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Naval Operations During WWII

Authentic images of naval crews aboard ships, focusing on operations, equipment handling, and military readiness during World War II.

Aircraft, Burma, India &Maintenance,MISCELLANEOUS War

Göta lion (depicted - name).Göta Lion (depicted - name)

The Royal Navy during the Second World War At HMS RALEIGH, the naval training base at Torpoint, Cornwall, new recruits to the Navy loading the projectile into the breech of the 6 inch gun. The gun is indoors in a large room. This photograph is taken from a series of images following the progress of a man (John Smith) joining the Royal Navy and going through training. John Smith was apparently thankful for the physical training that has made lifting the heavy shells possible for him.

Anefo photo collection. War Museum Overloon (1945). Attic with all kinds of weapons and objects. 1945. Overloon

Men Of The Allied Forces Receive Practical Instruction On Models Of All Types Of Planes At This School On Maintenance Of Guns And Turrets At An Raf Station, Kirkham, England. In A Consolidated Tail Turret, Cpl. Robert L. Easley, Covington, Kentucky, Is L

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC General Meijer visits external posts of the "V" Brigade. Two military police mass with a row of sandbags or bales within a building a tear runs through the wall. July 20, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

Canadian Troops - Arctic & Ski Troops - Foreign Troops. April 23, 1951. (Photo by Wartime Information Board).

Operations SPECIALIST SEAMAN Apprentice Michael Wick puts a bottle into the new glass crusher at the Naval Education and Training Center. Base: Newport State: Rhode Island (RI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Four Sailors in the Radar Room

Royal Air Force Film Production Units, 1941-1945. Sergeant Barrie Monteney examines a spool of film with her commanding officer, Squadron Leader E P G Moyna (left), at No. 1 RAFFPU, Stanmore Park, Middlesex.

Engineman 2nd Class Edward Hunt monitors the engine speed of the ocean minesweeper USS EXPLOIT (MSO-440) as the vessel travels to Naval Amphibious Base, Norfolk, Va. While the Exploit remains at the base, its 82 crew members and officers will deploy to the Middle East to replace the crew of the ocean minesweeper USS ADROIT (MSO-509). ADROIT's current crew has been operating in support of Operation Desert Shield since September. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown

Bomb Builder At Work -- Lester P. Barlow (above), Baltimore, Md. inventor, whose secret testimony before a berate committee recently about explosives he has developed was considered so "hot" it was burned, is shown at work in his laboratory shack on the outskirt of Baltimore, MD., March 15. Barlow has been called back to Washington to testify March 18 before a joint congressional committee in the presence of the secretaries of war and navy. March 15, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press photo).

Anefo photo collection. Sint Nicolaas cakes DueceKater. December 4, 1945

T/Sgt. Robert T. Kennedy, Consolidated B-24 Liberator Engineer of 22 Sentinile Rd., Lake Placid, N.Y., is shown wearing the new flak helmet in his Waist Gun Position of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator attached to a Bomb Group. High percentage of

Arms recoverer working on a browning heavy machine gun .50 inch clamped between a record vice and a special buck.

Functional portrait of a seiner. Is part of Object series AVDKM 530581 to 530583.

Royal Air Force- the Czechoslovakian Air Force in the United Kingdom, 1939-1945. A class of Czech airmen receiving a practical lecture on the engine controls of a Fairey Battle at No. 2 School of Technical Training at Cosford, Shropshire.

AGMR-1 Annapolis Inclining Experiment , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Anefo photo collection. Black trade Razzia The Hague. December 5, 1945. The Hague, South Holland

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Stripped to the waist and framed in gauges and controls, one of the crew of a midget submarine at his action station. The submarine (also known as an X Craft) was one of the British Pacific Submarine Fleet based out of Sydney, Australia.

Telephone booth of a section commands on the Koralpe. .

Railway staff.

Man looking at meterorite , Armories, Ordnance industry, Meteors, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Fireman 3rd Class Forest monitors gauges in fireroom No. 1 aboard the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63). Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

A soldier is looking for his luggage after a journey with the M.S "Johan van Oldenbarnevelt" from the Dutch East Indies.

Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Mark Davis, "Sailor of the Year" for the medium auxiliary floating dry dock SUSTAIN (AFDM-7), uses a voltage tester to check a generator. Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The ROKs Have a Fighting Navy - The Republic of Korea has a Navy of approximately 50 ships and ten thousand officers and men. Whatever the ROKs lack in numbers they more than make up for in fighting spirit. To the ROKs falls the lion's share of the close inshore patrol and blockade of the long Korean coastline, a job that calls for their shallow draft craft and their aggressive sailors. Commando and behind-the-lines operations are a day in and day out job of the ROK Navy and Marine Corps. Pattern after U.S. Navy organisation , the ROK Navy, man for man and ship for ship, compares favourable with any in the world. June 18, 1951. (Photo by Official U.S. Navy Photograph).

T 47 (depicted - name).T 47 (depicted - name)

Fishing inspection in the North Sea with the frigate of predator class Hr.Ms. Wolf (F 817) (1954-1984) (EX-USS PCE 1607). During the Stavurben period in Hamburg there is time for relaxation.

Anefo photo collection. In Den Helder is practiced by Belgian naval crew for training to diver. One of the Belgians in Diving Pack - a Z.G. Investment suits, since a short time at the Dutch navy in use - ready to descend from the divers' training vessel. Completely right one of the other Belgians, which is in training for diver. September 12, 1951. Den Helder, Noord-Holland

DN-SN-88-06649. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Low angle view of cameramen standing on rooftop (OV2023_244)

Lester Barlow - Us Inventor Of New Bowls. April 22, 1940.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A typical day in the life of an able seaman on board a battleship of the Home Fleet. Here he is sat at the focsle splicing or flaking down rope's ends on board HMS ANSON.

Horrie Dargie, well-known harmonica player, has joined the AIF in an entertainment unit. Since the beginning of the year Dargie has been doing a full-time job in a munitions factory. He is the brother of William Dargie, official war artist. November 16, 1942.

Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The interior of the Operations Room at Coastal Command Headquarters at Eastbury Park, Northwood, Middlesex. A WAAF officer in the foreground is plotting the course of an aircraft, while two WAAF special duties clerks alter the position of a convoy. The clerk on the ladder is wearing a safety harness.

New Device Aids Plane Landing - Mrs. Phyllis Barnes points a Volscan light gun at the "blip" of an incoming jet plane on radar scope in demonstration of new electronic method of controlling planes at an air base. Watching demonstration at Fort Dawes here today is Benjamin F. Greene, Jr., director of the project developed by U.S. Airplane's "blip" with a yellow square of light called a tracking gate which follows its course as the plane nears the air base. December 07, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Hand Tool Exhibit - Cambrai (Magazine Unit). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Munitions - Canada - Canadian War Scenes. June 21, 1943. (Photo by The National Film Board).

Anefo photo collection. Walcheren. Walcheren. November 8, 1945. Walcheren, Zeeland

Hungarian soldier wearing a new type of gas mask with a microphone to enable conversation during a gas attack. Nov. 10, 1939.

Elements at the Marine Inspection and Selection Center (TripAdvisor), which is located in the field of the Marine Training Camp (Mokh) at the emergency road in Hilversum, get their bed linen.

Film Show at Highest Village in the Highlands- Ministry of Information Film Screening, Tomintoul, Banffshire, Scotland, UK, 1943 Ministry of Information Film Operator John Macdougall explains his Bell & Howell projector to a group of villagers in the Memorial Hall in Tomintoul. Amongst the crowd are the local policeman (third from left) and a member of the local Home Guard (far right). The man in the foreground is smoking a pipe as he inspects the workings of the film equipment.

1 military, 3 civilians..

Subjects: Jim King Collection; Work of the Service; Aircraft; Alaska. . 1998 - 2011.

