Postwar Military Scenes

Images depict postwar life and military operations; soldiers navigating urban environments and searching huts. The mood reflects the transition from conflict to peace.

Air traffic controllers in control room, 1940s

Anefo photo collection. Collection of 80 armor sets for the arms hall in the Muiderslot. May 18, 1960. Muiden

This Door Foiled Rioters -- Warden James A. Johnston points to door that kept rioting prisoners from getting outside this island prison. It was the key to the door that prison guard William A. Miller threw away before convicts fatally shot him in their attempt to gain freedom. May 5, 1946. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Vintage Photograph. Police officer lurking in stairway. Frame 4

Swiss Papal Guards During The First Complete Opening Of The Bronze Door. 1920

Erzgebirge, homecoming from the field

Post Office Scene, St. Augustine, Texas, USA, John Vachon, U.S. Office of War Information, April 1943

Doorman finds drunken man sprawled in the street in front of building (OV2023_46)

Flies are one of the greatest curses of the desert Judging by this man's expression, at least a few flies are going to meet a sticky end!. February 04, 1943.

04/30/1913. Civil Guard Lieutenant Mr. Tomás Buisa y Martos, who has contributed to the capture of the Counterfeiters.

Women, marksmanship training circa 1930.

Anefo photo collection. Mn Merchant Navy / Anefo London series. Cooks Dutch merchant ship galley. June 1943. Britain, London

Anefo photo collection. Mn Merchant Navy / Anefo London series. Indonesian crew Dutch passenger ship. 1943. Britain

Britain's latest Aircraft CarrierHMS Ark Royal, launched at Birkenhead in 1950 and Commissioned earlier this year, leave soon for service in the Medierranean. She is Britain's most modern aircraft carrier, incorporating for the first time remote control for use in the event of atomic attack, and television for operational as well as entertainment purposes. She is also fitted with the angled deck, deck-edged of the royal navy to bear this illustrious name, HMS RRK Royal is engaged on flying trials in the Channel where this picture was taken, It shows the captain, Captain D.R.F. Campbell, DSC.RN., Cosinventor of the angled deck principle, using the television by which means he is able to talk to and be seen by the crow when giving orders. October 11, 1955.

Cherbourg Arms France -- What does a docker do when he has time on his hands He goes to a cafe, of course. This view of the Cafe de Paris, on the quay of the fishermen's harbour, shows Cherbourg dockers cut of work in between shipments of arms, for these are almost no other ships using the port. November 14, 1951. (Photo by Eugene Kammerman, Camera Press).

U.S. Communist leaders are taken to the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Eugene Dennis, Party General Secy, and Jacob Stachel, Propaganda Director, were beginning five-year sentences. July 6, 1950

Backstabber (OV2019_116)

Naranjo de Bulnes (Asturias), February 1970. Rescue of the mountaineers Gervasio Lastra and José Luis Arrabal. In the image, José Luis Arrabal being taken to the Vega Urriello shelter.

First World War soldier, she loves me, she loves me not, historic photgraph, around 1915

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