Wartime Archives and Scenes

Powerful black and white images reflecting the harsh realities of war, featuring soldiers, memorials, and aftermath scenes from various conflicts.

Marshall Islands: February 14, 1944 U.S. Marines take advantage of the protection offered by shell holes on the beach as other equipment is unloaded from their landing craft on Roi-Namur Island.

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.

Berlin, 1962. In areas where barbed wire fences replace the cement block barrier, a "death line" is formed by demolishing buildings.

mass funeral pyre, union carbide gas leak tragedy, Bhopal, madhya pradesh, India, Asia Copyright: xMukeshxParpiani/DinodiaxPhotox

''Un "Rescape" des Eparges', 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1926.

Difficult ammunition transport (Weissenbachgraben in the Seebachtal.).

Captured Russian position, Melkov, Poland, World War I, 20 July 1915. The Germans made substantial advances across Poland against the Russians in the summer of 1915. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern. The photographer is unknown.

''Notre Avance Poursuivie; Un element de l'ancienne premiere ligne ennemie, ou n'ont pas ete releves les cadavres', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

FORT APACHE (1948), directed by JOHN FORD.

Anefo photo collection. View Day "Dump" in Deelen (overview). 28 May 1947. Deelen

Marshall Islands: February 14, 1944 U.S. Marines take advantage of the protection offered by shell holes on the beach as other equipment is unloaded from their landing craft on Roi-Namur Island.

***** A Medical man of the U.S. 1st., Army viewing some of the dead Political prisoners. May 1, 1945.

The British Army in Burma 1945 Troops inspect the ruins of Ywathitgyi after its capture, February 1945.

American Dead In France - These are dead American soldiers - the first casualties in the storming of the beaches in Northern France. June 8, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Radiophoto).

Dead workers lie in Uneven Rows on floor of Barracks at German Slave Labor Camp at time of Liberation by U.S. Army, Nordhausen, Germany, photograph by Roberts for U.S. Army Signal Corps, April 1945

Artillery Transport, Bainsizza, Eleventh Battle Of The Isonzo, World War I, 1917.

The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905) was the first great war of the 20th century which grew out of the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers. As time transpired, these victories would transform the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage. The embarrassing string of defeats inflamed the Russian people's dissatisfaction with their inefficient and corrupt Tsarist government, and proved a major cause of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Northern Front -- Shells hurled by Soviet artillery burst ahead of finnish troops advancing on red army soldiers posted in the deep woods of the Northern front. Photo was flashed from Berlin to New York today by Radio. February 9, 1941. (Photo by Acme Radiophoto).

The Hundred Days Offensive, August-november 1918

''Corps a corps en Plein Ciel; Les restes des adversaires, precipites de quatre mille metres de Hauteur', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Trenches after the battle.

World War I, dead German soldiers after the fighting at Soissons, U.S. Signal Corps photograph, 1918

08/31/1936. A trench abandoned by the national army in the vicinity of the Loyola barracks.

Anefo photo collection. Ned. Forces liberate Netherlands, sleep German-built Bunkers / Kingdom Dutch Princess Irene Brigade. February 1945. Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland

Sebastopol Battle - Russian German War - War File. September 6, 1942. (Photo by Keystone).

11/30/1914. The remains of a warship. Partial appearance of the remains of the German cruiser "Emden", destroyed by English ships.

A view of Ambulance men attending the wounded. The Civil War in Spain ***** Aeroplanes bomb suburbs of Barcelona. ***** photographers just received from ***** result of the Bombing raid by seven ***** resulting in many deaths and a hundred ***** most badly hit ***** families living in the ***** Suburb of Barcelona, where the fishing ***** carried on, and other suburbs where the working ***** class live. June 03, 1937. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited.).

Vintage photograph. US Army Recruits training on infiltration course

... Tank Repairs ... with 26 India, Div., Taungup Area -- Tank track, after overhaul is refitted to the Grant while action around Taungup.Tank crews are competent ***** running repairs on their own vehicle and the efficiency of the armoured thrust through the wide Midland plains of Burma, Southwards of Mandalay depends, as on the borders of the ***** to a great extent of the swift, comprehensive repair works which can be ***** on a tank without taking it from active service for any length of time. April 1, 1945. (Photo by British Official Picture).

World War 1 - A unit of French soldiers shelter in bomb craters at the Western Front. Two dead soldiers can be seen in the foreground c.1915.

'Les Vagues D'Assaut', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII. La Guerre Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin 1916".

Front line at Bonneuil, France, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

Einzatz Gruppen (death squads) gather to execute Jews in a pit or ditch, East Europe circa 1942

'Les epaves de l'air; Les debris du zeppelin L-32 abattu a coups de canon, dans la nuit du 23 au 24 septembre 1916, et venu s'empaler sur un arbre dans la campagne du comte d'Essex', 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

05/31/1914. France's action in Morocco. The Columns of Generals Baumgarten and Gouraud during the occupation of Tazza, recently Verified.

