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.
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.
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Photograph showing the destruction on the outskirts of Paris, during the liberation of France from German occupation in the summer of 1944. Dated 20th Century
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Antwerp, Belgium: c. 1914 British Marines in the trenches outside of Antwerp during the German attack on that city.
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Eva Braun's Photo Albums, ca. 1913 - ca. 1944. These albums are attributed to Eva Braun (four are claimed by her friend Herta Schneider, nee Ostermeyer) and document her life from ca. 1913 to 1944. There are many photographs of Eva, her sisters and their children, Herta Schneider and her children, as well as photographs of Eva's vacations, family members and friends. Included also are photographs taken by and of Eva Braun at Hitler's chalet Berghof (or Kehlstein), photographs of Hitler and his entourage, visitors to Berghof and the scenery around Berchtesgaden, and some studio portraits of Eva and members of her family.
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Wrecked Japanese Plane Sent to U.S. Major General T.A. Terry (left), commander of the Second Service Command of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps inspect the remains of a Japanese Zero shot down in the Pacific. Wreckage of hundreds of enemy fighter planes is being sent from Pacific battlefields to the U.S. for reclamation. October 24, 1943.
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Anefo photo collection. Mass grave in Waalsdorp. Mass grave in Waalsdorp. August 1945. The Hague, South Holland
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The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Second Indochina War that began on January 31, 1968. Forces of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF, or Viet Cong), and the People's Army of Vietnam (the North Vietnamese army), fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. The purpose of the offensive was to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government, thus ending the war in a single blow.
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The extraction of corpses from the Bruggwald tunnel, hit by a landslide on June 22, 1909, Switzerland, photo by Argus, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVI, No 28, July 11, 1909.
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Guerra Franco-Prusiana (1870-1871). Sorpresa en una casa. Grabado. Original por Alphonse Marie de Neuville (1835-1885). En Campagne, por Jules Richard. Obra editada en París en 1885. Biblioteca Histórico Militar de Barcelona. Cataluña. España.
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Members of the press interview Marines from the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit during their participation in a multinational peacekeeping operation. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)
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Historic photographs of the Norfolk Naval shipyard located in the Fifth Naval District. Operating under the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy.
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DM-SN-87-12339. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)
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01/31/1916. The Allies in Thessaloniki. Group of Serbian Refugees Busy in the Preliminary Work of the Construction of a Dam.
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Savage Station, Virginia. Union field hospital after the battle of June 27 | Library of Congress
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Girls placing flowers on the graves of those fallen in Cormons on the second anniversary of the war, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 23, June 10, 1917.
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Burying horses, Battlefield of Haelen
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Reporting tjilatjap. Also in Tjilatjap also emerged the shops and homes of the Chinese not to the 'total' war through the TNI led 'totality', however, it turned out to be alone from a total destruction and plundering from other people's own. August 1948. Cilacap, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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They'll Protect Allies From Luftwaffe -- Long lines of 40mm. Bofors light anti-aircraft guns stand nose to nose on a field in Britain awaiting the day of invasion of continental Europe. May 10, 1944. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Nurses' graves at Mars Hospital, France
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Palestine (Israel) disturbances during summer 1936 in Jaffa. Broken glass and debris to impede motor traffic
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Anefo photo collection. Antennaast "Lange Gerrit" from Radio Kootwijk brought down; The hailed mast. March 21, 1980
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TROOP MOVEMENTS Soldiers travel in an armoured train near Frere. Date: 1899
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Salatiga. Holiday DAY II-2 R.V.A .. Skill ride vehicles .. October 8, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga
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Beaufort, South Carolina. 29th Regiment from Connecticut. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , qw09 2022-11r. African Americans, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Booty - War File. August 10, 1943. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited.).
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U.S. Medical corpsmen use ***** -- After American troops captured a reinforced concrete fortification on the beaches if southern France following allied landing on August 15, 1944, a group of U.S. Medical Corpsmen moved in to establish a front line first aid station. September 13, 1944.
