Soldier Life During WWI

Photographs capturing daily life and tasks of soldiers during World War I, including grooming and training activities under challenging conditions.

"Sgt. Gallivan, 53rd Pioneers Infantry, shaving in Rattontaut, France. Despite limited access to hot water, soldiers would find alternative ways to maintain personal hygiene. Photo taken on Sept. 16, 1918 by an unidentified photographer. This photograph was reviewed by the A.E.V. censor and issued on Oct. 23, 1918."
"Sgt. Gallivan, 53rd Pioneers Infantry, shaving in Rattontaut, France. Despite limited access to hot water, soldiers would find alternative ways to maintain personal hygiene. Photo taken on Sept. 16, 1918 by an unidentified photographer. This photograph was reviewed by the A.E.V. censor and issued on Oct. 23, 1918."
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Unloading "Morale" on the Riviera Beach. Instruments of war and music come out of the Coast Guard-manned LCVPs that nose into the Riviera beaches and drop their chins. Here, Coast Guardsman John W. Brown lugs a bass fiddle ashore in preparation for a red cross entertainment. Brown, pharmacist's mate first class, is master of ceremonies for the ship's band aboard a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport.
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Blood Plasma Saves Lives on Invasion Beaches. On the beach of Eniwetok Atoll, Coast Guard and Marine invaders give life-saving blood plasma to a comrade, shot down in the terrific fighting that eliminated the Japs and planted the American flag firmly in this Marshalls stronghold.
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Germany-Two German officers who surrendered when the city of Aachen, Germany, fell are shown gazing skyward at 9th Air Force dive-bombers which were still patrolling the air above the Nazi town during capitulation of the garrison.
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Fotocollectie anefo. Nica. Jamna, Joka, Kotanica. January 1, 1944. Irian Jaya, Nica City
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Soldier Pvt. T.R. Shaw, S.C., is seen in this photograph taken on September 21, 1918, by photographer RECO 2-26-19. The image shows the Q.M. C. Kitchen in 1st Army Park, where German prisoners of war work as cooks and K.P.'s. Located in Fleury, Meuse, France. Annotations: 39387
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Soldiers at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas work at a bombing factory during World War One. This photograph, taken on June 6, 1918, captures the American military activities at the Signal Corps Aviation School. The soldiers are engaged in the production of bombs and are wearing uniform for safety and protection.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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A Partisan soldier sitting on a Pillbox made and used by the Germans on the main street in the village of Vinkovci, Yugoslavia.
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Members of the 3rd Officers Training School at Camp Lewis are shown on a salmon spearing trip on the Hisqually River, near Camp Suvis in American Sauce, Wash. The photograph, taken by S.n. Jackson on January 25, 1918, captures the group with their catch of the day, weighing 150 lbs. This image was released by W.O.D. to Photo Diy on February 12, 1918.
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Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, episode I, section 4: Indian group , Anniversaries, Historical pageants, Indians of North America. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs
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Cáceres, 1936-1939. Spanish Civil War. A villager defending a front area.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Veteran migrant agricultural worker examining contents of his trunk, camped on Arkansas River in Wagoner County, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Wagoner County
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Soldiers posing under the tree unknown
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First Razzia on Jews; Photo and collage book 'The Hidden Camera'. Two photos of the Jews Consideration in Amsterdam: Jews are driven together by the "Ordnungspolizei" from the Jodenbuurt (photo above). On Jonas Daniël Meyerplein, the Jews are forced to kneel on the ground (photo below). The raid took place on February 22, 1941. A second followed on 23 February. 427 Jews were arrested. One survived the war. These raids were the reason for the February strike.
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Lieutenant General Robert E. Cushman, Jr. is seen here at Con Thien Combat Operations Center (COC) Bunker during the Vietnam War. This photo was taken on October 2, 1967, and shows officers and officials including Hubert Humphrey, Gen. William Westmoreland, and Sen. Harry F. Byrd. It was obtained from the Defense Department's photo archives (Marine Corps) and is reference number A189454.
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Civilian Conservation Corps - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Balfour visit airship wreck. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Balfour examining the wreck of one of the Zeppelins brought down on the night of the 23-24th. Sept. 1916. 23 september 1916. Groot-Brittannië
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Photograph showing a AU Field Buzzer used on telegraph or wire line during World War One. The photograph was taken on June 24, 1918 and received from Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co. The photo description number is 20712.