Confederate soldiers in a trench, Battle of Fredericksburg II, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA, May 1863

The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during mid-1970 by the United States (U.S.) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War. A total of 13 major operations were conducted by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) between 29 April and 22 July and by U.S. forces between 1 May and 30 June.

Search for the bodies of crew members, explosion of the Zeppelin L2 airship at Johannisthal, October 17, 1913, Berlin, Germany, photograph by Sanden and Scherl, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XL, No 43, October 26, 1913.

El Espinar (Segovia) 6/16/1969. Members of the rescue teams search for remains of the victims of the collapse of the Los Ángeles de San Rafael tourist complex.

Sightseers were on the cliffs above the Malabar wreck all night and from dawn to-day the numbers greatly increased. April 03, 1931.

British Troops Take Mount Popa -- British infantry advance towards Mount Popa.To the North-West of Kyaukpadaung and 30 miles south-east of Pakokku, a Japanese force has been putting up stubborn resistance against the 14th., Army on Mount Popa, a 4,900-foot hill. The hill was finally cleared by troops of the British 2nd., Division on April 20th. July 16, 1945. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

World war One: French troops climb across a ruined bridge 1915

'La retraite allemande; Les restes d'un pavillon dans le parc du chateau', 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

CIVIL WAR-Photo shows Mathew B. Brady, famed Civil War photographer, in civilian clothers at the left with a Union artillery unit at Petersburg, Va.

07/24/1936. Rifles Taken by the Republicans from the National Troops.

The Battle of Manila from 3 February to 3 March 1945, fought by American, Filipino and Japanese forces, was part of the Philippines' 1945 campaign. The one-month battle, which culminated in a terrible bloodbath and total devastation of the city, was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater, and ended almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines (1942-1945). The city's capture was marked as General Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign of reconquest.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Environment Brastagi Braspoe Not Correct. A genius unit deals with the recovery of a road. November 24, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Killed Because Of Food Shortage -- This cartload of dead Ukrainian Natives wee killed by Germans unable to feed themselves - and who deemed it necessary to kill all others who night otherwise deprive their soldiers on the necessary food. July 20, 1942. (Photo by Keystone).

Anefo photo collection. Tarakan (1945). Reconstruction on Tarakan. May 1945. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Dead at Little Round-Top - position of Berdan's Sharpshooters. Title from item, Summary information from: Early photography at Gettysburg / by William A. Frassanito. Gettysburg, Pa. : Thomas Publications, c1995, page 294, Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 19280702; (DLC/PP-1928:47274). Shenkel, Jacob, 1840-1927, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 62nd (1861-1864), People, Historical reenactments, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, 1860-1870, War casualties, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Casualties, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg.

10/31/1909. A Moorish café in Cape Tres Forcas. The construction works of the Lighthouse at Cape Tres Forcas and the presence there of Troops in charge of protecting the Works, Inspired one of the many Moors who seek to earn a living in the Camps the idea of installing the Typical Cafes of that land in the vicinity of Faro. Visit Marquises of Merito To the work in last Term. -photo Suarez.

Photograph showing a generator set being unloaded from a 'York' aircraft at Gatow Airport, during the 'Berlin Airlift', 1948. Between April 1948 and May 1949 Stalin, leader of the USSR, imposed a land blockade on supplies from Western Europe to West Berlin. In response the British and American governments organised an enormous airlift to supply food and other essentials to the 2.5 million inhabitants of West Berlin. After a year Stalin conceded defeat and lifted the land blockade. Date:

Battle of Moscow - Armed with heavy shovels, a hastily assembled work force of Moscow women and elderly men gouge a huge tank trap out of the earth to halt German Panzers advancing on the Russian capital. In the feverish effort to save the city, more than 100,000 citizens labored from mid-October until late November digging ditches and building other obstructions. When completed, the ditches extended more than 100 miles.

In Eastern Prussia, the whole population is engaged in building fortification and in digging trenches and anti-tank pits. November 26, 1944. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Fire in train and snow gallery at the national border.

A collapsed British dugout, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1918. Artist: Unknown

Barcelona. March 1912. Gypsy open-air school. Students taking a sunbath on the beach after a body exercise session.

The Battle of Messines, June 1917

Photograph of Sappers of the Red Army in the strongly fortified zone near Leningrad. Dated 1941

Germans Ordered to Bury Dead.After occupying the German town of Noruhauson, the military government officer, Major David Paulette of Farmville, Va., ordered the bourgemeister of the town to get about 600 men and dig graves for the 2,500 dead political Prisoners in the camp, all of whom were unburied. Then the men were sent down to the camp ***** to the graves for buriel. May 21, 1945.

Exhausted French soldiers rest during a lull in the battle of the marne; France; 1914. World war one

Crewmen from the ammunition ship USS MOUNT HOOD (AE-29), not visible, participate in search and rescue (SAR) operations near the beached and overturned Filipino frigate RPS DATU KALANTIAW (PS-76). The ship was overtaken by Typhoon Clara. Base: Calayan Island Country: Philippines

Soerabaja, Java. A house in the native quarter wrecked by a Japanese bomb. February 1942

DA-SN-88-00431. Subject Operation/Series: OPPORTUNE JOURNEY 2-86 State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. Terror: Mass grave Anloo (Drenthe). Underground cave for people in hiding, where the resembles were found on 11 April 1945. Objects and clutter left behind. April 12, 1945. Anloo

The bodies of prisoners executed by the Ustasa in Jasenovac. The Ustasa (Croatian Revolutionary Movement) or Ustase was a Croatian fascist organization, between 1929 and 1945. Jasenovac was a concentration and extermination camp established in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.