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Jack Miller , Foxholes, Soldiers, Miller, Jack, 1924-1948. Jack Miller Collection
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Trasmulas (Granada), December 1908. The royal hunt. HM the King. D. Alfonso XIII after examining the product of the hunt.
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LUBLIN, POLAND--Shoes worn by the millions of men, women and children who marched through the gatess of the annihilation camp. Packed into a storehouse for sorting and salvage, the shoes spill out through the windows and doors of the hut. 9/13/44.
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Fort Capuzzo, border between Libya and Egypt, October 1942. German and Italian flags fly over the fort after its reconquest by Axis troops.
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attraversando l'africa, 1953
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Rescue workers, assisted by members of a United States Marine detachment, survey damages at the Christian College of the Philippines in the aftermath of an earthquake. Base: Cabanatuan City Country: Philippines
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Photograph of 221 Japanese Prisoners of War Aboard Landing Craft. Jap Prisoners of War Transferred to Coast Guard- Manned Troop Transport. A further indication that not all Japanese fight to the death is this bag of 221 Nip prisoners of war. Sprawled on the deck of an LCT (Landing Craft, Tank), they are being brought to a Coast Guard-manned troop transport at Guam for transfer to Pearl Harbor. Thirty of the prisoners were taken at Guam, while the balance were captured at Iwo Jima. Some wounded lie on stretchers. For the most part the prisoners were thin, indicating that even their usual diet of rice and dried fish had been severely cut before their capture.
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Ground crew, loads planes of the German Condor Legion, during the Spanish Civil War.1937
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A splendid feat of railroad construction is now nearing completion in Syria. British, Australian and and South African engineers, supervising an army of over 20,000 laborers of many nationalists, have carried out the the work, which will link the important seaports of Haifa and Tripoli, and give an unbroken connection between Libya, Palestine, Syria and Turkey. About 80 percent of the country traversed by this new link solid rock involving long stretches of tunneling, bridging and solid cutting.An inscription cut into a cliff to record the capture of Damour by the Australian, and of Damascus by Allied troops. August 29, 1942. (Photo by Commonwealth of Australia).
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Department of Air -- Some of the 21,000 rockets harried by RAAF Beaufighters based at Labuan, Borneo, for which there is now no further use. The Beaufighters made the final RAAF offensive in Borneo when 15 of them attacked Kuching airstrip on August 14. August 30, 1945. (Photo by Australian Official Photograph).
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The Army Service Corps on the Western Front, 1914-1918
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Anefo photo collection. First World War. October 9, 1973
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Scottish troops camouflaging a gun position.Many Scottish Regiment are ***** stationed in the desert, in Egypt, among their duties is the strengthening of defences. August 05, 1940. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Tunis Air Field After British Raid -- This view of an air field at Tunis was made from a British reconnaissance plane Nov. 12, The day after at RAF raid on the field. Burned plane at lower right (circled) is identified as an Italian craft, Plane nearest it as another Italian ship with German markings, and the other five as German Junkers Troop Transports. December 13, 1942. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Washington, D.C.: 1932. Camp Marks, one of the encampments built by veterans of the Bonus Expeditionary Force in Washington, D.C.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC occupied Bandoeng area. Sleeping soldier in a broken shot ? House. The walls are on the walls: 'Extremissions Extremissions Pouf-Pouf' and 'Pemoeda's pay attention! Shock troops nearby. Indie Kembalie !! '. 1946. Bandung, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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DN-SN-85-11328. Country: Borneo
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Burying dead at Tchataldja #3
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The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 Grave of Lieutenant A. J. Grant Meek of the Inniskilling Dragoons, died 7 June 1900. Waterval Cemetery.
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Anefo photo collection. Windhoos at Camping Duinoord on Ameland, three deaths and hundreds of injured, large havoc at the campsite. August 11, 1972. Ameland, Friesland
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Personnel from the 32nd Combat Support Hospital prepare to erect an emergency ward tent during an exercise at the 68th Medical Group, Camp Paul Bloomquist. Base: Ziegenberg Country: West Germany (FRG)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Graveyard of the T-Brigade in Semarang. Plaque Red Cross Semarang in the graveyard "Your duty position made our work of charity possible". July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Semarang