation, and social interactions within camp settings.

Sgt. Louis Reese, of East Brunswick, N.J. getting his machine gun ready for action, while others clean their rifles.
Sgt. Louis Reese, of East Brunswick, N.J. getting his machine gun ready for action, while others clean their rifles.
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Prestwick Airport- Transport and Travel in Wartime, Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, 1944 A busy scene in the Operations Room of US Air Transport Command at Prestwick airport. One of the staff members is smoking a pipe.
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Pvt. Haydn C. Williams, A Guard With The 1199Th Military Police Company, Mans His Post At The Far End Of An 8Th Air Force Base In England; His Tiny Visitor Is From The Neighboring Village Of Deenethorpe. 1 January 1944.
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Anefo photo collection. Volunteers for Dutch New Guinea are ready for their departure in the Oirschot camp. December 12, 1958. Oirschot
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The British Army on the Home Front, 1914 - 1918
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tangerang. Soldiers are around a campfire. July 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Tangerang
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Article W.B. "Along the bridge". Three soldiers play a game card. April 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia Clerks of the Commissary Depot by railroad car and packing cases. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Military personnel, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Equipment and supplies, Burnside's Expedition to North Carolina, 1862, , Military personnel, United States, Virginia, Aquia Creek Landing.
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Second World War. For billeting. Soviet Union. Three members of the German Wehrmacht with long blacksmiths in front of a farm building
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Description: K. 8690. African signallers working an Aldis Lamp. (Picture issued: 1945) Location: Kenya Date: 1945 kenya, navy, royal, reserve, volunteer, africa
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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.
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Naval Aviation Officer's School in Baku. In the mess-ompany BOSCHMA ca. between 1915 and 1916
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Evacuation of Finnish refugees, autumn 1944.
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Dreams of War - The Empties Serve a hundred Purposes. This image depicts an empty oil drum being used as a beachside barbecue pit on an island in the South Pacific.
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Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection
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Dan Tachet
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German Army press bureau in the East
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ENGLAND-Front row, left to right: Lt. Bernard J. Rosenson; Lt. Nicholas W. Vazzy; Lt. Charles L. Brock; Lt. Robert J. Mabie; and Lt. William R. Groseclose. Second row-left to right: Lt. George D. Green; Lt. Robert J. Cooper; Lt. Hugh W. Lindsay; and
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French soldiers returning from the trenches make a halt for refreshment, c1914. Artist: Unknown
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Photograph of Cuban Refugees - USCGC Ingham Operating in Florida Straits.
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The 'Blue' watch have a sing-song on board HMCS NIAGARA, town class destroyer. An accordion, guitar and mandolin are being played by some of the sailors.
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General Kitchener and the Anglo-egyptian Nile Campaign, 1898 The Italian attache and military observer, Count Calderari and the Director of Military Intelligence, Colonel Sir Francis Wingate standing in front of railway trucks on the Sudan Military Railway, possibly near Atbara.
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British Medical Services in the Second World War The Medical Chain of Evacuation: Emergency surgery on a soldier with a broken spine at a Field Dressing Station (FDS) in the Western Desert. A mobile crane is being used to lift the man into the correct position before a plaster cast can be applied.
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Anefo photo collection. Balloon race Amsterdam E. van Droogenbroek and Duchatelet. September 2, 1950. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Underground room Of the commander of the 3rd and 4th / 72 Battalions; probably Czarkov, Russia, present-day Poland, north of Cracow; photographer: 1. Operationsarmee.
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Patriotic Support in the field at the XX. Corps command.
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Helen Green, Eliz. Harrison, Kath. Dahlgren, Lieut. Gordon
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On a German Torpedo Boat
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Japanese soldiers cutting fuel for camp , Soldiers, Woodcutting, Fuelwood, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command After a nine-hour sortie to Prague to drop propaganda leaflets, this No 77 Squadron Whitley WOp/AG thaws out with a cup of hot chocolate at Villeneuve, near Paris, 28 February 1940.
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Belgian prisoners of war. I "Thanks to the worries of the Red Cross, our people receive a hot drink." July 1940. Antwerp
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A recruit of women's help corps (VHK) fits her unmorm to the Fourier.
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Francis Crowninshield
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Pluto the dog, mascot of HMS COSSACK stood on the lap of one of the ship's company as a group of them pose during torpedo and anti-submarine exercises.
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12/01/1916. The Wounded of War. Partial view of one of the rooms of a hospital for African Troops, installed in a French town.
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US Troops in An English Village- Everyday Life With the Americans in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England, UK, 1944 Pfc Edward Shea (of 27 Wentworth Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts) sits on the bonnet of his jeep in the sunshine with local boys Freddy and Chris Kerley at the petrol station in Burton Bradstock, Dorset. According to the original caption, the gas station has been taken over by the army. Chris sits on Pfc Shea's shoulder as they share a joke.
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11/30/1911. D. Emilio Marín Agramante, 1st lieutenant of infantry in Mallorca No. 13, wounded in the foot in the combat on the 22nd day.
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The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during the First World War, France A member of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps peers out of a tent with a dog in her arms in Crecy Forest, France, on 7 June 1918.
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Ministry of Information First World War Miscellaneous Collection Mrs Kathleen Nolan (see No. 229) Shell in the press.
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