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World War II & Korean War Operations

Photographs illustrate soldiers involved in maneuvers, rifle training, and battlefield scenarios in both World War II and the Korean War.

Two German prisoners of war being taken to U.S. 6th Division Prisoner of War Encampment for interrogation and searching, Plouay, France, U.S. Army Signal Corps, August 28, 1944
Two German prisoners of war being taken to U.S. 6th Division Prisoner of War Encampment for interrogation and searching, Plouay, France, U.S. Army Signal Corps, August 28, 1944
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Military personnel take a break to eat during Operation Ocean Venture '82. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '82 Base: Vieques Island State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Pte. Tom Bain of Hobart, Tasmania moves into position with his bazooka during an exercise conducted by D Coy, 3 Bn, RAR. D Coy, supported by New Zealand 25 pounders, Battalion mortars and machine guns, held the banks of the Imjin River, after successfully repelling an 'enemy' attack against their position in Korea. The Company held off the 'enemy' long enough for the rest of the Battalion to man their Kansas line positions. Although this was one of the last exercise in which the Cry will participate prior to their departure for Australia, they turned on a really good show. January 10, 1955. (Photo by Brit Com PR Photo).
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Navy personnel prepare to erect a communications antenna during Operation URGENT FURY. The antenna will be operated by "Spice Island Radio" for the newly established provisional government of Sir Paul Scoon. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Base: Point Salines Country: Grenada (GRD)
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Equipment - A. I. F. - Australian Troops. March 12, 1951.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Beglaarkolonie (Republic). Dutch military doctor examines a strongly disgusted Indonesian. April 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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A paratrooper lands in a drop zone during JUMPFEST '74. Subject Operation/Series: JUMPFEST '74 Base: Hurlburt Field State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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11/30/1936. A dog that, in the section of the Extremadura highway, crossed, injured, to a Republican parapet, and was treated by the troops.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Action of 4-4 battalion hunters in Magetan, East Java. Seized weapons, ammunition and equipment. March 29, 1949. Indonesia, Java, Magetan, Dutch East Indies
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Anefo photo collection. Demonstration with safety belts by the ANWB, chauffe with so-called hip belt. November 10, 1960
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Artwork: "Cadet & Barbed Wire"Artist: Murray Tinkelman. Country: Unknown
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Photograph showing the opening in the roof of the gas chamber at Majdanek Concentration Camp, into which Zyklon-B crystals were poured, 1944. In this picture a Soviet soldier can be seen holding the cover of the opening. Majdanek, near Lublin in Poland, was run as a concentration camp by the Waffen-SS between 1941 and 1944. Although the Germans attempted to destroy the evidence of their atrocities at the camp, there was too much to hide and the Russian army captured much of the camp intact.
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Norwegian Avengers Train in U.S. -- A mentor of the Norwegian Avengers of the U.S. Army leaps a trench during bayonet practice. The unit is stationed at a fort in Minnesota, a Central U.S. State where the cold climate rugged terrain and Scandinavian residents remind the soldiers-in-training of their homeland. March 08, 1943. (Photo by U. S. Office of War Information Photo).
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SSGT Larry Kemp, Company A, 15th Engineer Battalion, carefully places a live M-15 anti-tank mine into position after lifting it from its packing crate at Range 60. Base: Fort Lewis State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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A soldier with helmet and face scamouflage takes a rest. The fabric glasses and the microphone set indicate that the soldier is a crew member (commander, driver, boiler) of an armored vehicle.
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DM-SN-87-01642. Subject Operation/Series: KERNAL BLITZ Base: Poahakuloa Training Area State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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A U.S. Marines reads his mail during off-duty hours at his post in an abandoned building. The Marines were sent to Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)
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US Ranger Goes To British Battle School- Americans Train For Battle in the UK, 1943 US Ranger Corporal Harold Clausen (right) and a British colleague relax and look back over the obstacle course they have just completed at this battle school, somewhere in Britain.