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Naval Stores - Florida. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Smokejumpers: In Action - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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German bombing plane caught in wire entanglement and brought down by the 1st Division in Francastl, France on May 30, 1918. The photograph shows the plane's enormous double six-cylinder engine and structural work. The image was taken by Pvt. Longacre, S.C. and is subject number 13942. It was received on July 2, 1918 and cleared by the A.E.F. Censor on June 19, 1918.
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Smokejumpers: In Action - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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First Aid on the Beach of Eniwetok. Picked up wounded on the fighting lines and brought back to the beach on a stretcher, an American invader will be given blood plasma before his transfer by a Coast Guard-manned landing craft to an assault transport anchored off Eniwetok Atoll. This prompt use of blood plasma saves countless lives.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Horse No.1316 in a front view at Veterinary Hospital #9 in St. Nazaire, Loire-Inferieure, France. Photographed by Cpl. Earl E. Evans on March 27, 1919. This image was part of Subject 78267 and was included in a military collection of photographs taken during World War One. The horse's condition and purpose are not specified.
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Filipino, 98, Gives Happy Hand to Coast Guardsman. Coast Guardsman Carol Smith, gunner's mate, first class, encounters a native Filipino, Paz Peneda, 98 years old, in a village on the island of Leyte in Philippines soon after American forces had driven out the Japs. The aged Filipino couldn't speak a word of English, but his smile spoke plainly of his welcome for the bronzed Coast Guardsmen. They are in front of 'Grandpa' Peneda's home, where he slept through the naval bombardment that preceded invasion.
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Naval Stores - Florida. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Smokejumpers: In Action - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Members Of The Chemical Warfare Staff Are Gathered About A Gas Warning Gong During A Class At Kunming, China, 10 January 1943. They Are, Left To Right: Sgt. Robert Frazier, Duncan Falls, Ohio; Sgt. Edward Davis, Jessup, Georgia; Lt. Ralph Thompason, La
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Hunting - New Hampshire. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Coast Guard Combat Photog Covers Luzon Action. Coast Guard Combat Photographer, Rene Prevost, of 564 W. 189th St., New York, N.Y., lies in a Luzon fox hole watching his chance to photograph more action scenes during the initial assault on the main Philippines island. Prevost has been stationed the past 18 months aboard a Coast Guard-manned invasion supply ship. To get his pictures he has hit the beaches from the Marshalls to the Philippines, including New Britain, Emirau, Guam, the Russells, Peleliu and other points along the invasion route. Prior to his assignment in the Pacific Prevost, stationed aboard a Coast Guard Combat Cutter, took the first Coast Guard photos of the invasion of Casablanca in North Africa. His mother, Mrs. George Blanche, lives at 2360 North Runboldt Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.
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Naval Stores - Florida. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Air-Sea Rescue Practice.
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Photograph of Australian Soldier and Coast Guard Combat Photographer Covering Japanese Pillbox. Jap Flushing. No covey of quail was ever flushed more thoroughly than this Jap on Balikpapan, Borneo, who'll come out of his hole with his hands held high or not come out at all, an Australian Soldier, landed on Borneo from a Coast Guard-manned LST on D-Day, covers the Jap pill box, while Coast Guard combat photographer Gerald Anker of Los Angeles, Cal., does the same with his camera.
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Kroonenburg and Loenen for this.
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Fishing - West Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Collection of World War I Photographs, 1914-1918 that depict the military activities of British and other nation's armed forces and personnel during World War I.
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Washington. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Photo collection First World War. The victorious German-Austrian Offensive to the Isonzo. A Bavarian beered in the occupied Vittorio .. 1914-1918}. Italy, Vittorio
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On coastal guard in Holland!, Anonymous, 1940 - 1941 photograph Album magazine with two photos by Heinemann on watch at the coastal defense. Part of the photo album 'Kriegszeit in Holland' about the service time in the Netherlands by Hans Heinemann from a Flak Regiment of the Luftverteidigungskommando of the Luftwaffe. Netherlands paper. photographic support gelatin silver print guard duty, keeping sentry Netherlands
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Naval Stores - Florida. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Coast Guard Writer Wounded on Luzon. Stepping from a Coast Guard-manned landing craft into the shallow surf washing Luzon's beach, Coast Guardsman Jack B. Cole was wounded when a jagged mortar fragment ripped hi right hand. A correspondent and Chief Specialist, Cole was covering the landing and hitting the beach in one of the early assault waves when he was hit. Here, his wound is being dressed by a Coast Guard Pharmacist's Mate in a pen-and-ink sketch by a shipmate, Coast Guard Combat Artist Jack B. Gildersleeve, 28, Specialist Second Class, of Buffalo, N.Y. and formerly of Indianapolis, Ind. and Chicago, Ill. Coast Guardsman Cole's home is at 353 E. 56th Street, in New York City.