Gen. Sub: War: World War II: General: Concentration Camps. April 01, 1945. (Photo by International News Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Sand drifts on the coast. German bunker with inscription 'Dowsing accommodation of Delfland'. 1945. The Hague, South Holland

The exhumed bodies of prisoners at the concentraton camp in Lublin, Poland. Nazis intended to get rid of the evidence of the slaughter, 1944

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Palembang. Palembang: De Doesoen Telekoek. The Kampongonhouses were also set on fire by the TNI above the heads of your own population. July 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra

NORDHAUSEN, GERMNAY--Row upon row of starved emaciated bodies fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, much-bombed German concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany. 4/25/45.

Russians Fighting In IASI, Romania -- Caption accompanying this photo received in New York by radio from Moscow, August 24, says it shows Russians fighting for IASI, Romania on the 2ng Ukrainian front. August 24, 1944. (Photo by Associated Press Radiophoto).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. In collapsed Barak on the Bidara Tjina, a street in Batavia. A beam is lifted from the body of a (dead) Boy. December 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Although the smuggler is still so fast. June 6, 1947

American Troops in Korea. January 16, 1951. (Photo by United States Information Service).

Three of the motors of a giant four-engined machine burnt out by terrific heat of incendiary-caused fires during the raid at Broome last year. January 18, 1943.

Destroyed German defence battery, Mariakerke, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers

Busy as been among the harvest - Visitors at the Malabar wreck searching among the debris washed from the wreck on to the rocks. April 04, 1931.

Anefo photo collection. Workers in sun on bunkers in Zandvoort. February 2, 1951. Noord-Holland, Zandvoort

08/31/1909. An Artillery Piece Firing at the Enemy from an Improvised Trench in Recently Taken Positions.

Infantrymen of the Seventh Australian Division moving across Vasey highway from the beach at Balikpapan. (Borneo). July 21, 1945. (Photo by Australian Official Photograph).

Another example of Jap brutality is shown in these machine gunned civilians who were mowed down next to this stone wall in the Ermita section of Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Civilians were rounded up in the basement of a nearby building under

Rows of emaciated bodies fill the yard at the Nordhaussen concentration camp, 1945

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.

Two women collect two women

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Salatiga. Repatrants to Republican area must cross a stream with luggage (demarcation line?). On the other hand, tni-people are waiting for them. December 2, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga

Photograph showing a group of captured German soldiers taking a break near the Rhine River, Germany, 1945. These men had been stripped of their weapons and are shown having a rest as they marched towards captivity in a prisoner-of-war camp. Date: 1945

Casualties of the 11th Battle of Isonzo Nabresina, Isonzo front; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 5.

The landing of the Allied forces in Normandy. June 6, 1944

'Dans la Bataille; Un coin du parc du Plessis-de-Roye conserve par nos troupes, le 30 mars 1918', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Anefo photo collection. Major damage due to cloud break in South Limburg (Valkenburg). August 10, 1982. Limburg, Valkenburg

03/31/1915. The English in Campaign. Infantry soldier on guard duty among the Ruins of a Castle. -approximate date.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Boktor. undated

Anefo photo collection. Parade Steenwijk (parent day). November 3, 1949. Overijssel, Steenwijk

Enemy equipment and soldiers knocked out by bombing and strafing attacks by fighter-bombers of Tactical Air Force lined the roads between Montelimar and Valence on the Rhone River in Southern France.

Collection 558 pH. C. Visser. Dutch ambulance in Sint-Petersburg. Photo made from observation balloon with overview of a rack with trenches. 1916

"And do you Remember -- " Memories of strenuous war days were stirred when 3,000 ex-soldier employees of Leyland Motors Ltd. recently made a pilgrimage to French battlefields. Photograph shows them in the old trenches at Hill 60 -- scene of many favous battles. October 23, 1929. (Photo by Alfieri Picture Service).

'La victorieuse offensive Russe; Une tranchee autrichienne dans une maison en ruines a Doubno, en Volhynie', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Photograph showing gunners of the Canadian First Army firing their Bofors guns during a British and Canadian offensive, Reichswald, Germany, February 1945. The Bofors gun was commonly used as an anti-aircraft weapon, but in this instance was used in support of an infantry assault. The smoke that surrounds the gunners was produced by their rapid-firing guns. Date: 1945

Crashed Comet Village Women Help In Salvage Job -- A large crowd watches as village women help in the salvage operations amid the strewn-out wreckage of the B.O.A.C. Comet which crashed about 25 miles from Calcutta with the loss of 43 lives. The crash occurred last Saturday. May 07, 1953. (Photo by United Press Photo).

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