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Military Tents and Camps

Various military tents depicted in historical settings, showcasing field operations and living conditions for soldiers during war.

Maj. H.H. Humphrey and others | Library of Congress
Maj. H.H. Humphrey and others | Library of Congress
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The "I'll be damned" expression on the face of Capt. James Banks McFadden, Great Falls, S.C., an All-American halfback at Clemson in 1939, is understandable. Years of high school, college and professional football left him without a scratch but an
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. Two officer pilots of a squadron of No. 170 Wing do their laundry outside their tent at an airfield in Burma.
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Operating Tent, Camp Letterman, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1863 Possibly by Weaver Brothers. Operating Tent, Camp Letterman, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 286006
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American Officers And Enlisted Men Who Were Members Of The Summer Detachment Board A Special Train On The Siding At Poltava Airbase, One Of The Shuttle Bombing Bases In Russia, 15 October 1944.
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Encampment of the Bonus Army Marchers in Washington DC. The Anacostia flats 'Hoovertown' was built from materials scavenged from a nearby rubbish dump. The veterans built sanitation facilities, and held daily parades. All residents were required to register and prove they had been honorably discharged. June 11, 1932.
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African American Solider in the Spanish American War, African-Americans
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Anefo photo collection. Camp Mheer. August 12, 1950. Mheer
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Evacuation of Finnish refugees, autumn 1944.
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01/01/1922. Melilla on the Kert line. General view of the camp occupied, in Tauriat Hamet, by the King's regiment.
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British Army Maneuvers In Egypt -- The tent village where the Royal Sussex are encamped in the dessert during the Maneuvers. Members of the Royal Sussex Regiment stationed in Egypt have been taking part in maneuvers in the Wadi Sofea desert. They have been living under canvas while carrying out trench digging exercises in gas masks, laying field telephones etc. February 7, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).
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Hanover Court House, Virginia (vicinity). 12-pdr. Howitzer captured by 17th New York & 12th Maine Regiments. (Butterfield's Brigade). Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Curtiss Kittyhawk Pilots of No. 239 Wing RAF report to their Commanding Officer's tent at Marble Arch, Tripolitania, after a sortie against retreating Axis forces in Libya. An ambitious plan, to airlift a whole fighter wing complete with necessary maintenance staff, equipment and supplies, to a forward landing ground in order to support the Eighth Army's most advanced elements in Libya, was carried out the day after the New Zealand Division secured Marble Arch on 17 December 1942. During the morning of 18 December, while transport aircraft mounted 79 sorties, flying in 160 tons of personnel and equipment, 239 Wing's four squadrons of Kittyhawks arrived at Marble Arch and by 1.30 pm were flying their first fighter-bomber sorties in support of the New Zealand Division from the landing ground.
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Poll photo collection. War volunteers in Malacca and Indonesia. Improvised showers in the Tiger Lane Camp at Ipoh. March 13, 1946. Ipoh, Malacca, Malaysia
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Company Street , Tents, Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Drink stand. Military review at the Longchamp racecourse, Paris (16th arr.) "Photo Club de Paris. Aristotype. 1914. Paris, Musée Carnavalet. Paris, Musée Carnavalet. 100468-15 Military review
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Ceremony in the 2nd Uhlans Regiment in Czewl (III). Front of the Polish Legions in Volhynia. Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)
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1940S Tent City Military Training Quarters For Troops Ww2 Fort Dix Nj 44Th Division National Guard
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Lieutenant-General Grant at his head-quarters / photographed by Brady. | Library of Congress
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Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Wedding posts on a striking tree next to a signboard in dunes on the North Sea (probably at The Hague)
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Earthquake in sicily, gibellina, belice, Italy, 1968
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German Prisoners of War in Britain- Everyday Life at a German Pow Camp, UK, 1945 German Prisoners of War are examined by German doctors as they sit up in their beds in the 'ward' of the camp hospital at a PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. A fir wreath is suspended from the ceiling of the Nissen hut used which serves as the hospital, indicating that it is probably Christmas-time.
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Photographic print of Cavalry Commander George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) with his dog during the American Civil War. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Custer was called to serve with the Union Army. Dated 1865
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US Civil War, Peninsula Campaign, April-August, 1862. Lieut. George Armstrong Custer seated in front of a camp tent with dog. The photo was possibly taken during a break in fighting after the Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines at Cumberland Landing. Photo by James Gibson (BSLOC_2018_7_112)
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Anefo photo collection. Registration participants Four Days Marches of Nijmegen, overview Tentenkamp of soldiers. July 17, 1972. Nijmegen
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Gaul i.e., Gall | Library of Congress
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Former NPS Director Ronald Walker at Eskimo fish camp along Kobuk River. Alaska Task Force Photographs