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Military Life in Historical Contexts

Archival footage illustrating military life, including training experiences, challenges faced by airmen, and historical contexts from World War II.

1944 - A funeral is held for Filipino President Quezon in Washington DC, and his body is taken to Arlington National Cemetery to rest until it can be safely returned to the Philippines.

Sentry boxes in Germany (historical), Couples in love in Germany, Army of Saxony, 1913, Meißen, Schützen Schilderhaus

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KLM captain Ivan Smirnoff for a microphone, 1933 photograph Album magazine with a photo of captain Ivan Smirnoff from KLM device De 'Pelikaan', the device that brought Christmas and New Year's post from Amsterdam to Batavia in December 1933 in a record time. Part of the memorial album of the Indies line of KLM, part I. Netherlands paper. photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print airborne traffic, aviation. travelling; tourism. pilot Netherlands

Police dispatch (412)

Anefo photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina back in The Hague. Queen Wilhelmina is met by Mayor De Monchy. July 6, 1945. The Hague, South Holland

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Tjiawi and surroundings, purification actions. Even too often it is necessary that the soldiers must act acting to put an end to the terror in the population in our area. Especially in the area around Tasikmalaja, it is often very restless, whose afreath is purified by soldiers. Connection of the foreclosure among themselves is particularly interested in many importance. The radio telegrist Kulling from Amsterdam behind his transmission receiving device. October 12, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. T. V. "Police". March 8, 1961

Hospital for the disabled at Villa Bondi in Florence.

Anefo photo collection. Film recording for ¨theirs is The Glory¨ (Battle of Arnhem). Scriptgirl and film crew at interior shot. August 1945. Arnhem, Gelderland

***** Survivor of U.S.S. Panay Helped Aboard Flagship - Mr. J. Hall ***** a secretary of the U.S. Embassy in ***** King who was wounded during the Japanese ***** attack on the U.S. Gunboat Panay in ***** Yangtse River, being assisted aboard ***** flagship August at Shanghai. Though ***** in the body with Shrapnel, he ***** in succoring other survivors with ***** he escaped ashore. January 1, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Three 2,000-pound Bombs awaiting Transport from Factory, Ravenna, Ohio, USA, Office of War Information, March 1943

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Loyalist machine gunners, 1937.

The carabiniere Giuseppe Giordano sitting at the desk in a bedroom. Giuseppe Giordano took part in the arrest of the Italian robbers and members of the Banda Cavallero Pietro Cavallero and Sante Notarnicola. 1967

In modern Chinese history, White Terror (Báisè Kongbù) describes a period of political suppression enacted by the Kuomintang party under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. It began in 1927 following the purge of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. On April 12, 1927, Chiang initiated a purge of Communists from the Shanghai Kuomintang and began large-scale killings in the 'Shanghai massacre of 1927'. Chiang's forces turned machine guns on 100,000 workers who had taken to the streets in labour union demonstrations, killing more than 5,000 people. Throughout April 1927 in Shanghai, more than 12,000 people were killed or had disappeared. The Chinese Communist Party was virtually extinguished. At the beginning of 1927, the Chinese Communist Party had about 60,000 members. By the end of the year, no more than 10,000 remained. Following the Shanghai massacres, Mao Zedong and the CCP adopted the road of agrarian revolution, based on the rural peasantry rather than the urban proletariat.

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