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Military Meetings and Operations

Historic military leaders converse near aircraft, logistics activities like fueling planes, and local efforts during conflicts depict military operations from various eras.

1910s - The US Army establishes an air mail service during Wilson's administration, and the signal corps invents the telegraph (narrated in 1934).

Women soldiers in training during the Battle of Britain. 1940. England, World War Two.

Photograph of a sick child being taken from the Exodus. The ship carried Jewish emigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine. Most of the emigrants were Holocaust survivors who had no legal immigration certificates for Palestine. The British Royal Navy seized the ship and deported all it's passengers back to Europe. Dated 1947

Elsevier photo collection. Red Cross team care Veldelingenkamp Judenau Austria adopted Netherlands Schiphol Vienna. MEJ lead. G.J. Truus Vergeer (fully legal) taxed. total, 44 employees Vienna. December 10, 1956. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Train with British Indians in Gombong. GOMBONG: The Status Quolijn arrived from the Republic of a train with a number of soldiers from India, which will be returned to their country via Batavia prioc. They were part of the "International Brigade" of the REP. The army, but finally gave it preferred to return to their country of birth. At the station in Gombong, the repatriers were loaded on trucks and transported directly to Priok. 27 May 1948. Gombong, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

New Zealand Repatriates Arrive in England- Everyday Life For Repatriated Pows in Margate, Kent, England, UK, April 1945 Liberated New Zealand Prisoners of War jump down from a truck upon arrival at the Grand Hotel, Westcliff, Margate, which is being used as a reception centre. All carry kit bags or haversacks.

Smashed tail unit of the Australian National Airways Douglas airliner which crashed into the sea off Seven-Mile Beach last night with the loss of 25 lives - her whole complement. March 18, 1946.

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Walcheren (1945). Nollegat (2nd breakthrough). October 1945. Walcheren, Zeeland

H.K.H. Princess Beatrix visits army components at the Artillery Schietkamp Oldebroek, at 't Harde and in Elspeet.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Ambarawa. Ambarawa: Soldiers push it undamaged train set on the right track. July 28, 1947. Ambarawa, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Finnish refugees in Haparanda, autumn 1944.

American Recruits going to Camp Upton, a U.S. Army Installation, during World War I, Yaphank, Long Island, New York, USA, Bain News Service, September 1917

Italian soldiers on board a train leaving for Ethiopia, October 27, 1936, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. Ground crew servicing and refuelling a Hawker Tempest Mark V of No. 56 Squadron RAF in flooded conditions after the heavy rains at B80/Volkel, Holland.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Train protection by 2-2 Regiment Hussars van Boreel. Day and night the hussars of Boreel driving in their sand trolleys up and down to secure a railway line in East Java, assisted by any Indonesian railway people. A look from a sand bags while driving. As a Buddha image, the commander, waiting master Robbedrecht from Rotterdam is at the front, tense across the job, ready to cope with eventualities. 23 May 1949. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Six medics transport a wounded soldier on a stretcher into an ambulance, somewhere in Korea. Buildings and telephone poles appear in the background.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit from the army commander S.H. Rail to Semarang. Colonel P. Alons on a platform of a station building, which is partially visible, with camouflage hits. July 1, 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang

News media representatives, Navy officers and naval shipyard employees watch as the drydock is filled with water and the battleship NEW JERSEY (BB-62), is put afloat once more. The ship is being returned to service after 12 years in mothballs. Base: Long Beach State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Four medics transport a wounded soldier on a stretcher into an ambulance, somewhere in Korea. Buildings surround the area.

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. The occupier, the occupation in the Netherlands, first months: (May to Nov. '40). Amsterdam police are looking at the German military vehicle during the arrival of German occupation army. 16 May 1940. Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 Two Wren aircraft checkers look over every part of the aircraft to make sure that everything is in place before a flight. Aircraft checkers work in pairs and work their way down a checklist.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia at Great Bitter Lake in Egypt. Record creator Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (1882-1945). Date 14 February 1945.

An Air Force Special Activities Center (AFSAC) Human Intelligence Resources (HUMINT) Augmentation Team (HAT) administration kit is loaded on a truck. The kit will be placed aboard a helicopter and transported to Grenada for use during the multiservice, multinational Operation URGENT FURY. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Unknown

Destroyer USS Farenholt launched with champagne in Staten I.,NY, 11-19-41.

Anefo photo collection. Mn Merchant Navy / Anefo London series. On Dutch passenger ship employed troop transport. Crew Anti-aircraft gun looks visor. 1944. Canada

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.

HR.MS. Jaguar

The so-called Crash Crane of the Marine Gate Camp Valkenburg. Captain at sea K.G Tiel (left) in conversation with the designer. Is part of Object series AVDKM 53125 to 53131.

refugee; woman; running; Spanish; French; border, Spanish Civil War; civilian

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