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Anefo photo collection. Marinierskamp Doorn exercises and flame throwers. December 2, 1949. Doorn
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Second World War. Netherlands under German crew. Portrait of a Wehrmachor with steel helmet and rifle (probably at The Hague)
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Members of S Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1ST Marine Division, attach an M-106 high explosive projectile to the rammer-loader on the rear of an 8-inch M-110A2 self-propelled howitzer during Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)
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Mormon farm boy shooting air rifle. Box Elder County, Utah 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Utah , Box Elder County
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Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 Kathleen Spratling, Joan Willis and Betty Borer work on a seaplane float at Slough Training Centre.
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Impression of a diver suit. Is part of object series AVDKM 530305 to 530308.
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A paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division gathers his equipment after a drop at the Sicily drop zone during Exercise NEPTUNE II. Subject Operation/Series: NEPTUNE II Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Return to blitar. Occupation of blitar: after Kepadjen and Wlingi, Dutch troops went to Blitar. These men use a break to eat calm weather. December 22, 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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M. F. Anderson. September 19, 1950.
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STAFF Sergenat Russell Copem, bottom, Private First Class James Allard, center, and Private First Class Donald Ritzer, all members of the 1ST Platoon, Company D, 326th Engineer Battalion (combat), tape steel-cutting charges to a condemned bridge in Dunlop Park. Base: Fort Campbell State: Kentucky (KY) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Italy, Piedmont, a partisan of the sap, 1930-40.
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Broadway comes the European Theatre in World War II, New York
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New Armaments for France. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Western Zone ... Epic Of Staaken -- The Soviet authorities are very touchy and do not want unauthorized persons in their newly aquired territory. They are especially opposed to photographers and all glimpses of the area are obtain from the sector border with tele-optic lenses. Staaken, focal point of all Germany recently, of 5000 inhabitants, is a town that until recently has been under the jurisdiction of the Western Zone, but now finds that it should have been under Russian control all the time. It happened that in 1945 an agreement was made between Russian and Western authorities that Staaken should be controlled by Russian Zone. February 09, 1951. (Photo by International News Photo).
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Shooting with the UZI.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sport exercises Depot Special troops. Instructor in two-fighting. June 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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CAPT. Flo Chesnick, a nurse with the 2nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, fires an M-60 machine gun during the Fourth Annual STAFF Soldiers Cup, a survival test hosted by the 7th Special Operations Squadron. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
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Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; Royal Air Force
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Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Aircrew of No. 83 Squadron RAF pack their rations on the lawn in front of the hangars at Scampton, Lincolnshire, before boarding their Avro Lancasters for a night raid on Bremen.
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DN-SN-88-07109. Base: Clifford Lake State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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SSGT Howard Fine, the small arms trainer on the base, gets assistance from A1C Jose Saraco of the 52nd Security Police Squadron during a refresher course on the breakdown of the M-60 machine gun. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
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Anefo photo collection. Kamp of Angolan liberation movement Fnla in Zaire, members liberation movement in the camp. August 22, 1973. Zaire
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Greek soldier running during combat in the Greek civil War 1948
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DA-SN-85-00889. Country: Unknown
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SGT Arthur Leon, 172nd Light Infantry Brigade, Fort Richardson, Alaska, aims the Redeye/Stinger ground-to-air hand-held Rocket Weapons Simulator. Base: Fort Lewis State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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The chaplain of 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, conducts Easter Mass in the field during Operation CAX 4-81. Subject Operation/Series: CAX 4-81 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard visits Big Ferro, Prince Bernhard is watching cards. September 19, 1973
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A Marine, armed with an M16A1 rifle, stands guard over captured members of the Peoples Revolutionary Army at the Racetrack Landing Zone during Operation URGENT FURY. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Base: Saint Georges Country: Grenada (GRD)
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MGYSGT Vernon Zuleger, non-commissioned officer in charge of the Marine Corps Rifle Team, Weapons Training Battalion, aims his COL .45 pistol during target practice at the Marine Corps Development and Education Command. Base: Marine Corps Base, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Asia. yemen. indigenous warrior. 1967
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JOHN WAYNE in THE GREEN BERETS (1968), directed by JOHN WAYNE and RAY KELLOGG.
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The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 An ATS spotter with binoculars at the anti-aircraft command post. A 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun can be seen in the background.
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Charlie Chaplin "Shoulder Arms" 1918
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Jungleer group at Camp Knight, California , Soldiers, Military bands, United States. Army Ground Forces. Jack Miller Collection