Winter Military Expeditions

Photographs capture activities of soldiers in snow-covered landscapes, highlighting historical military operations and conditions.

Victims of the Douglas C-47, which crashed in Cathedral Valley, Alaska, were carefully wrapped in parachutes and taken to the landing strip for evacuation by air to Cold Bay, Alaska.

1935 Ellsworth Expedition. February 24, 1936.

Wounded transport southern Corvara, 22.12.1915. .

Ministress in the Walde Dolzok. .

German artillery delivery Eastern Zarnowka. .

Inspection of the Infantry Regiment No.14 by Excellence Conrad from Hötzendorf at Feldpost 403.

Bait heads, Kote 2176. Trenched trench. .

Victims of the Douglas C-47, which crashed in Cathedral Valley, Alaska, were carefully wrapped in parachutes and taken to the landing strip for evacuation by air to Cold Bay, Alaska.

Assistance by soldiers during extreme winter conditions in the Biesbosch.

Long-range camera F:300 cm on Col de Bous, photographing enemy positions Trentino, Fassa valley; photographer: Flam.

Support transport on the pichler position.

Homes. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Field Guard at the right wing of Roite back, right Cosmagon. .

Storm course officer group.

19th century vintage photograph - hunters with guns out shooting in the snow, studio composition by William Notman, Canada, c.1880s.

Inspection S.K.H.ERZH.Friedrich in Huszt, Borsa u.Pavalva.

Panorama against the slopes of the field guards on the leased floor, maldatresses. Point: at the lance floor. .

Position Marmolata: Team insiders of "D" position. .

Transport of a 24cm mortar over the Nassfelsstraße. .

Prassniksattel + 1486. Latitrine between wire wire and the castle trench. .

The War In Finland -- Front line trenches quite invisible in the snow-covered forest in the Mannerheim Line. January 18, 1940. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited).

Avalanche Control - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Trenched trench on the small Skorluzzo against the Vitelital.

Kosciuscko - N.S.W. December 8, 1953.

New Jersey - Barnegat. Looking southeast, 50 ft.

Field Watch II on Seikofel. .

First world war, 1915-18.

Trench. Podamia, 13. I. 1916..

Defillation between Vigo and Moena. .

Svegruvan. Jactbyte AV Vildren 1917.

War album 25, picture 6615.

Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting in front of the tent erected at the South Pole, December 16, 1911, photograph by Olav Bjaaland.

Guard at the exit of the ice tunnel; Ortler South Tirol; photographer: Flam.

Testing an infantry gun at the shooting range Villach. General of the cavalry pipe.

Mountain Trailing System Major Hülgerth.Sanity patrol. .

Chaoyang, Manchuria: March, 1933. Troops of the Japanese 6th Division infantry trudge through a foot of snow in zero degeree weather on their way to Chaoyang and then on to Chifeng in Inner Mongolia.

State railways, SJ operating defense men. SJ Operating Defense was formed in 1946 and had the task of protecting important facilities for emergency preparedness and war. The operational defense was closed in 2005.

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Poll photo collection. Tiroler Jägerbataillon 22 - Klosterkaserne. The soldiers posing in the snow. January 1960. Innsbruck, Austria, Tirol

Switzerland Troops & Military General. August 6, 1948. (Photo by Acme Photo).

Ammunition Guard at Brus. .

Handl-Sappeur barracks, background long and flatkofel. SellaGruppe. .

Russian soldiers in the trenches. World War I 1916.

Assistance by soldiers during extreme winter conditions in the Biesbosch.

Snow spaces on the military road in Georgia; Wozenno-Grozinskaja Doroga. Goods Pasistka Poeti Oe Tgor Osowow, after 1st desk. Part of photo album with recordings of sights in Georgia, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Cedars. Lebanese soldiers clearing the road of snow. 1946, Lebanon

Luggauer Alm. Wardrests of the prisoners of war Russenen. .

Interest plate, 10 cm howitzer in the loop.

Rise on the Karniza pierced. Recorded on 25.Vi.1916. .

War album 107, picture 32748.

Triangulation works d.7.Riegsvermessung on the stick.

The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Pictured Canadian volunteer soldiers training on skis. January 1940. Photo Kristoffersson ref 100-12.

Labestation in the camp of Incisa, taken in March 1916.