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Officers Of The 364Th Service Group Brewing Coffee On Improvised Earthen Stove Made From Gasoline Soaked Coral. They Are Left To Right: Chief Warrant Officer James H. Pittenger, 1921 West Street, Muncie, Indiana; Captain Chester G. Minton, Chaplain, 1908
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Collection 558 pH. C. Visser. Photo album fisherman: Third karakorum expedition, 1929-1930. Album leaf with three photos. Above top: Running from wool for the home of the expedition members in Yarkand; Jenny Visser-Hooft right; Bottom left: the city wall of Yarkand; On the right the Ambaan Yang in Yarkand. November 3, 1929. China, Yarkand
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Civilian Conservation Corps - Camps - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Wounding aid, general. Red Cross etc. England .. Battle of Estaires (Stegers). A miltaire doctor handles a wounded soldat. April 11, 1918. France
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A Guerra Ilustrada . Contributor: Coordenador dos Assuntos Interamericanos. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters
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"American soldier engaging with Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War. The image captures a People to People interaction, showcasing an effort to establish relationships and provide support to local communities. This photograph was taken on July 24, 1962, during the early phases of American military involvement in Vietnam."
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Republican soldier breaks open a wagon, 1949 documentary photographs Republican soldier breaks a wagon open with a second guerilla driver on the right of him. photographic support Indonesia
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Photograph of Coast Guardsmen at Tokyo Imperial Palace. Coast Guardsmen On Imperial Jap Grounds. One week before our troops arrived in Tokyo, two Coast Guard Combat Photographers and one Coast Guard Combat Correspondent reached Tokyo and made a tour of the city, including the grounds on which the Imperial Palace is situated. Standing in and about their Jeep at the right are (left to right): Harmon F. Lougher of 1735 San Lorenzo Ave, Berkeley, Calif.; a Jap interpreter; John Papsun, 1028 University Drive, Route 4, Birmingham, Mich.; and Harvey Twyman, Coast Guard Correspondent of Omaha, Neb. Their Jeep and the Army Jeep at the left are outside the Palace.
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Seville, 06/03/1934. The Falangists hold their first rally at the Estremera airfield to hear a speech by José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The event was interrupted by the Civil Guard, the Founder took all responsibilities.
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Surveys - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Cape Gloucester Wounded. Through the open bow doors wounded invaded are brought aboard a Coast Guard manned LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) in a heavy down-pour of rain at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Coast Guardsmen are helping the stretcher bearers. A short time before mechanized equipment rolled out these doors. A Coast Guard and Navy manned LSTs took part in the invasion.
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Team Work Of Yankee Invaders Wins Guam. This image depicts U.S. Marines as they salute the U.S. Coast Guard after the fury of battle had subsided and the Japs on Guam had been defeated.
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Gen. Tsuchiyas' private mess camp , Military cookery, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
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"African American soldier smiling during a gas mask drill. The soldier found something amusing and couldn't help but smile. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer, date unknown. Released by A.E.P. Censor. Image number: 25039."
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Elsevier photo collection. piece heath lost Army site Oldenbroek. voluntary fire brigades Heerde Epe, assisted fireplace artillery shooting camp, succeeded keeping fire. August 1938. Oldenbroek
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Bayonet frill, Indiantown Gap, Pa. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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A Usaaf Bomber Station, England -- A Refreshing Draught Of Goat'S Milk After The Day'S Heavy "Flying Fortress" Raid On Germany, Is Drawn Off By S/Sgt. Roy D. Crozier, 19 Yers Old Bottom Turret Gunner Of Orlando, Fla., While His Partner, 21 Year Old Radio