Poll photo collection. Repatriation service India. Shoe cards in the Clothing center in Ataka. December 1945. Ataka, Egypt

U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, accompanied by General Omar N. Bradley, and Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr., inspecting art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in salt mine, Germany, U.S. Army Signal Corps, April 12, 1945

Look To The Skies -- After receiving target information from a radar plotter, Pvt. Kenneth E. Pierce, El Dorado, Kansas, converts it from polar coordinates to geographical reference coordinates and transmits the information by radio or telephone to the Units's Operation's Center. Pvt. Pierce is assigned to battery a, 531st anti aircraft artillery battalion, fort Bliss, Texas. December 06, 1954. (Photo by Official U.S. Army Photo).

Johan Schreil and Protective Inspector Gunnar Kristell at Karlskronavarvet February 1961 .. Johan Schreil and Protective Inspector Gunnar Kristell at Karlskronavarvet February 1961.

events Second World War WWII German Wehrmacht spotter with periscope binoculars circa 1941,

The Royal Navy during the Second World War In his anti flash gear Petty Officer Alex Holgate of Leeds, captain of the gun, replying through the voice pipe to the working chamber whilst working the control levers in a 14 inch gun turret on board HMS DUKE OF YORK returning to Scapa Flow after the sinking of the German warship, the SCHARNHORST on 26 December 1943.

Anefo photo collection. Action B. B. Command time. February 24, 1962

The Royal Navy during the Second World War Third Officer Ross, Physical Training and Welfare Officer, issuing sports gear at the new Women's Royal Naval Service (WRENS) new training and drafting depot, Westfield College which was a tender to HMS PEMBROKE I.

Instruction Taktics by Major der Mariniers 1959

Member Of The 2Nd Base Air Depot Checks Equipment In The Parachute And Textile Department At An Air Base In Lancashire, England. 1 February 1944.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Technical service V-Brigade. Tinkering to a car. Attaching a plate with registration number on the back of a Chevrolet. April 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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.

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

Evelyn Greeley & Proteges

Canteens - Military Misc - (See Also Mess Parades, Cooks Etc.). November 5, 1940.

Dog soldier hiding behind sand sacks

A "Gi" Inspects A Roll Of Film In Photographic Laboratoty On Recently-Captured Naha Airfield. Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto.

King Visits Sunday Workers At Arms Factory -- The King, with Mr. Morrison watching a Vickers machine gun being tested.The King, with Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supply visited a small arms factory near London , on Sunday where they watched the Sunday workers "go to it". August 05, 1940. (Photo by LNA).

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Mamboor sight Carele sailing waters studded reefs commandments. December 1953. Guinea

Black and White photograph of England at work despite German bombing raids during the Battle of Britain in World War II (1939-1945); a woman surveys the coast while standing guard.

Rehabilitation of British Soldiers From Normandy- the work of the Robert Jones and Dame Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK, 1944.

Armored Tank Assembly Line, World War II

Listening Station For German Counter-Espionage In Berlin, World War II.

ASPB MK 2 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Evacuatie van schuttersstukken in 1939; Evacuatie van het Rijksmuseum vanwege oorlogsdreiging, augustus - november 1939.A coffin with a shooter piece is lifted by a group of men in the underneath ride. In 1939 evacuation of many cases took place in connection with the war threat. The museum was closed.

Anefo photo collection. The cold. December 12, 1945

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Education at the police school in Suriname. October 1, 1955. Suriname

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Landing net trout from the tank. May 1958. Arnhem

DF-SN-86-12637. Base: Arnold Air Force Station State: Tennessee (TN) Country: United States Of America (USA)

1952 - Ten minutes to go and the cigarette butts pile up in the trench, as Poth and Wilson puff nervously before the atomic test at the Nevada Proving Ground.

Aunay-Sur-Odon. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard visits Zeeland Flanders (Kruiningen). October 15, 1952. Kruiningen, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen

Shock troops from the command South during the Second World War. Kitchen staff from the staff at work in the kitchen.

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

Man behind Singapore gun : Deep below the ground, a gunner swings a shell toward the elevator, which will lift it to the gun breech. February 16, 1942.

A1C Dawn Marie Temple, assisted by A1C Dale Marie McKee, loads and checks her M-16 rifle during an Air Force Marksmanship Meet. Base: Lackland Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

England, Dorset, Blandford Forum, Royal Signals Museum, Exhibit of Spy Sets Used by SOE during WWII

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