The sweat grape on the lace mountains. The storage winter 1918-1919.

Photograph showing the sledge team of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition camping on the Level Barrier, on their way to the South Pole, 1911. In December of 1911, Roald Amundsen and four others became the first explorers to reach the South Pole. In the foreground one can see the team's dogs and sledges and in the background, the men and their tent. Date: 1912

State railways, SJ operating defense men. SJ Operating Defense was formed in 1946 and had the task of protecting important facilities for emergency preparedness and war. The operational defense was closed in 2005.

Unveiling of the memorial stone for field march engagement Karl Schneider Freiherr von Arno, sightseeing of the stone.

The main street of Kiandra, NSW. July 19, 1941.

Anefo photo collection. Preparations Tiende Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble (France), military busy with the snow. January 16, 1968. France, Grenoble

Photo collection First World War. German soldiers serving a coastal aircraft. 1914-1918}

Stormyra in Östansjö. Stormyra i Östansjö.

''Dans la meme region, nos alpins skieurs ont ete pourvus de blanches tuniques, couleur de neige, ce qui leur assure au milieu du paysage une invisibilite relative', 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Excellence Conrad v. Hötzendorf with his staff when climbing at Valbonasattel.

Enemy on Kiska.

State railways, SJ operating defense men. Skiing. SJ Operating Defense was formed in 1946 and had the task of protecting important facilities for emergency preparedness and war. The operational defense was closed in 2005.

Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacement At A 410Th Bomb Group Base In France. 22 January 1945.

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The firing of the rockets at Şile

75 high-light projector in high mountain, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 18, April 30, 1916.

Water sledge Column of dogs; probably plateau of Folgaria, Dolomite front, Trentino; photographer: 10. Armeekommando.

Vrsic tip + 1897 lice displacement. .

The Viennese mayor. Richard Weiskirchner and General of the Infantry Josef Roth am Sellajoch.

In anticipation of a gas attack. .

Infantry contactor before shooting. .

British Arctic Air Route Expedition: Snow drifts in front of the hanger at the Base Camp. July 30, 1931. (Photo by Ft. Lt. Cozens, British Arctic Air Route Expedition Photograph).

Oerst Kutschera. .

Gun at the Ortler. .

British Arctic Expedition: Sledge snowed up after a blizzard to a depth of 2ft. November 21, 1934. (Photo by Martin Lindsay).

Petrified dinosaur footprints, cleared of lime deposits and full of water, in the snow capped hills of Arizona, a discovery made by Mr C. L Bernheimer. There are thirty imprints, apparently made by four different animals. Date: 1st Nov 1924

Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. Corporal T A Jackson of Barlow near Bakewell, preparing a cluster of 4.5-inch Reconnaissance Parachute Flares for loading into a Vickers Wellington Mark XIII of No. 69 Squadron RAF at B58/Melsbroek, Belgium, for a night photographic-reconnaissance sortie.

U.S. Troops On Adak Island In Aleutians -- Soldiers at a U.S. Army observation post on Adak Island ***** the Aleutian chain watch an American. Plane winging ***** Kuluk Bay. Adak has been developed in to a strong U.S. base for air attacks on Japanese-held Kiska 244 ***** away. August 29, 1943.

Miners at the Sveag grape in 1921.

A Marine from Marine Service Support Group (MSSG) cleans the top of the stove pipe that extends from the top of his tent while two other Marines look on. The Marines are participating in a joint forces airlift exercise during cold weather training. Country: Norway (NOR)

German troops marching outdoors in winter, taken from a distance late 1930s or early 1940s.

Women Foresters at work. Members of the Womens Forestry Corps engaged in tree-felling. In all parts of the country where timber was obtainable camps of the W.F.C. were established and the women proved themselves thoroughly capable in all branches of woodcraft.

Removing Old Stumps. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

1910s 1920s UNITED STATES COAST GUARD MEN ERECTING BREECHES BUOY LIFE SAVING SYSTEM TO RESCUE PEOPLE FROM WRECKED SHIPS NJ USA

The group of skiers in Formazza. 1931

Beneath the ice on which the crew of the abandoned Endurance camped, the forces of nature were in violent conflict.

Civilian Conservation Corps - Montana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Testing of the 47 mm l / 44 marine cannon next to the shooting site in Villach. .

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